Jim Shella: Attacks on media aren’t new—but this is different
It was a Jim Acosta moment, but I didn’t feel threatened. Times are different now.
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Michael Leppert: America could use an update and a promise
It is all but certain that Mueller’s team has information that the public does not, whether complicating or mitigating for the president.
John McKenzie: Consumers lose if banks win with attacks on credit unions
Raising taxes on credit unions would effectively be increasing taxes on the more than 2 million consumers in Indiana who belong to them.
Tariq Al-Nasir: Why STEM could be the answer to childhood poverty
Now is the perfect time to turn our gaze toward the future and invest in one of the nation’s most undervalued resources, children who are born and grow up at or below poverty guidelines. For the state of Indiana, that is $25,100 for a family of four.
Baron Hill: The country needs Mueller to continue investigating
The political children are at play here. But we need an adult in charge because the stakes are too high for our country.
GREG MORRIS: Time to ship out aggressive panhandlers
The city must take action to fix a problem that threatens the appeal of our downtown.
Marc Lotter: Special prosecutor should wrap up now
Despite the prayers, tears and pleading by the left and the media on cable news, the special counsel and his team of mostly Democratic lawyers and investigators haven’t released any evidence of collusion because, as President Trump has repeatedly said, there was no collusion.
EDITORIAL: CICF’s fight against racism is quest for equal opportunity
The foundation, which controls more than $800 million in charitable assets, is serious enough about confronting racism that it recently altered its mission statement to drive the point home.
Michael Blickman: Yes, the customer can be wrong
Unfortunately, relying on handbook policies and management training is insufficient, particularly in today’s #MeToo environment.
HAHN: Savvy students, families pick colleges with eyes wide open
Funding a college education is an investment and, as with any investment, there should be a positive return.
John Babione: Your company’s first step for managing data privacy
A privacy assessment generally entails a privacy professional’s assessing an organization’s data, including the risks and vulnerabilities related to the company’s collection, storage, handling and disposal of data.
Maggie Phelps: Reading between the lines of feedback
The reality of the feedback we receive is that it’s often incomplete and is almost always filtered. Rarely do we have someone in our lives who will tell it to us straight.
MICKEY MAURER: Fame is fleeting—and justifiably so—for some
Notoriety shouldn’t be confused with quality when it comes to those we hear about most often.
EDITORIAL: Indiana legislative action on bias-crime bill long overdue
Crimes motivated by biases based on race, gender, religion and sexual orientation have broader ramifications on society than similar crimes carried out for other reasons.
MIKE LOPRESTI: These 10 Hoosiers made a mark on baseball
They’re not all in Cooperstown, but these players influenced the game in unique ways.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Aid to farmers reflects interventionist cycle
The government meddles in the free market, with tariffs, and this leads to a problem. This generates another government intervention, the bailout, to clean up the mess generated by the first meddling.
LETTER: Road construction sinks Carmel restaurant
After six years of lower sales and permanently losing an exit from the highway, I will have to call it quits.
JJ Thompson: How the Israelis hacked startup ecosystems
Despite having a land mass smaller than New Jersey, Israel leads the international community in startups and venture capital per capita.
Sheila Kennedy: Why is it so hard to ‘Rethink’ downtown’s interstates?
You can almost hear INDOT personnel muttering, “Those damn city agitators aren’t going to tell us how to move traffic.”
MATTHEW NEFF: Dismiss cryptocurrencies as fad at your own risk
Cryptocurrencies, like other inhabitants of the internet, have the potential to effect a major disruption in money and its regulation, as well as accelerate the velocity of commerce.