Voices from the Industry: What to know about Indiana’s new data protection law
For businesses operating in Indiana or serving Indiana residents, it is a good time to review your current privacy practices and prepare for compliance.
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Katie Jenner: It’s time to end the social media experiment on kids
An entire generation of Hoosier children is bearing the weight of the largest unregulated experiment ever conducted on young minds, and the discussion our state is having today on this issue is long overdue.
Trish Demeter: Lawmakers can encourage advanced power production
It is tough to build new energy projects because businesses view the state’s permitting system as a huge risk. They face patchwork regulations that vary from county to county, long delays in processing applications and arbitrary restrictions when they try to invest in Indiana’s critical energy supply.
Michelle Cirocco: An untapped talent pipeline is hiding behind prison walls
Second-chance hiring is often framed around rehabilitation and social responsibility. While important, that framing obscures the core business logic: In a tight labor market, artificial barriers to employment hurt companies more than candidates.
Ronak Shah: Opt-outs show facilities plan should be scrapped
The transportation plan is popular, simpler and has needed minimal amendment. Let’s give that a shot.
Stephen Goldsmith: Cities must innovate to deliver services better, cheaper
I learned in the 1990s what city leaders need to accept now: Developing innovative ways to deliver government services better, faster and cheaper is essential to improve the quality of life in our communities.
Voices from the Industry: How to save radiology before it breaks
Long viewed as a cornerstone of modern diagnostics, the specialty now faces a convergence of structural pressures that threaten its sustainability.
Jason Bork: How Indiana can compete with coastal life sciences hubs
We already have many of the ingredients to build a life sciences ecosystem that can rival that of the coasts.
Dr. Nasser Hanna: Combating Indiana’s deadliest cancer on multiple fronts
Each year, lung cancer kills more people than colorectal, pancreas and breast cancer—the second-, third- and fourth-leading cancer killers—combined.
Mary Kay Huse: Hoosier state’s passion puts Indiana on volleyball map
The stats and the history are there to warrant Indiana’s place as a premier volleyball community.
Chris Ercoli: Growing Indiana’s economy without raising energy bills
This proposal allows a limited number of very large businesses to buy their electricity from private power providers instead of the utility.
Kelly Karbowicz Riley: Philanthropy helped IPS reach historic graduation rates
Over the past seven years, our supporters have invested more than $25 million in postsecondary readiness initiatives because they believed in what IPS students could achieve when given the right resources and support.
Rep. Alex Burton: As data centers grow, Indiana must lead, not react
I am working to develop a standardized, statewide framework for evaluating data center projects.
Jeffrey Harrison: Investment yields robust water system that benefits all
Citizens has developed a 50-year water resource plan and added more than 50 million gallons of water per day of supply and more than 100 million gallons of water per day of water transfer capacity to our system.
Gary Langston, Vanessa Green Sinders and Andrew Berger: Businesses need lawmakers to act on tort reform now
As we look across the country at a legal system trending anti-business, both in verdicts and unpredictability, we want to restore fairness and balance to our system by modernizing tort law.
Greg Hinz: The Bears’ Indiana feint may be paying off—in Arlington Heights
Suddenly, the Illinois folks are optimistic, almost bubbly about prospects of finalizing an Arlington Heights deal.
Chris Bailey: Progress, partnership and a safer downtown Indy
Violent crime was down nearly 8% in 2025 from the previous year. Property crime dropped almost 10%.
Chuck Magro and Zippy Duvall: Let American farmers contribute to American energy
Passing year-round E15 is a common-sense action Congress can take, right now, to support American farmers, lower prices at the pump and create a brighter future for this country.
Andrew Neal: Why I voted ‘yes’ on school reform recommendations
Doing nothing is not acceptable. The status quo places the greatest burden on families with the least resources.
Rep. Kyle Pierce: Indiana should lead on digital asset innovation
HB 1042 would require several state-administered retirement programs to offer cryptocurrency ETFs as standard investment options, allowing Hoosiers to diversify their portfolios within a regulated framework.