Mom goes viral with son's phone code of conduct

Janell Burley Hofmann honored her 13-year-old son's "maturity and growth" at Christmas with his first iPhone, but it came with strings attached.

A paint-by-numbers portrait of changing nation

WASHINGTON | We're heavier in pounds and hotter by degrees than Americans of old. We're starting to snub our noses at distant suburbs after generations of burbs in our blood. Our roads and bridges are a mess. There are many more poor, and that's almost sure to get worse.

BRIAN HOWEY: By any measure, our leaders are failing us

We live in in perhaps the wealthiest and most influential country in the history of civilization.

YOUNG VOICES: Facebook is revolutionizing how people socialize

Mark Zuckerberg revolutionized the world with a singular dot com site. His invention has taken over people's daily lives. Slowly but surely, Facebook has grown into an Internet commodity that individuals can't live without. While on other websites, you can "like" a product, "share" an articl…

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Set expectations, monitor teens using social media

While none of us would want to turn the clock back on what technology has to offer, serious ethical and moral issues have risen with technology use in society. Everyone is scrambling on how to handle the misuse of technology.

EDITORIAL: Rethink periods for youth sentencing

Indiana officials went into this year's session of the Indiana General Assembly with a solid proposal for comprehensive sentencing reform. It is unfortunate that the plan died in the partisan free-for-all.

BRIAN HOWEY: Are there mayoral killing fields this year?

In 2006, Hoosier voters threw out three sitting congressmen. A year later, 15 incumbent mayors were defeated in the November general election as an aching symptom to the property tax crisis. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election since 1…

Politicians, pundits seek success in the negative

"Shove it, buddy!" liberal talk show host Ed Schultz yelled at a caller to his radio program. When conservative pundit Glenn Beck decided to end a call to his own show, he shouted, "Get off my phone!"