Letter: Need for term limits is on display
Deep down, my view is that we should fire every single politician in Washington.
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Samantha Julka: An ode to my colleagues, whom I miss so much
What I miss most is actually my people. My sweet, sweet colleagues. The lack of this serendipitous community has left the biggest impact on my body—a hole in my heart.
Editorial: Employers, workers must act responsibly as economy restarts
No one quite knows how this reopening of the economy will go—or, frankly, the best way to make it happen. So business owners must plan carefully, always with an eye to balancing the safety of workers and customers with the need for our economy to get moving again.
Letter: Recalling a different era for newspapers
Our local papers in the 1950s brought you local, state, national and international news—something in very short supply in today’s revised marketplace.
Mitch Daniels: Kids can’t write. Parents, this is your chance to help.
Even in a course fully subscribed by students from our Honors College, a class full of future doctors, business executives, computer engineers and the like, the quality of written expression was almost uniformly—sorry to choose this word—pathetic.
David Barrett: Take advantage of new rules to help employees in crisis
Under the federal government’s national emergency declaration, employers, corporate foundations and public charities have been granted more flexibility to issue financial assistance to employees facing hardship as the result of the pandemic.
Sarah Holsapple: I hate to be the bearer of good news, but …
I know people are under enormous strain and very tough days and weeks are ahead for all of us, but companies should not be afraid to share what they’re doing to help, how they are growing or how they are making life better in their communities. Good news is still important.
Letter: Don’t use Christianity to justify Trump vote
Gary Varvel’s attempt to reconcile his Christian faith with a vote for Trump fails to convince me. It is like claiming that you are a vegetarian, but you eat cheeseburgers every day. The two are not reconcilable.
Letter: Thanks to Walorski
Before the coronavirus crisis began, Indiana’s representatives in Congress, especially Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, showed they were listening to small businesses by pushing for the repeal of the health insurance tax, or HIT.
Editorial: Indiana’s leaders rise to the occasion
Gov. Eric Holcomb and his team took aggressive action early in the crisis and have been steady in their approach to minimizing the human and economic suffering the pandemic is causing.
Santiago Jaramillo: How to support employees as whole people
Resilience is found when people see obstacles as speed bumps rather than insurmountable peaks, and the coach’s role is simply to help his or her people maintain that perspective.
Jennifer Hallowell: How coronavirus pandemic will affect elections
The changes the state is making in the primary due to the coronavirus pandemic might indefinitely alter how we carry out campaigns and conduct elections going forward. Today’s alternative might become tomorrow’s norm.
Letter: Nothing will prevent our deficit fate
Runaway fiat currencies throughout history, like the U.S. dollar today, all end the same: with deflation which may be preceded by hyperinflation.
Add climate progress to recovery plans
Despite the WHO telling us years ago that climate change will exacerbate infectious disease pandemics, these twin threats are now upon us.
Editorial: Make business plans now to leap ahead when pandemic ends
This week we introduced a weekly podcast called “Beyond COVID,” with the goal of helping local companies get to the other side of the coronavirus crisis in a position to thrive.
Mitch Daniels: Scraps of good news amid coronavirus concerns
Across the economy, private and not-for-profit enterprises are going to discover which works of theirs, and which expenditures, are really essential.
Sheila Kennedy: What lessons will we learn from the pandemic?
The most important lesson to be learned by policymakers and plutocrats alike is that fortunate people are secure only when everyone is secure.
Letter: Remember our neighbors in crisis
We’ve been asked as good citizens to prevent the spread of coronavirus by social distancing. Yes—let’s all do our part. But that doesn’t mean you have to close your door—or your mind, or your heart—to friends and neighbors.
VIEWPOINT: Businesses can do more in good times to prepare for the bad
I often tell my children that, if you think you’ve saved enough, it probably still isn’t enough. One big hit can be devastating, and we are clearly in the midst of one today.
EDITORIAL: Having Lilly Endowment on our side is powerful weapon in virus war
The Lilly Endowment has long shown a deep commitment to this city and state, but rarely has it been on display in such a resounding way as during the COVID-19 crisis.