Stricter rules unveiled for brokers giving retirement advice
The action, in rules issued Wednesday by the Labor Department, could shake up how billions of dollars in Americans' retirement investments are handled by brokers.
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Allergan, Pfizer call off proposed record $160B merger
The biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., will stay put thanks to aggressive new Treasury Department rules that succeeded in blocking Pfizer from acquiring rival Allergan and moving to Ireland—on paper—to reduce its tax bill.
OneJet cuts most Indy service as it shifts hub to Pittsburgh
A year after launching in Indianapolis, the niche airline that focuses on corporate customers has shelved local service to all but one of its nonstop destinations.
Roundup: Hill finalist for citizenship award, Coke unveils Indy 500 bottle
The Score comes to you in a new roundup format. Featured is a local merchandising company, the Indy 500’s latest commercial deal and a look at how technology has changed the way the Pacers condition their players. Plus, a look at the cost of attending The Masters.
Local CBRE office loses leader to another real estate firm
The Indianapolis area’s largest commercial real estate brokerage is searching for a new director with the departure of John Merrill to co-lead the local office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP.
NCAA to mull playing 3 women’s finals in same city again
The decision to play the Division I, II and III women’s basketball championships at one site drew praise from coaches and players. The NCAA will evaluate whether it was a one-time thing or something it should do again.
Broad Ripple tech firm gearing up for capital infusion, hiring binge
Fathom Voice, which sells cloud-based phone systems, is close to completing a $4 million fundraising round as it opens a San Francisco office and adds a prominent state official to its executive team.
The (un)Democratic Party’s nominating process
There are two prominent features of the Democratic Party’s presidential selection process that are thoroughly undemocratic and undermine faith in the party: superdelegates (which favor Hillary Clinton) and caucuses (which favor Bernie Sanders). As The New York Times editorial board explained: “Superdelegates are party bigwigs—712 Democratic leaders, legislators, governors and the like. They can vote […]
Democrats’ Supreme Court hypocrisy tiresome
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy. Currently, Democrats are expressing much indignation because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democrats complain, and the media […]
Voters start to recognize Obama’s successes
Like many political junkies, I’ve been spending too much time looking at polls and trying to understand their implications. Can Donald Trump really win his party’s nomination? (Yes.) Can Bernie Sanders? (No.) But that’s not the only things being polled; we’re still getting updates on President Obama’s overall approval. And something striking has happened on […]
Trump does himself no favors with women
You could hear how hard it was for Donald Trump to say the words. “Yeah, it was a mistake,” he said, sounding a bit chastened. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.” I was telling him he lost my sister’s vote when he retweeted a seriously unflattering photo of the […]
MASSON: The U.S. doesn’t need a constitutional convention
While things worked out very well in 1787, there is no particular reason to believe the delegates we would send to a modern convention would have the wisdom of the framers.
DANIELS: Celebrate success but let’s do more for abused women
Since 1996, Coburn Place has provided more than 1,700 people with safe housing for up to two years, along with the critical services they need to become self-sufficient. But there’s a waiting list and more help is needed.
SIDDIQUI: When ideology trumps ideas, Hoosiers don’t win
The roads plan Gov. Mike Pence rejected wasn’t a left-wing idea from the fringe of the Democratic Party but from his own conservative Republican super-majority in the Indiana House.
DIETER: Another abortion column because lawmakers don’t get it
Try being a woman who has a constitutional right to abort a pregnancy and yet is thwarted in every imaginable and ever expanding way by intrusive elected officials who think they know better and should impose their will on her.
SPALDING: Pence should follow example of Georgia governor
When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal was presented with House Bill 757, which has been coined a “religious liberty” bill, he refused to follow what his party expected and wanted him to do. He vetoed it.
Presidential candidates lay groundwork for Indiana
Early voting began Tuesday across Indiana in advance of the May 3 primary election, one in which the state could hold more sway than usual in the presidential races for Democrats and Republicans.
WAGNER: Superdelegates help stop a Trump in Democratic Party
Superdelegates provide stability and a voice of reason—or at least a voice to raise questions about electability and what’s best for the future of the party.
ROOB: Third Bush never had shot among frustrated GOP voters
Both George H.W. and George W. left office unpopular and in bad economic times. The mainstream media had done its work well, pinning the economic and geopolitical situations at the time of their departures to the lapels of Jeb’s brother and his father before him.
BARLOW: The political Twilight Zone that is the 2016 election
One Democratic candidate for president would have been laughed out of the race by past generations and the other is under investigation by the very government she’s trying to lead.