Kevin Brinegar: Smoking is costly to Hoosiers, companies, communities
Indiana’s smoking prevalence results in tragic individual and family health consequences, including thousands of teens on course to becoming lifelong smokers.
Kevin Brinegar / Special to IBJ
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Kevin Brinegar: Another time debate is not time well spent
For Indiana, a switch from the Eastern time zone would turn our daylight saving time choice to daylight losing time.
Brinegar: Tax plan would drive investments, income growth
Encouraging business investment and accelerating economic growth are always winning strategies. Additional elements of the administration’s proposal bring more benefits for all Hoosier taxpayers.
BRINEGAR: Introducing an extended vision for Indiana
These education initiatives and provocative “we want Indiana to be the best” ideas in numerous policy areas are part of the Indiana Chamber’s Indiana Vision 2025 long-range economic development planning process.
VIEWPOINT: Lack of basic skills hurts competitiveness
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? There is a businesseducation slant to the age-old argument. The business community contends that the state’s colleges and universities are not producing enough graduates to meet their needs. Highereducation advocates, on the other hand, say the qualified graduates are in place, but a lack of jobs within Indiana sends them packing to other states. We’ll leave that argument for another day. There is another major workplacepreparedness issue, however, that is rightfully drawing…