LETTER: Story ignored problems with Clinton candidacy
Simply put, people do not like Hillary Clinton and her campaign was uninspiring.
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CORLEY: Reflect on Wells Fargo for a minute
You must go deep within an organization to assess the alignment of many management and leadership processes and systems that are maintained to form a consistent culture.
RICHARDSON: Go ahead: Talk politics in ‘polite company’
A hallmark of today’s workplace is that employees don’t check their personal selves at the door.
JARAMILLO: Preparing for the workplace of the future
To be successful, we must be hyper-responsive and in tune with our employees’ engagement and how it affects our business outcomes.
KIM: Gifts to 529 college plans will make lasting difference
This holiday season, give the gift of a college education by establishing or making a gift to a young person’s 529 college savings plan account.
BOHANON & STYRING: We’ll soon learn how Trump plans to beef up military
There is necessarily a trade-off between defense/foreign-policy objectives and our willingness to forgo other desirable things to pay for those tanks and troops.
Making sense of the election night shocker
If your social circles are like mine, you spent election night swapping miserable texts. Not all, but many of my friends and family members were outraged, stunned, disgusted and devastated. This is victory for white supremacy, people wrote, for misogyny, nativism and authoritarianism. Those emotional reactions were a fitting first-night response to the greatest political […]
Obama forgot lessons of 2008 revolution
You know how desperate President Barack Obama is—as he contemplates his accomplishments going down the drain at the hands of a man he has total contempt for—when he is willing to do something so against his nature. He tried to persuade Donald Trump. We saw that unicorn glimpsed only fleetingly in the last eight years: […]
Democrats screwed up by ignoring a call for different
We geniuses in the news media spent only the last month telling you how Donald Trump was losing this election. We spent the last year telling you how the Republican Party was unraveling. And here we are, with the Democrats in tatters. You might want to think twice about our Oscar and Super Bowl predictions. […]
DANIELS: Obamacare helps defeat Democrats
Republicans warned in 2010 that a big-government approach based on mandates, excessive regulation and redistribution would be doomed to failure. Yet the Democrats marched on.
MEREDITH: Holcomb should chart new education agenda
As Holcomb readies himself to serve as governor, I urge him to ditch the out-of-touch, failed education policies pushed by his predecessors Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels.
SHEPARD: An opportunity to develop a new generation of leaders
Holcomb declared his ambition to “start moving toward taking Indiana to the next level” and, the not-for-profit being created for transition and inauguration tasks is called Next Level Indiana Inc. A central strategy in achieving this ambition should include empowering cadres of young trailblazers.
IRELAND: Fixing the disconnect between voters, Fourth Estate
Guarded from the thoughts and ideas of the world around them, journalists under-recognized and undervalued populist undercurrents like those of Trump.
SHABAZZ: Looking for Indiana’s next generation of political leaders
This election revealed up-and-coming leaders in both parties in Indiana.
MASSON: Go beyond abstract in politics: Engage in the process
Historically, Hoosiers had a more intimate understanding of government and the electoral process because they were rubbing elbows with it on a regular basis.
BOEHM: Legislative breakthroughs might be possible with Trump
With a Republican president, the congressional majorities may no longer offer knee-jerk opposition to anything that comes from the White House.
SIDDIQUI: Was Trump rhetoric continuation of Obama’s message?
Donald Trump’s coalition was not the same as Barack Obama’s, his language was not inspiring, but he promised the same outcome: The American people are the change and must rise up as a social movement to defeat the party elite.
WAGNER: Turning a painful loss into a teachable moment
Make no mistake: This was a loss but not a failure. Secretary Clinton didn’t win, but she was on the ballot as the first major-party female presidential candidate in American history.
DIETER: Trump win devalues women, minorities and America
I have been told that my daughter and my sisters (blood and otherwise) and I are second-class citizens whose value lies only in physical appearance, child-bearing abilities and servitude.
WOLLEY: White people have problems, too; so let’s work together
Now is the time for policy innovators to develop coalitions based on the social benefit derived from shared interests at the local, state and national level.