This vacant but beautiful building sits ready to host the ceremonial and community functions of local government.
Read MoreWhile urban-rural tension will remain a fact of life for Indiana and its Midwestern neighbors, it also might be obscuring critical shared lessons of collaboration.
Read MoreRichmond’s leaders have expanded their view of economic development beyond industry and workforce
Three schools show how the decentralized nature of charter schools frees them to address a wide variety of contexts.
Let’s use this as an opportunity to improve our neighborhoods and towns.
Indianapolis should adapt its own leadership culture to invest in decentralized and intersecting ‘dense networks’ of engaged residents.
Community leaders are advancing important efforts we can get behind.
We have everything it takes to make Indianapolis the most attractive place to build homes in the Midwest.
While community foundations typically invest their assets in Wall Street stocks and funds, a growing number are expanding their impact by investing their capital into local economic development.
I see a loss of risk-taking leadership in almost every sector of life.
Future economic prosperity will depend on growing and retaining talented people, and the best way to do that is to raise thriving kids who love their city.
The outer townships of Indianapolis that once boomed with new development are experiencing many of the challenges of age.
Researchers agree that education and quality of life are the two best places to invest funds to turn around shrinking communities.
