Weary U.S. businesses confront new round of mask mandates
After a largely mask-free summer, it’s a reversal no one wanted to see, brought on by the fast-spreading delta variant and new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
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IBJ Podcast: Climate change could scorch and soak Indiana while reshaping key industries, Purdue center says
Indiana isn’t seeing the intense heat waves and flash-flooding that other parts of the world are experiencing this summer, but models show our winters will dwindle, our summers will have many more days above 95ºF and rainfall will continue to increase.
Colts lock up Darius Leonard with NFL’s richest linebacker contract
The two-time All-Pro agreed on Sunday to a five-year contract extension that tops the five-year, $95.225 million contract Fred Warner recently signed with San Francisco, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
Indiana construction projects boom thanks to new budget plan
The new state budget adopted in April by the Republican-controlled General Assembly is awash in federal coronavirus relief money, allowing the state to give sizeable funding to projects that had for years been shelved and left out of spending plans.
Amazon to mandate masks for all its workers in warehouses
The move follows steps by a slew of other retailers, including Walmart and Target, to mandate masks for their workers.
CDC study finds COVID-19 survivors should still get vaccinated
Friday’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adds to growing laboratory evidence that people who had one bout of COVID-19 get a dramatic boost in virus-fighting immune cells—and a bonus of broader protection against new mutants—when they’re vaccinated.
20 in their Twenties 2021: Mitch Gore
Mitch Gore is a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and a captain with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. He’s currently the youngest elected member of the Indiana General Assembly and just wrapped up his freshman year as a legislator.
Sheila Kennedy: Pandemic is example of when identity politics kills
Tribalism has clearly triumphed over logic. The desire to “own the libs” has proved to be more powerful than self-protection.
Letter: CRT doesn’t belong in public schools
CRT is a Marxist ideology whose intended conclusion is the overthrow of American institutions, using race as the driving force in place of “class” conflict.
Editorial: Indy shows it knows how to use federal rental assistance
If other cities had followed Indy’s lead, perhaps the nation would not be in this moratorium limbo, waiting to see if the extension can withstand a court challenge.
Lesley Weidenbener: Indy Chamber honored for work to bolster equity
The chamber set out to make a business case—along with a moral one—for reducing inequality in the community. That has played out in a number of ways, perhaps most important—at least initially—in educating community and business leaders about the data that supports the premise that Indianapolis is bifurcating along racial and economic lines.
Q&A: Tauhric Brown of CICOA on using data as a home-field advantage
Tauhric Brown, 50, became Lawrence-based CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions’ first Black CEO in January 2020. He’s brokering research partnerships with Stanford University, Eskenazi Health and other organizations to create new efficiencies.
Hot housing market makes for some risky decisions
While selling a house in a hot market might seem easy, there’s actually some risk, uncertainty and often inconvenience on both sides of a transaction.
Indiana buried in unemployment appeals backlog
Indiana has more than 17,000 pending appeals of unemployment-claim denials. Only California, Texas and Virginia—states with much larger populations—have more.
Mickey Kim: Confusing speculating with investing is hazardous to your wealth
Speculators might or might not know anything about an asset but buy it on a hunch or because a celebrity is promoting it or because everybody else is buying it and it’s going up without me (“FOMO”).
Indy firm helps companies navigate shipping tsunami
Cargo Services Inc., an Indianapolis-based international freight forwarder and U.S. logistics provider, helps companies deal with a COVID-fueled convergence of growing consumer demand, a shortage of cargo shipping containers, a crimped supply chain and raging shipping costs.
Bohanon & Curott: Change in U.S. age demographics will reshape labor markets
The one major fact that will shape labor markets: the underlying change in age demographics in the United States, which has little to do with either ideology or government policy.
Cargo jumps a whopping 52% at Indiana’s Burns Harbor port
Indiana’s Lake Michigan port in Burns Harbor has seen a big increase in shipments this year as the global economy rebounds from the pandemic. In June, the port handled a 52% spike in cargo compared with June 2020.
In the workplace: Have a business idea? Survey customers first.
The first step in developing a survey is thinking about your audience.
Memory Bank: Rallying for a baseball team
A crowd of people gathers in July 1985 on Monument Circle for a rally to bring a Major League Baseball franchise to Indianapolis at a time it seemed the league was looking to expand. After the Baltimore Colts moved to the city in the early ’80s and the Indiana Pacers survived the ABA-NBA merger, many […]