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Aspen Clemons: Competing in global market requires affordable housing
In 2024, the jobs that employed the most Hoosiers did not provide average wages that kept up with housing costs.
Gina Miller: Solutions for housing should be multifaceted
When stakeholders ask whether we need strategy A, B, C or D—our answer is, ‘Yes.’
Brad Rateike: I unloaded the dishwasher without being prompted
After having a long-term roommate for nearly 11 years, it might be time to take McRaven’s advice and step it up around the house.
Deborah Daniels: Are the Oscars an example of DEI gone too far? Maybe.
Might the vast overreaction on the right not have occurred but for the dogmatic insistence on DEI quotas on the left?
Claire Fiddian-Green: A proposed new approach for career advising in Indiana
The world of work evolves continuously, and the pace has only increased due to the impact of automation and AI.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: The older I get, the more ‘liberal’ I get.
When I say I’m more free market, that means I am anti-tariff.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: The Pacers, politics and history being made
Lots of people run for office knowing they have very little chance of winning.
George Gemelas: Today I’ll break a trend: Openly thanking a politician
He knows how to level with you, too.
Dr. Richard Feldman: Trump team has little regard for scientific evidence
Our country has entered dangerous waters.
Pierre M. Atlas: Words don’t kill, but rhetoric can incite violence
Such inflammatory and dehumanizing rhetoric is being used to rationalize mass deportations without due process of law.
Karen Celestino-Horseman: The Rule of Law is what makes America great
Today, the challenge being made by the executive branch to the judicial branch is unlike anything this country has experienced before.
Rep. Ed DeLaney: University faculty put in their places. But by whom?
Indiana had a chance to double-down on support for study and research.
Curt Smith: A religious resurgence might be taking place
Springtide Research Institute found a third of 18- to 25-year-olds believe in God, up from a quarter in 2021.
Michael Hicks: Our efficiency killed factory employment
Our factories are eight times more efficient than Chinese factories, and our farms 22 times more efficient than Chinese farms.
U.S. Rep. Erin Houchin: Trump’s tariffs are reviving American manufacturing
This investment is about more than just bicycles. It’s about economic momentum.
Lindsay Shipps Haake: It’s a lonely, lonely Statehouse. Let’s make it better.
The elected officials, the unappreciated staff, the lobbyists—everyone, in my experience—at the Statehouse are welcoming and friendly, but the outcomes are not.
Bill Taft: Economic development efforts miss smaller areas
Researchers agree that education and quality of life are the two best places to invest funds to turn around shrinking communities.
Brian Schutt: Celebrating and elevating High Alpha at 10
Existing for a decade as an organization is an accomplishment in itself. These last 10 years, especially, have presented unique challenges.
Dana Black: This administration should lead with love, not hate
These are the incidents that we know about. What about the ones we don’t know about?