Paul Ashley: Benefits renewals could set tone for COVID recovery
For employers, health benefits can seem like a black box even in the best of times. The pandemic made things even more confusing.
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Letter: Light rail ban is shortsighted
Indiana is the only state to ban light rail, a shortsighted mandate directly conflicting with Federal Transit Administration guidelines for technology selection.
Editorial: Cook provides jobs—and an example
Inspired by the protests against racial inequality this summer, the Bloomington-based Cook Medical team began looking for a way to diversify and realized the company could help itself while helping others. And Cook officials want to share their playbook with others.
Sheila Suess Kennedy: Using courts to promote homophobia is so last century
Outgoing Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill wants states to be able to deny married same-sex couples the right to be recognized as parents of their children.
Jim Litten: Fair housing is an issue that all of us must tackle
Homeownership is one of the most valuable opportunities to build wealth, but that opportunity is dependent on access and affordability. Everyone must have equal access to affordable housing and financing in order to participate in the American dream of homeownership.
Letter: Praise for jazz great David Baker
Support Indy JazzFest and The Cabaret! We lost a Great One with David’s passing.
Letter: Common sense for public safety
There needs to be a complete understanding by all citizens that the moment you take the step from peaceful protesting to damaging property or assaulting others that you are now a criminal and will be arrested, regardless of what your cause may be.
EDITORIAL: Lilly seized chance to be leader in global fight against COVID-19
While efforts to create a COVID-19 vaccine have garnered the most headlines, Eli Lilly and Co. turned its attention to another critical need—helping those who contract the disease get better.
RENN: Downtown Indy needs a Purdue research center
Other major research universities in college towns are already making this kind of push into the heart of nearby major cities.
OGDEN: Not-for-profits need your help to continue their vital work
Not-for-profits wouldn’t exist without the tremendous support we receive from local communities. We depend on your time, money and talent.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: The new future with inclusive leadership
A growing belief that diversity is on the rise in the workplace is not enough to proactively and successfully create the ultimate competitive advantages that help businesses pivot, adapt and thrive in “the new future.”
Mary Carney: Rural hospitals struggle to ward off staff shortages
We must find new ways to extend higher education outside of urban-centric areas and support health care access in all communities across the state.
Letter: Look beyond utilities for our energy future
Thousands of ordinary Hoosiers have invested in distributed-energy resources like customer-owned rooftop solar and battery storage. Survey data from Indiana University shows that a majority of Hoosiers want to add solar to their home.
Editorial: Hosting the entire March Madness could be one of city’s great moments
If the city is going to host the tournament, it must do so with a clear-eyed awareness that much work needs to be done—especially downtown, where many restaurants have gone out of business and many buildings are boarded up.
Pete the Planner: Excessive spending will cause pain in long run
@et meaningful financial goals. These goals should bring a great sense of accomplishment, once you achieve them.
Cecil Bohanon & Nick Curott: Taking on Google might do more harm than good
Government officials certainly don’t know the countless and ever-changing details of the market. Nor are they likely to intervene in ways that make markets more efficient. Antitrust
Mandy Haskett: The pitfalls and potential of being feeling creatures who think
Neuroscience and new brain research reveals how critical the recognition of emotion can be to your success or failure—either driving trust and connection or leading to depletion and plummeting productivity.
Editorial: Investigation into police shooting set standard for future incidents
By all accounts, it was an investigation done with integrity, with empathy and with impartiality. And the officials involved appeared to share as much about the evidence as they could within the limits of the law.
Rupal Thanawala: Kamala Harris cracked the code. Can others?
After 244 years, the United States joins the list of countries with a woman in or near its top job. One can wonder why it took so long for America to crack the code, but Harris has done it, becoming the first woman and the first Black Asian American to be elected vice president.
Billie Dragoo-Garcia: The ‘new normal’ is not new—and it’s not going away
As the weather gets colder and COVID cases spike, employees returning to the office before January looks less and less likely. The challenge is how to optimize the opportunities that this transformation has opened and to create innovative changes in the workforce of the future.