Bill Taft: Our mayor-centric civic culture needs to be replaced
Indianapolis should adapt its own leadership culture to invest in decentralized and intersecting ‘dense networks’ of engaged residents.
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Bill Taft: Negativity about urban Indy is hurting entire region
Community leaders are advancing important efforts we can get behind.
Bill Taft: City needs to nix barriers to affordable housing
We have everything it takes to make Indianapolis the most attractive place to build homes in the Midwest.
Bill Taft: Foundations helping to offset government funding cuts
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.
Bill Taft: Stagnant Indianapolis faces civic leadership recession
I see a loss of risk-taking leadership in almost every sector of life.
Bill Taft: Building on Indy’s educational abundance
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.
Bill Taft: Here’s how we fill Unigov’s proverbial potholes
The outer townships of Indianapolis that once boomed with new development are experiencing many of the challenges of age.
Bill Taft: Economic development efforts miss smaller areas
Researchers agree that education and quality of life are the two best places to invest funds to turn around shrinking communities.