Brian Schutt: The Silver Tsunami is putting rural Indiana at risk June 13, 2025 | Brian Schutt So-called Main Street businesses represent 84.8% of total businesses in rural areas and 54.3% of total jobs.
Deborah Daniels: We must draw more students to higher ed, not fewer June 13, 2025 | Deborah Daniels My own college education was invaluable in teaching me to think critically, problem-solve and collaborate.
Rep. Ed DeLaney: Why am I wearing my Harvard hat? I’m a proud grad. June 13, 2025 | Rep. Ed DeLaney / Special to IBJ The White House is doing enormous short-term damage to our universities through its attacks on research and on foreign students.
Karen Celestino-Horseman: A seat on a political bench should be earned with ideas June 13, 2025 | Karen Celestino-Horseman A candidate who stands for nothing … is in serious jeopardy of being exposed for what he is: an actual ‘empty suit.’
Jim Shella: Sen. Ernst is wrong about Medicaid. I personally know. June 13, 2025 | Jim Shella / Special to IBJ [Medicaid] definitely improved the quality of her final years of life.
Dr. Richard Feldman: Reviewing health bills from this legislative session June 13, 2025 | Dr. Richard Feldman A year of wins and losses amid extreme budgetary pressures.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Meals on Wheels supports recovery one meal at a time June 13, 2025 | Claire Fiddian-Green Individuals recovering from substance use disorders often face nutritional deficiencies that can hinder both physical and mental healing.
Lindsay Shipps Haake: Discontinuing summer benefits will leave kids hungry June 13, 2025 | Lindsay Shipps Haake SUN Bucks provides a mere $120 in grocery benefits per eligible school-age child when school is out for summer.
Bill Taft: Here’s how we fill Unigov’s proverbial potholes June 13, 2025 | Bill Taft The outer townships of Indianapolis that once boomed with new development are experiencing many of the challenges of age.
Chris Hancock: To solve housing shortage, address barriers June 13, 2025 | Chris Hancock It’s essential that we address these barriers to ensure safe and affordable housing for all.
Mark Fisher: Housing solutions take a full-court press June 13, 2025 | Mark Fisher Indiana has to build more homes.
Aspen Clemons: Competing in global market requires affordable housing June 13, 2025 | Aspen Clemons In 2024, the jobs that employed the most Hoosiers did not provide average wages that kept up with housing costs.
Gina Miller: Solutions for housing should be multifaceted June 13, 2025 | Gina Miller When stakeholders ask whether we need strategy A, B, C or D—our answer is, ‘Yes.’
WNBA season begins as players look ahead to bigger paydays May 16, 2025 | Daniel Bradley Last October, the WNBA Players’ Association announced it would opt out of the league’s current collective bargaining agreement two years early at the end of this season.
Letter: Federal funding isn’t the answer May 16, 2025 Rep. Carson, please explain why your focus for our schools in this district is “federal funding” rather than improving status quo.
Brad Rateike: I unloaded the dishwasher without being prompted May 9, 2025 | Brad Rateike After having a long-term roommate for nearly 11 years, it might be time to take McRaven’s advice and step it up around the house.
Deborah Daniels: Are the Oscars an example of DEI gone too far? Maybe. May 9, 2025 | Deborah Daniels Might the vast overreaction on the right not have occurred but for the dogmatic insistence on DEI quotas on the left?
Claire Fiddian-Green: A proposed new approach for career advising in Indiana May 9, 2025 | Claire Fiddian-Green The world of work evolves continuously, and the pace has only increased due to the impact of automation and AI.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: The older I get, the more ‘liberal’ I get. May 9, 2025 | Abdul-Hakim Shabazz When I say I’m more free market, that means I am anti-tariff.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: The Pacers, politics and history being made May 9, 2025 | Jennifer Wagner Chartier/ Special to IBJ Lots of people run for office knowing they have very little chance of winning.
