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Asians help economies

Your [Oct. 14] editorial encouraging Asian immigration was spot-on. I have been saying for years that the United States, and Indianapolis in particular, should encourage Asians to migrate here.

MADDOX: Five years later, little progress made

For many, the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was the formal commencement of the Great Recession. Within days, we learned that American International Group and Merrill Lynch would be next in line.

RUSTHOVEN: Coats is GOP voice of sanity

In 1957, then-Sen. John Kennedy published “Profiles in Courage,” chronicling stories of senators who (in Kennedy’s rendition) risked careers to do the right thing in the face of political pressure. Eleanor Roosevelt, who thought JFK more a show horse than a work horse, remarked that Kennedy himself needed “less profile and more courage.”

Five tech firms with varied niches are on promising trajectories

Reaching the publicly traded level might not happen for anyone in the next year or two, but Indianapolis has several companies (including Jeff Ready’s Scale Computing) that have hoisted themselves out of the often-shaky startup phases and are ready to take off.

Carmel firm’s bird feeders perched in 2,700 Walmarts

Sisters Jan Long and Chris Mowery had little more than an idea in 1995 when they trekked to Kmart’s corporate headquarters to pitch a product they thought had potential: a recyclable bird feeder their father had designed to promote his plastics business. They left with their first big contract.

Tech deal escalates battle of titans

The CEOs and of four cloud marketing companies–two national and two local–might make Indianapolis into a bridge between two feuding Silicon Valley giants. Or put the city in the middle of an aggressive arms race in one of the tech industry’s hottest markets—cloud marketing.

Kim: Our failures pave way for a lifetime of success

Successful people’s paths are often littered with failures. It isn’t that they are immune to failure; it is how they react to and apply the lessons learned from their failures that ultimately leads to their success.

Hicks: Odds of Affordable Care Act failure keep rising

It is far too early to call the rollout of the Affordable Care Act a failure; most new programs have rocky starts. But this one has most of the signs of inevitable failure. If the situation doesn’t remedy itself quickly, the complete redo of the law will be hastened considerably.

PROXY CORNER: Shoe Carnival Inc.

Evansville-based Shoe Carnival Inc. operates 367 shoe stores in 32 states and Puerto Rico, in addition to selling through its website, shoecarnival.com.

State AG moves to block Ritz’s lawsuit against ed board

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has asked the Marion Circuit Court to dismiss a lawsuit Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed this week against 10 members of the State Board of Education she chairs.

National runners-up come up winners in grad rates

Of the 10 teams that reached the BCS football championship game and the men's and women's basketball Final Four, only one finished with a graduation rate lower than 70 percent in the NCAA's latest report.

Whiteland burglary suspect nabbed

Police on Tuesday arrested a Johnson County man suspected of a burglary spree in Whiteland. Christopher Mars, 27, initially was arrested on a warrant for probation revocation. During a subsequent search of his car and home, officers found numerous items taken during several home and vehicle robberies early Monday or late Sunday. Items recovered included a chainsaw, GPS equipment, an MP3 player and a violin. Mars also was in possession of a controlled substance.