LETTER: Time for city to tackle poverty
Concentrated poverty in Indianapolis is holding back hundreds of thousands of families from accessing opportunities for upward mobility and will hold us back from continued growth for all.
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LETTER: Take broader look at interstate fix
We need a thorough, independent study of how to transform this crumbling, 50-year-old urban highway system into an economic driver for the entire region.
LETTER: Opioid epidemic hurts manufacturers
One in four job applicants are failing drug tests, which means a large population of people are unable to work.
KRISTIN EILENBERG: Beware, 4 percent of your global revenue is at risk
With 5,000 records breached per minute and malware attacks happening all the time, figuring out how to be GDPR-compliant is just common sense.
SHEILA KENNEDY: INDOT is bureaucratic stone wall we need to scale
Surely, doing it right—learning from mistakes, from the available research and from the experience of cities that have creatively addressed these issues—is worth moving a few stubborn bureaucrats out of their comfort zones.
NATE FELTMAN: Russian corruption in spotlight—again
For a guy who spent much of the 1990s in Moscow, the collusion investigation brings back memories.
EDITORIAL: Small grants, loans can launch a neighborhood renaissance
We commend programs aimed not at subsidizing businesses but helping to give them a small boost to get them going or keep them going.
CHARLOTTE WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Hard skills or soft skills: a chicken-or-the-egg situation
Because employees need expertise to successfully tackle a job, the answer is simple, right? There is, however, a definite twist to the answer.
SKARBECK: A rational approach works, but investing whims lurk
Investing is simple, but it’s not easy.
BOHANON & CUROTT: How a new Seattle tax can work in Indy’s favor
The City Council of Seattle recently passed a controversial tax, and what happened next could be good news for central Indiana’s quest to snag Amazon’s second national headquarters.
Leah McGrath: Invest in new economy to boost middle class
We have the potential to grow businesses right here and to grow our talent pool through education and workforce efforts.
Anne Hathaway: GOP women’s program preparing for next election cycle
The Lugar Series, where I am executive director, was launched in 1990 by Judy Singleton and Teresa Lubbers with the full support of Lugar and the hope of guiding more Republican women to elected office and public service.
Adrianne Slash: Let’s subject candidates to a job interview
Nothing is more motivating to cast your vote than having a candidate you believe in, or one you’re terrified of, on the ballot. But how do you know if a candidate is one or the other?
Gerry Lanosga: Debates must be about candidates, issues and voters
Some ongoing criticism of the debate commission, including here in Forefront, reflected a fundamental lack of understanding about how we work and why we exist.
Ed DeLaney: Two slips offer insight into GOP motivation
Public concern about favoritism is increased when there has been no public testimony, no amendments allowed for the minority, no witnesses, and no public lobbying.
Dana Black: Gaining hope from seven women
Democrats have five women and Republicans have two women running for congress.
Bill Oesterle: Senate campaign piece was anti-Semitic, gay-baiting
I have never seen anything like it in Indiana.
Jennifer Ping: Why I’ve become a Girl Scout again
As a society, we have not placed a high enough value on what Girl Scouts provides for girls the way we have for Boy Scouts for boys.
Deborah Hearn Smith: Boy Scouts’ decision to add girls is all business
It is my belief after more than five decades at all levels, from Brownie to CEO, that a girl’s best interest is served in a single-gender, research-based, outcome-driven organization that values the total girl.
Baron Hill: Fake news or real news: What to believe?
Democracy is sustained by a free and open press. For the president to disparage this institution is to attack the very core of who we are.