Many firms based across the country take corporate citizenship seriously. But it’s human nature for executives of those firms to put the best jobs—and to show the greatest corporate engagement—in their headquarters towns.
With the addition of the Paris route, the airport has added 37 nonstop flights since 2014. Each small success has begat a larger one—with perhaps the first big breakthrough coming when United Airlines established nonstop service between Indianapolis and San Francisco in 2014.
The flooding in Houston was exacerbated by decades of decisions—or lack of decisions—about zoning. Let’s not let something similar happen here.
What East Washington Street needs more than bricks and mortar is jobs.
The Veterans Administration’s policy change to discourage the use of not-for-profit agencies serving people who are visually impaired is misguided.
The city of Indianapolis' unusual offer to spend up to $2,000 per displaced Carrier employee deserves careful evaluation to determine its effectiveness.
What we need is reasoned debate by smart people willing to put politics aside to find answers—probably answers that no one will find wholly satisfying but could become the basis of a health care system that is fair and affordable and can change with technology and innovation that is constantly evolving.
The sales tax is a long-established way for state governments to pay for the services their constituents demand—and it’s ridiculous to allow some retailers to skip it.
With the district projecting its high schools will be at only 37 percent capacity in the coming school year, it’s hard to argue IPS should keep all its schools open.
We don’t begrudge Sun for trying to turn a profit. And we acknowledge that Marsh had plenty of problems when Sun scooped it up. But the company—and community—deserved a better steward than Sun.
Indiana should try to boost the state’s anemic population growth and fuel its economy by pulling out all the stops to attract talent, starting with luring Hoosier ex-pats back home.
we understand why Anthem’s board and management made an aggressive bid for increased scale—and we think their reasoning was well-founded. In fact, we welcome the company’s go-for-it mind-set.
State must continue to ‘lean in’ as it works to ensure Indiana can fill thousands of new tech-sector jobs with qualified workers.
Too often, lawmakers ignore what’s in the best interests of consumers. It’s a regrettable vice likely to be on full display next year if legislators honor their promise to tackle a full overhaul of Indiana’s alcohol laws in 2018.
Gov. Eric Holcomb should veto House Bill 1523.
Indianapolis and the Indiana Pacers should hold nothing back in their quest to land the next sports economic-development prize on the horizon: hosting the 2021 NBA All-Star Game.
We encourage the city to be picky in selecting a winning bidder for the Old City Hall, which has been without a permanent use since the Indiana State Museum moved out in 2001.
Whether those students who attend private schools on a state-funded voucher are getting a better education remains a question. And whether those left behind at public schools are harmed by the changes is another.
It’s time for the VA, which has acted responsibly and reasonably up to this point, to pull the plug on its plan to put columbariums on the northern edge of Crown Hill Cemetery and find a new site.
At the top of the list of questionable proposed changes is the idea of subdividing Civic Plaza, which connects ticketing and gate areas, into smaller zones.
