WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Dear millennials, we need you
Millennials, rest assured. There is a silver lining in the national shortage of skilled labor. Quite simply, it’s you.
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GUY: Why teacher evaluations don’t work
Using student test scores to measure teachers, and, by extension, their schools, is impossible, irrelevant, misleading, unfriendly and manifestly unfair.
DALTON: A challenge—aging with disabilities
It is expected that, by 2025, approximately 25 percent of individuals receiving developmental disability services will be over age 60.
EDITORIAL: Planets align for near-east side as TWG, others invest in key corridor
What East Washington Street needs more than bricks and mortar is jobs.
KIM: Is new Greek bond deal deja vu all over again?
With bailout support and shackles both expiring next August, I’m afraid we’ve seen this movie before.
BOHANON & STYRING: Solar-panel tariff faces opposition from two sides
The subsidy says we want cheaper solar costs to encourage more solar projects. Tariffs on cheaper imported cells and panels say we want higher-cost solar projects.
LOPRESTI: Try this dirty dozen of college gridiron match-ups
From South Bend to Bloomington and points between, these are the games you won’t want to miss.
URBAN DESIGN: IHPC offers lessons for smart development
The work of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission leads to higher property values and people-focused development.
EDITORIAL: Approve mayor’s balanced budget
Mayor Joe Hogsett has proposed a city budget for 2018 that includes a tiny, projected surplus. It’s another step on a road to the fiscal stability Indianapolis needs to continue growing and thriving.
LETTER: WTTS is no radio rebel
am exactly the target listener they are trying to attract, but can no longer tolerate the saturation airplay of the same John Mellencamp, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and Dave Matthews Band songs played year after year by WTTS.
LETTER: Congressmen didn’t offer health care solutions
Sen. Joe Donnelly and Rep. Trey Hollingsworth’s essays are not solutions, or even suggestions about a direction health care reform might move.
COOPER: Time for tech to confront gender inequality
What women really need leaders in tech to do right now is take principled positions against discrimination. Come out and say that sexism, bro-cultures and pay inequality are not OK.
LENZI: Good design built on integrating, connecting
In the IoT era, design must address the integration of objects, functions and processes at the systems level along with the creative ability to see connections previously unnoticed, and within a business’s economic and technological constraints. This can be taught.
MORRIS: Fair is celebration of state agribusiness
And it was the perfect escape from the insanity playing out in the wider world.
LOPRESTI: As season approaches, tidbits from the NFL media guide
If you start 1-0, history says your chances of making the playoffs are 52.3 percent.
LOU’S VIEWS: Summer movies sans superheroes
While critics and audiences have praised the world-saving superfolk, I opted instead for these flicks.
DINING: Sahm’s gives Nora spot a comfort-food makeover
Sister spot for Big Lug Canteen is an ale house that knows its pizza.
SKARBECK: After scandal, LIBOR begins five-year phaseout
Small changes in the level of LIBOR had significant effects on the profitability of large banks’ loan portfolios. This sowed the seeds of the LIBOR scandal.
BOHANON & STYRING: Eliminate corporate tax in name of transparency
No corporation ever paid a dime in taxes. People, in some capacity, pay all taxes.
Wagner: Litmus tests for political parties are dumb
People can evolve on issues when they talk to each other and learn more not just about what others believe, but why they believe what they do.