LETTER: Hudnut was about small moments, too
When I was 12 years old, I wrote Mayor Hudnut and asked for a job to buy a bike.
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LETTER: Lawmakers must act to fund infrastructure
According to Conexus Indiana, the state of Indiana needs approximately $1.4 billion in additional state revenue per year for 20 years in order to address all of the infrastructure network improvements needed by 2035.
GUY: Sell all your stock because of the election?
Nothing distorts like an election result. Nothing. Not cataracts. Not broken lenses. Not even a bad photograph.
KENNEDY: Losing Bill Hudnut, a leader with vision
Unlike politicians who see the job of mayor as a low-level “stepping stone” to higher office, Hudnut reveled in being Indianapolis’ mayor. He had a passion for—and an intellectual engagement with—urban policy, and he understood the importance of a vibrant central core.
MORRIS: Nominate a health care hero
This is your chance to honor someone who saved your life or the life of a loved one.
EDITORIAL: Hudnut’s legacy: vision and risk
Hudnut was more than the city’s cheerleader-in-chief in his 16 years on the 25th floor of the City-County Building. He was a visionary who saw great promise in a city whose best years could easily have been behind it.
SKARBECK: State has come long way since its founding in 1816
One can argue that 200 years is the blink of an eye in the transcript of history. It’s remarkable to observe the progress that has transpired in Indiana since statehood was achieved in 1816.
BOHANON & STYRING: Energy can be both clean and abundant
Life was pretty miserable before fossil fuels replaced animal and human muscle power.
KIM: Letting go is a decision you will never regret
There is an actual cost to holding onto things we should let go of. It can come in the form of anger, frustration, resentment or something even worse. Can you really afford to keep paying the bill?
BOHANON & STYRING: Trump’s tax-cutting plan will boost economy
The Law of Demand is a bedrock theorem of economics. Increase the price of something and you get less of it. Decrease the price of something, you get more of it.
URBAN DESIGN: Indianapolis and the rise of the 18-hour city
We’re not one of the Big Six, but Indy is well-positioned among the best of the rest.
DINING: New Mass Ave eatery in former horse livery more than stable
By my estimate, by the year 2055, every third restaurant in Indianapolis will be part of the Cunningham Group.
LOPRESTI: Twin upsets—brought to you by the Scott twins
A Fort Wayne family has outsized role in rim-rattling defeats of Butler, Indiana.
Trump criticism discredits his many supporters
If I am reading Mary Dieter’s column correctly, because of the deplorables voting for the candidate that was not her candidate, she finds it necessary to pull the “woe is me, I am a woman and that is why I cannot get ahead” act [DIETER: Trump win devalues women, minorities and America, Nov. 21]. Her column […]
LETTER: Don Brown cements legacy with donation
The Brown Center for Immunotherapy will be Don Brown’s lasting legacy.
LETTER: Some Chatham Arch residents like proposal
This project is the perfect boundary edge, transitional development. It’s sometimes called “the missing middle.”
SASSO: An open letter to the incoming vice president
May the pronouncements, directives and decisions of the newly elected leadership dispel any apprehension that we are entering a period of fractured trust.
ELSENER: Marian tries new tack in teacher prep
Any drive to improve our nation’s schools and education system begins with understanding why people enter collegiate schools of education, why they want to dedicate their lives to be teachers and leaders, and why, in too many cases, teachers decide to leave their profession.
GIGERICH: Indiana’s talent development conundrum
It is vitally important for public-policy leaders in Indiana to redouble their efforts to support the development of top talent. The state cannot continue to rank in the bottom 20 percent when it comes to educational attainment and industry-recognized credentials.