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FEIGENBAUM: Even among GOP, compromises are a must

While some governors prefer to hold their legislative-agenda cards close to the vest before bully-pulpit time, Holcomb appears to want to get the legislative train rolling and doesn’t appear to be harboring any major programs announcement for the State of the State speech.

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WOLLEY: Embracing the ‘beloved community’ in the Trump era

After an acrimonious election cycle where large swaths of the voting public were attacked because of their religion, ethnicity, gender or impairments—or were characterized as “deplorables”—I believe there is an appetite for something different in our civic discourse.

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NEFF: Panning for gold: innovation in health care

Business decisions are balancing acts of risk and reward. So to create a flow of business opportunities requires creating a different frame of reference, one that is organizationally tolerated or, ideally, encouraged.

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DAVISON: Bridging the Indy-area workforce gap

For central Indiana talent to fulfill our developing need, the region must bridge the workforce gap. The good news is that work has begun through the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership and its recent initiative, Ascend Indiana.

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Machines keep getting smarter, but they don’t have hearts

Software has started writing poetry, sports stories and business news. IBM’s Watson is co-writing pop hits. Uber has begun deploying self-driving taxis on real city streets and, last month, Amazon delivered its first package by drone to a customer in rural England. Add it up and you quickly realize that Donald Trump’s election isn’t the […]

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Dems may be poised to make party even more extreme

As we enter 2017, the Democratic Party has good reason to be concerned. In Washington, Republicans now control the White House and both houses of Congress. Thirty-three governors are Republicans, and Republicans control both houses of state legislatures in 32 states whereas Democrats control both chambers in just five. Because I am a conservative, I […]

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As Trump inauguration nears, anxiety reigns

The capital has never been more anxious about its own government. The town is suffering pre-traumatic stress disorder. Donald Trump is really going to be president. Finally, there is bipartisan consensus: It’s time to flip out. No one knows what is going to happen, but they know it will be utter chaos and that the […]

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