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.
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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.
Mitch Daniels: Beware of the pandemic of second-guessing
I’m worried about preventing a sickness, one we’ve been through before—much more recently than the last pandemic flu.
MAGGIE PHELPS: Clarity comes in the still chaos of life at home
Companies, just like individuals, are learning hard lessons right now, too, clinging to old ways of doing things while grasping for creative solutions.
EDITORIAL: Federal formula for sending virus aid to states is out of whack
Indiana has the 12th-highest COVID-19 death rate in the United States, but its share of federal money intended to help states battle the pandemic isn’t nearly so high. And that’s a problem. Not just for Indiana but for every state fighting to keep from being overwhelmed by the virus but receiving a disproportionately small share […]
FRAN QUIGLEY: Holcomb team’s warnings to unemployed are inaccurate
Indiana law is clear that unemployed workers are not required to accept offers of employment or reemployment if conditions are not “suitable.”
KEVIN BETZ: Indiana should follow cautious approach of surrounding states
We now have a five-stage tangled web of differing and undefined “capacities” that are all voluntary and admittedly unenforceable and will quickly be seen as entirely optional.
LETTER: State must do more for voters
Considering the current prescription for social distancing, Gov. Holcomb and the IEC should make additional changes to Indiana’s voting rules to protect the health of voters and democracy.
GREG MORRIS: The good and bad of Back on Track plan
Does it get us back to business as quickly as we’d like? No. But the governor and his team are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances.
Garrett Mintz: Your engagement numbers don’t mean anything
Engagement has clearly shown a correlation to greater productivity and workplace happiness, but how accurate is our method for measuring workplace engagement? There are better ways.
Editorial: Bigger firms taking undue heat for receiving paycheck loans
A better target for attack would be Congress, for crafting a program that let so many larger businesses in the door.
Sheila Kennedy: Constitutional tax caps limit governments’ response
When Daniels and the Republicans in the Statehouse told Hoosier voters they were “protecting taxpayers” by putting tax caps in the state’s constitution, objections by mayors and warnings by fiscal and tax policy experts were pooh-poohed. Politics won. Prudent and informed policy lost.
Mark Rosentraub: A hopeful (and realistic) plan for college sports
Going without college sports pales in comparison to the sacrifices made at hospitals every day, but the absence of normalcy weighs on everyone.