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HENDERSON: Treat temp workers better
January 12, 2013
One of the highest costs to businesses is labor. Direct wages, benefits, vacation pay, pension vesting, health care and employment
legal costs—they all add up.
MoreHENDERSON: If coffee were like gasoline
September 1, 2012
Today, we’re paying what the market will not get upset over, just like the enormous price of coffee, whose bean prices
have also collapsed.
MoreHENDERSON: Don't choose between online tax and estate tax
January 14, 2012
I’ve yet to see an Amazon sign at a Little League playing field, or sponsoring the Girl Scouts.
MoreHENDERSON: Behind the scenery of I-69 opposition
October 29, 2011
Your southern neighbors look at the sheer ugliness of convenience that surrounds Indy-area freeways and say: No way.
MoreHENDERSON: On power players and the future of kids
May 28, 2011
We expect IPS to take its students to the very pillars of academic success after thoroughly hog-tying them. It’s difficult
to find more breathless insanity than this.
MoreHENDERSON: The great school massacre of 2011
February 5, 2011
What a great way to slime our public school education infrastructure: educational vouchers.
MoreHENDERSON: Thinking outside the neurotypical hiring box
October 30, 2010
There’s a screening process we often use in the human resources process that’s meant to identify prospective candidates.
It needs re-thinking.
MoreHENDERSON: On civility and donning the brain bucket
July 3, 2010
Some of the things I was warned as a young man that I should never get into arguments over
were—in no particular order—religion, politics, which hand in a card game wins, and whether there should be a
motorcycle-helmet law.
MoreHENDERSON: The real reasons not to merge utilities
April 10, 2010
Part of the overall utility problem is that lack of government oversight and public policy vision has made Indianapolis one
of the highest-polluting and just plain ugliest cities in the Midwest.
MoreHENDERSON: Indianapolis getting squeezed by suburbs
February 13, 2010
Indianapolis’ successful suburbs are rapidly surrounding the city. More important, tax and cultural shifts
are starting to drain Marion County.
MoreHENDERSON: Airport terminal, one long year later
October 31, 2009
As an all-too-frequent flier, I’ve had a chance to get the full-love experience of the new airport terminal numerous
times in its first year. The summary is that it’s both tolerable, and I have no choice.
MoreHENDERSON: Urban planning is local oxymoron
June 15, 2009
New neighborhood plopped in the middle of former cornfields are a disaster.
MoreDe-manufacturing can save resources
April 20, 2009
An industrywide bar-code identification system should be developed so that component objects used in manufacturing can be
easily devolved and reused.
MoreBarack Obama's new new thing
January 19, 2009
Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local." I watched my sister and even my bookkeeper—who hadn't voted
in decades—cheer
when Barack Obama rose far above John McCain in November. Clearly, there was a mandate and Obama's oratory and messages
seemed to inspire voters across the country.
MoreVIEWPOINT: Contributions to the deflation of your vote
October 6, 2008
Lots of people believe that campaign contributions and the influence that surrounds them are actually bribery. While it's
true that some contributions are made with no strings of any kind attached, still many voters find it difficult to believe
that cam paign contributions don't influence government in favor of the contributor. Others believe it's part of free speech.
I recognize that campaigns need money. How we contribute, however, can amount to bribery and undue influence. Democracy should
be about ideas,...
MoreVIEWPOINT: Indianapolis needs to talk trash
July 21, 2008
Indiana has generous natural resources. I pumped some of those resources out of my sub-basement twice last month, and pulled
some of its finer greenery from my roof and yard as well. The abundance is everywhere, from the farmlands and prairie in the
north, to the farmlands, mines and even oilfields in the south. Drop a seed in most parts of Indiana and, if the neighborhood's
not flooded out, that seed will grow nicely. Ask me about my tomatoes. Don't...
MoreVIEWPOINT: Expect disruptions at midfield terminal
May 26, 2008
What frequent travelers dislike is disruption, and that's in your future if you travel through Indianapolis International
Airport. If you're a frequent traveler like me, you'll need to be patient and learn some new tricks. Due to open late this
fall, the terminal is a huge shift, with its own entrance off Interstate 70. Don't go to the old terminal and look for a route
to the new one, because there isn't a convenient one. The airport parking lots you've...
MoreVIEWPOINT: Indianapolis' utility acne syndrome
March 24, 2008
It took decades of turning a blind eye to get here: Indianapolis has draped itself in utility poles. Walk, ride, jog or drive
to any major street in Indianapolis, with the exceptions of a few designated boulevards, streets and avenues. Take a mental
picture of where you are. Now, with Photoshop in your mind, remove the web of utility poles and wires from that picture and
quickly open your eyes. We're visually strangled by them. Few streets are exempt from...
MoreVIEWPOINT: Why did we allow gambling to seduce us?
December 24, 2007
The money is seductive: an "easy" $1.6 billion. That's what gambling brought to Indiana in taxes this year. The prize might
not be as big in 2008. There's new competition. And a big drop in gambling revenue would spoil the negotiations that all the
nervous Indiana politicians have been doing. Their jobs are on the line, and they know it. Hoosiers are embarrassed. They
don't like that. I have a beautiful picture of two of my children standing inside the...
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.