Here’s where six General Assembly issues stand at halfway mark
The first half of the legislative session was generally quiet (save an emotional debate about a hate-crimes bill) but that might just be the calm before the storm.
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Top CEOs urge key lawmakers to overhaul bias-crimes legislation
More than 20 CEOs from some of the biggest companies in Indiana sent a letter to top Republican lawmakers Wednesday urging them to restore a list of victim characteristics in bias-crimes legislation being considered by the Indiana General Assembly.
Walmart’s plan to get rid of greeters has disabled workers worried
Walmart, America's largest private employer, is facing a backlash as customers rally around some of the chain's most visible and beloved employees.
Community centers land funds to expand job-training programs
Local Initiatives Support Corp. and the Citi Foundation are providing $700,000 to four local organizations who plan to help 700 workers in Indianapolis find quality jobs.
Letter: Absentee-ballot voters shouldn’t need an excuse
State Rep. Carey Hamilton’s ideas to improve voter access in Indiana are common sense ideas, all well-proven in other states.
Letter: Indiana’s forests are in good hands
The Division of Forestry, staffed by real foresters, has no intention of liquidating our state forests. That would make no sense. The forest products industry gains nothing by lowering hardwood values and cutting away their futures.
Indiana’s kids can’t wait
What if you could give hope to a sick child? Or save a baby’s life? What if you could arrest childhood cancer? These are questions we are posing as Riley Children’s Foundation launches “Be the Hope NOW: The Campaign for Kids.” As one of the nation’s leaders in pediatric medicine, Riley Hospital for Children at […]
Not-for-profits should prepare for volunteers
I read Maggie Phelps’ recent In the Workplace column [Let’s become better-quality volunteers, Jan. 4] with great interest. Although she briefly touched upon a not-for-profit’s responsibility, I do not think she presented the case impartially by looking through the eyes of the volunteer. I have volunteered repeatedly for very worthy causes—from the Pan Am games […]
Tim Cook & Katie Culp: Legislature should learn from New York’s HQ2 flameout
How the New York collapse transpired was unique to that location and those facts, but it provides a meaningful lesson for the Hoosier state.
KENNEDY: Legislators ignore their constituents—again
This is the fourth year Indiana’s legislators have been asked to enact a bias-crimes bill. As proponents have pointed out, ours is one of only five states without such a law. As the business community has testified, the impression that Indiana is a state unfriendly to minorities—an impression that “went viral” during Gov. Mike Pence’s […]
GREG MORRIS: Agbiosciences innovation helps drive state economy
AgriNovus working to help Indiana capitalize on natural strengths.
Indiana on the right path in rethinking tourism approach
Last fall's state-commissioned report on Indiana’s tourism industry was upbeat, declaring “there is no single overt or monstrous problem that needs to be solved within the state’s tourism framework.” That’s the nature of state reports—no one wants to cast aspersions on the gains achieved by managers and rank-and-file employees in the state’s Office of Tourism […]
U.S. economic growth slows to 2.6 percent rate
The current expansion, now in its 10th year, is the second longest in U.S. history. But it has featured the weakest annual growth rates of any recovery in the post-World War II period.
J.C. Penney to close more stores as sales deteriorate
The retailer’s profit tumbled nearly 70 percent and revenue slid 8 percent in the fourth quarter, the most crucial period of the year for retailers who bank on a surge in holiday sales.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Here’s an issue almost everyone can agree on
Americans are more divided on political issues today than at any time since the Civil War. This makes the Feb. 20 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Timbs v. Indiana a breath of fresh air.
Memory Bank: Carving a monument at Crown Hill
Rembrandt “Brandt” Theodore Steele (1870-1965), son of Indiana artist T.C. Steele, worked for the H. Lieber Co., where he drafted and designed furniture, frames and mirrors and did some stone carving. In this photo—believed to have been taken in 1910—Steele is shown working on the Lieber monument at Crown Hill Cemetery. Steele studied architecture and […]
HAHN: Devoting time to financial planning pays off in the end
Everyone needs a financial plan, but not everyone needs a financial adviser. At times, it is OK to go it alone, and other times you could benefit from sound advice from a fiduciary adviser.
MIKE LOPRESTI: This year’s basketball onslaught is prelude to 2020
Next year’s hoops smorgasbord will be unlike anything the city has ever seen.
Look for more tinkering with hate crimes, stadium bills
You can breathe a sigh of relief now. We’ve made it to the midpoint of the 2019 session without serious evidence of bad faith, bad legislation or bad weather ahead. That portends well for an efficient and effective session benefiting all Hoosiers. Until it doesn’t. Yes, typically something does arise in the final third of […]
$50M HHGregg suit attacks insiders for accepting customer deposits to very end
The suit charges that accepting the deposits at a time HHGregg’s tailspin cast doubt on its ability to provide the merchandise saddled the company “with tens of millions of dollars in unwarranted and unnecessary liabilities and recklessly caused the permanent destruction of the company’s value as a going concern.”
