A&E Preview: Talking Points
What will be the chatter be in the Indy arts community this fall? These are just some of the topics you are likely to overhear.
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A&E preview: 120+ events you shouldn’t miss this season
Welcome to the 2019/2020 central Indiana arts season. I say that assuming you are an audience member and not one of the thousands of local arts professionals and talented non-pros. Many of those folks have already been hard at work creating and curating what you’ll see on stages and in galleries and experience elsewhere over the coming months.
PETE THE PLANNER: Use bonuses to bolster finances, not to go on a spending spree
Anytime I break down a financial life, I explore three distinct areas. I look for long-term financial stability, midterm financial stability and, you guessed it, short-term financial stability.
HAYLEIGH COLOMBO: Listening will be key to fighting poverty
Reporting on poverty taught me the mantra, “nothing about us without us.” We must listen to those we are trying to help.
Editorial: Lawmakers must tax e-cigarettes to discourage youth vaping
Teens today are getting addicted to nicotine through vaping—without ever having tried a cigarette. And while that may be better than teens becoming addicted to smoking, it’s even better if they never start at all.
Sheila Suess Kennedy: Time to hit pause button on Drake demolition
The bleak transformation of the neighborhood surrounding the ever-expanding Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is one thing; the museum’s total indifference to the significance of Meridian Street and the transit goals of the city is another.
Phil Powell: A sound vision for inclusive economic growth in Indy
The attraction, retention and development of talent determines our region’s prosperity. Enhancing the viability of Indianapolis as a place to live and work is a dominant priority for business and government leaders. It is our best way to compete as a region.
Letter: Doing nothing about guns isn’t an option
Editorials in the Aug. 23 Forefront from State Rep. Jim Lucas and cartoonist Gary Varvel provide disturbing commentary from people who should keep their quills holstered with their guns.
Letter: Atlanta might hold Circle Centre solution
I recently returned from traveling to Atlanta for a long weekend. I was amazingly impressed by the Ponce City Market and how much the city has embraced it as a destination spot to shop, eat and socialize.
Letter: Federal mandates should offend Hoosiers
Speak up and speak out to our government representatives before further damage is done to our economy.
Letter: Balanced budget amendment needed
Government debt problems have led many nations to disaster. Debt can bring an economic crash to America also.
Letter: Not all virtual schools are the same
Virtual schools, like district public and private schools, are not all the same. It is time for policymakers and public communities to recognize that; there are bound to be a few in education who act as if they are above the law.
Kristen Cooper: Is unicorn lust impeding investment in local startups?
Central Indiana is home to dozens of scalable startups that are generating revenue—some are even profitable. They started up their companies to solve a problem, make a positive social impact and make money. While the valuation of the company may never exceed $1 billion, their business model has the recipe to propel the company into generating millions—even tens or hundreds of millions—of dollars.
Memory Bank: Working through the Great Depression
In Indiana, nearly 64,000 men—including the ones in this photo, estimated to have been taken in 1935—worked in 56 Civilian Conservation Corps companies on projects at state forests, game preserves and parks.
Self-funded firms take all the risk, all the rewards
Venture capital is supposed to be the lifeblood of fast-growing tech startups. But a handful of Indianapolis-area companies are defying that widely embraced mindset.
Legislative study committee to debate vaping taxes
With vaping on the rise, Indiana lawmakers are set to launch another debate about whether to impose taxes on e-cigarettes and e-liquids like they do on traditional cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products.
Tim Greeff: Crane naval center helping U.S. play catch-up in hypersonic R&D
The hypersonics focus is part of a larger effort at Crane aimed at prototyping systems to address a range of critical Department of Defense priorities, from machine learning and hypersonics to radiation-hardened microelectronics.
New space race grips Purdue
A deluge of funding has flowed into space research—fueled in part by the emergence of well-heeled companies have built gigantic rockets that are not only state of the art but also vastly cheaper to launch than previous models.
Lilly’s hot-selling Taltz approaching blockbuster status
Last year, Taltz rang up sales of $937.5 million, and doctors are increasingly prescribing it. For the first six months of this year, Taltz recorded $606.3 million in sales, putting it on pace to break the $1 billion threshold, perhaps in the third quarter.
Ousted CEO of Noyes sues investment firm
Mark Damer of Carmel, 62, filed suit against Noyes last month in Hamilton Superior Court. Damer’s complaint says his termination was in violation of the employment agreement he had signed months earlier, and that, after his termination, Noyes denied him access to records related to the Bayley Investment Group.