Letter: Varvel cartoons are the best
The Indy Star made a bad mistake letting Gary Varvel go.
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Brian Tabor: Indiana’s hospitals can’t lower costs on their own
Ultimately, the entire health care system must move away from the disease-based paradigm that pays for each medical procedure and instead accelerate models that reward providers for improving outcomes and reducing costs.
Janet McCabe: There’s still time to mitigate dangers of climate change
A new survey by the Environmental Resilience Institute, part of the Grand Challenges program at Indiana University, shows Hoosiers are aware of climate change and care. Seventy-five percent support efforts to address its impact. And 65 percent are more concerned about climate change than they were five years ago.
Liz Malatestinic: Addressing mental health in the workplace is good for all
Most employers struggle with how to handle mental health problems in the workplace. Many simply avoid addressing the issue, considering it one of those personal matters in which they shouldn’t get involved. But it’s a business issue that impacts productivity, morale and sometimes even safety.
MARY BETH SCHNEIDER: The end of an era? It doesn’t have to be.
There’s no question we are in a political black hole. But if every politician praising the late Sens. Dick Lugar and Birch Bayh this week would pay more than lip service to their example, there would be light at the end of our tunnel.
MIKE LOPRESTI: Previewing the Colts, with a little help from The Beatles
What else for the team owned by the guy who just bought John Lennon’s piano?
Sheri Fella: Growing leadership like we grow a garden
Ground-making takes courage, vulnerability and commitment. It is hard work in messy spaces. I was reminded of just how messy during my 2-1/2-day experience with Brene Brown, a social work researcher who speaks and writes about vulnerability and shame.
HAHN: Our uncertain life spans make financial planning tougher
My clients and I spend a lot of time working on the balancing act of spending enough while they are healthy vs. saving for the possibility of living longer.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Beware of gloomy predictions, economic or otherwise
Where do dire prognosticators go wrong? We think it comes from seeing the world economy as a zero sum-game.
Ed Feigenbaum: Fresh faces led to a less stressful legislative session
So what made this session—which, from the outside at least, looked much like sessions of the past—more enjoyable for lawmakers?
Letter: ‘Inclusive City’ full of great ideas
CEO Brian Payne, an extraordinary visionary, has more great ideas, creative- and coalition-building talent than any politician on the horizon.
Letter: Investor bullish on Midtown Carmel
What’s special about Carmel, and Midtown in particular, is that it illustrates the transformative power of cohesive mixed-use redevelopments in suburban settings.
Steve Goldsmith: Lugar’s lessons for politicians of today and tomorrow
More politicians should study the legacy of this great statesman. I hope it will play a part in the renaissance of thoughtful, reasoned political debate and bipartisan governance.
Sheila Suess Kennedy: Can partisans game the system? We’re about to find out
The census is supposed to count “heads”—the number of people in a given area. There is no use of census data that requires knowing how many of those residents are citizens.
NATE FELTMAN: Lugar’s legacy lives on in those he mentored
Civic engagement and good character are important values from which he never strayed.
Lugar’s less-partisan approach should guide public discourse
Richard Lugar, the former mayor of Indianapolis and six-term U.S. senator who died April 28, set so many good examples for us to follow that it’s impossible to address them all in one place. But we hope the tributes and recollections that have poured forth since his passing impart some lessons that will stick. Lugar […]
MICKEY MAURER: Here’s a tale of two heroes
Sen. Richard Lugar comes face to face with with a grateful constituent who emigrated from Ukraine.
MARY BETH SCHNEIDER: The grade for this year’s legislative session? Incomplete.
In the end, there were good things that happened during the 2019 legislative session, and things that are good because they didn’t happen. But there also is too much money unspent and too many needs unmet.
Ed Feigenbaum: Lawmakers plod along in era of rapid change
While the General Assembly filled some holes in the law discovered by the increasing use of such services as Airbnb, rental scooters and peer-to-peer vehicle sharing, nothing was done to examine the framework behind some of these popular new concepts.
MIKE LOPRESTI: A primer on the art of stadium naming
What will we call the fieldhouse after the Bankers Life moniker disappears this summer?