Letters to the Editor

The United States is a representative republic, not a democracy, with constitutional limitations on centralized power.

I have asked folks I encounter about their experience with Indiana’s vaccination sites. Everyone praised the sign-up system and the excellent organization at the places where they got their shots.

We are at a “red flag” moment in the evolution of transportation in greater Indianapolis. Either we give our young professionals the transportation options that they expect before they move away or we have an official ceremony and declare ourselves officially married, for better or for worse, to the automobile and massive highway construction expense.

There’s real irony in comments made by Republican Rep. Ben Smaltz about his bill increasing pull-tab gambling limits.

Hoosiers should explore modern monetary theory’s explanations of how our monetary system actually works and how we can be free of self-imposed myths about what we can “afford” to do.

Columnist said 1.6 million workers would be impacted by a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour. It’s more.

The Indiana legislation requires high school seniors to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid—referred to as FAFSA—or have a parent, principal or counselor waive that requirement.

Our government and financial markets need their leaders and members to act with good will and in good faith, to understand their role in upholding and advancing the system, and to hold bad actors accountable.

With downtown residential space supply very limited currently, and with commercial office space experiencing higher than normal vacancy rates (due to both COVID-19 and technological advances), consideration should be given to reusing this space for residential—thus bringing people back downtown on a 24-hour basis.

If the federal government can be trusted with supervising and enforcing environmental law to protect Indiana’s water, why can’t the Republican Party also trust the federal government with overseeing education?

It seems that landlords have all the rights in Indiana.

It is not safe for the community at this time to introduce more patrons into our buildings when new, more contagious virus strains have arrived.

This bill places a fee on carbon at its source, such as an oil well or coal mine, and returns all of the net revenue monthly back to households to pay for the added costs.

Many Hoosier voters don’t know that Indiana’s minimum wage is really $2.13 per hour. That is what waiters and waitresses make at many restaurants in Indiana.

Unity will not be achieved until this country turns back to Judeo-Christian values.

A recent pattern of legislative proposals attacks local control in ways that would slow our economic recovery and risk long-term progress on public safety.

Upon implementation, carbon emissions would drop by 40% over 12 years, while creating more than 2 million jobs, adding $70-plus billion to our GDP and providing a monthly dividend to all U.S. households—all without introducing a single new regulation.

The IBJ is a weekly business journal, not a common daily. Calibrate accordingly.

In Jennifer Wagner’s column [Pandemic offers opportunity to rethink regulations, Forefront, Jan. 15], her choice of licensed professions to compare was interesting. I agree the two professions (real estate agent and cosmetologist) seem, on the surface, to be treated unequally. However, I disagree with her statement that “a sloppy real estate agent is likely to do more long-term damage than crooked bangs.”