Category: Post-Tribune Opinion

Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which cover shared resources like buildings, utility bills, computer networks, and support staff. Indiana will lose $69 million this year in critical research funding due to those cuts, devastating science infrastructure across the state. With even deeper science cuts proposed, the future of science is at risk in Indiana, along with the jobs, medical advances, and economic growth it drives.

House Bill 1007 and Senate Bills 423 and 424 would use Indiana’s electric customers as the majority financers of dubious, multibillion-dollar nuclear power schemes called small modular reactors (SMRs).

LGBTQ+ youth need the support of their societies, peers, parents, schools, and physicians. Unfortunately, state law ties my hands – and those of my colleagues – from helping young transgender people receive life-saving health care.

For journalists, critics, and Americans of honor, the price of speaking up will be high and uncomfortable, as high and uncomfortable as looking over the fence at the neighbor’s incessantly barking dog, recognizing his desperation, and resolving to help him. But the price of not speaking up, for you, for the dog, and for the nation, will be even higher.

I think the Portage Police force does a fantastic job, but with Bryan Slatton still “serving and protecting,” I’m afraid his despicable actions give our wonderful city a black eye.

As I see it, Trump didn’t win this election. Disinformation did, demonstrating that the world’s richest men, by funding disinformation, will stop at nothing to end government regulations and taxes, or to defeat democracy itself.

At Indiana University Northwest, nearly half of our Fall 2024 first-year students self-identified as first-generation college students, indicating to us within their family unit, they are the first to pursue a college degree. This number may sound high, but to us, it is the norm and is precisely the type of student IU Northwest aims to serve by enriching their minds, building their confidence and furthering their future.

Non-partisan organizations and voting rights advocates including Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Common Cause Indiana, Count US Indiana, Hoosier Asian American Power, Indiana State Conference of the NAACP, Indiana Conservation Voters, and League of Women Voters of Indiana, as well as attorney William R. Groth, submitted a formal advocacy letter in opposition to the recent request made by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and Secretary of State Diego Morales. The request made to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeks to verify the citizenship status of nearly 600,000 Indiana voters.