Marshawn Wolley: Black community needs partners in its quest for change
It is too hard being black in this city, and black people are tired.
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Deborah Daniels: After a weekend in crisis, city has huge challenges to confront
The most significant theft that has occurred is not that of liquor or merchandise; the looters, by their actions, are stealing the credibility of the good people peacefully protesting a lengthy history of opportunity denied to people of color and those without means.
Erica Wells: We need proactive leadership, rather than reactive decisions
Decisions are impossible to make when leadership fails to listen to the community; fails to communicate a comprehensive plan; and falls into a reactive, not proactive, stance on protecting our community.
Vop Osili: Riots must shake us out of the status quo
We can and will address the concerns of citizens and business owners grappling with the damage to public and private spaces caused by last weekend’s violence. But we cannot do so without simultaneously wrestling, and besting, the historically tolerated race disparities that lie at the heart of that violence.
Perspectives: How we got here—and what comes next
It’s hard to find words for the horror that is the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, just as it is hard to comprehend how the anger over that death—and too many others—led to so much destruction in downtown Indianapolis. But IBJ asked several community leaders to give it a shot. Here’s what they wrote.
Tony Mason: Why a riot ‘is the language of the unheard’
What we are experiencing in our city, and cities across our country, is the language of pain when people’s spirits are broken and they move beyond hopelessness to outrage.
Nate Feltman: Crimes against innocent people, property cannot be tolerated
We all were taught early that two wrongs don’t make a right. What has happened to our city is inexcusable.
2020 Innovation Issue: How the experts do it
Design thinking is generally described as a five-step process, with specific names for each step. But in reality, the people and companies that use design thinking adapt their own take on it, by combining or breaking out some of the steps or using a more conceptual approach.
Mandy Haskett: Why now is an odd—but perfect—time to hire great talent
This large displacement of human capital has left some of the best and brightest talent in search of their next trail to blaze.
Tom Guevara: Communities need to plan now to rebuild after COVID-19
But drawing on my federal agency experience helping economically distressed areas and now leading an institute helping communities make better economic decisions, here is how leaders can create an economic recovery plan.
Chris Watts: Consumer spending, sales taxes show Indiana’s budget challenge
If sales taxes continue to fall in tandem with income taxes, the results would be crushing for Indiana; we collect more than half our general fund revenue from sales taxes (the 50-state average is about 31%).
Letter: How many Hoosiers will die because of Tyson?
Workers are being forced to choose between their health and a paycheck they need to survive.
EDITORIAL: Pandemic is opportunity to rethink burdensome rules
For as much as government has been chided in some business circles for shutting down the economy—and that certainly has happened—officials have in other ways worked quickly to clear the path for business to innovate and adjust.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Entrepreneurs are best equipped to pull us out of this mess
Epic levels of unemployment and declines in GDP take time to repair, even if we get good news such as better remedies or an effective vaccine. There are at least two reasons why.
Liz Malatestinic: New normal? It’s the evolving normal.
Perhaps the biggest key to making effective plans in all this is flexibility.
Editorial: Delta’s Indy-to-Paris flight is still worth fighting for
The Indianapolis International Airport’s journey back from the coronavirus crisis won’t be complete—and the city and state won’t be made whole—without the return of nonstop service overseas.
Marina Hadjioannou Waters: Communication—with all communities—is critical in a crisis
We must provide as many people as possible access to health and safety information in their primary language. Failure to do so threatens the health of every one of us.
Kenny Blickenstaff: Pandemic helps explode the investment diversification myth
Reality seems to echo Warren Buffett, who famously stated, “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
Letter: IndyGo vitriol is unwarranted
The state law that requires IndyGo to raise private funds is a poison pill promulgated to punish a successful vote.
Letter: See your doctor, but do it safely
At Hancock Health, we believe the key to unlocking patients’ reluctance to seek treatment lies in implementing a robust safety plan.