Pete the Planner: Excessive spending will cause pain in long run
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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.
Letter: Troops defend democracy at home and abroad
Throughout our nation’s history, we have served as an example to other countries seeking the kind of freedoms that we, as Americans, too often take for granted. Veterans, more than anyone else, have made the sacrifices for such freedoms.
Kristen Cooper: Do you practice these tenets of accountability?
Whether you are a powerful CEO, rising up on the corporate ladder, or play on a team, ask yourself if your community finds you to be “accountable.” If yes, cheers to you! If no, you’ve got some work to do.
Sheila Kennedy: America is being penny wise and pound foolish
Despite Donald Trump’s sneering disinclination to help “mismanaged blue cities,” the current state and local government financial crisis is a result of the pandemic, not incompetent governance. And this crisis isn’t limited to Democratic jurisdictions.
Mark Gramelspacher: Calling all manufacturing innovators, big and small
Problem-solving is the heart of innovation. Few people are better problem solvers than those working in manufacturing.
Letter: State chooses economy over health
What will it take (deaths, hospitalization, ICU capacity, etc.) for the governor to decide that Stage 5 is not working. With the incidents rising, consequences will follow!
Santiago Jaramillo: Leaders must talk about—and track—diversity and inclusion
Truly making diversity and inclusion part of your organizational heartbeat is like performing cultural open-heart surgery: It’s serious and the road to recovery is long, but in the end, your organization will be stronger and healthier than before.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Investments in public health are key to addressing racial disparities
As we continue to work together to enable children and adults to return safely to school and work, we must prioritize addressing the underlying factors that have resulted in the racial disparities exposed by the pandemic.
Jim Merritt: State needs multiple power sources to avoid blackouts
An “all of the above” approach should include investments not only in innovative renewable technologies, such as wind and solar, but also in dependable low-cost natural gas, to ensure adequate energy is available when each and every customer goes to turn on the lights.
Letter: Evictions moratorium risks long-term problems
The recently enacted CDC eviction moratorium gives renters a false sense of protection.
EDITORIAL: Vote—not just in presidential contest but in the down-ballot races, too
Learn what you can before you cast your ballot—and don’t stop with the federal races. The future of our communities and our state depends on it.
GREG MORRIS: Health and hunger amid the pandemic
It will take money and a big helping of leadership to win Indy’s battle with food insecurity.
Joe Huffine: Big Indiana companies need to support small businesses
Most startups are successful once they initiate a relationship with a large, local company. That relationship provides a springboard to other sales successes. But too often, our medium and large companies choose vendors, consultants, parts manufacturers, and other service providers that are based in other states.
James Madison: Indiana’s Klan legacy deserving of an honest reckoning
We’ve often embraced a consensus history, one devoid of conflict. A bloody civil war becomes a noble cause. The white supremacy that began in 1619 to build the largest system of forced labor in world history becomes a sidebar with modest significance. Such myths are prerequisites for so-called patriotic history. They comfort us, at least until we understand them as simple propaganda ill-suited to democracy.
Letter: All are to blame for lack of federal assistance
Reasonable people might differ on the details. But reasonable people are elected and appointed to resolve differences on behalf of our country. And there is no debating the many industries—and when we say industries, we’re really talking about people, jobs, families and livelihoods—are suffering.