NALLI: Progress on mental health, but a ways to go
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately one in five U.S. adults—43.8 million people—experience mental illness in a given year.
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SMITH: Reversing the poverty trend in Indianapolis
Today, more than one-third of Indianapolis children live in poverty, meaning our schools deal daily with the repercussions of kids coming to school hungry and living disorganized lives.
SMULYAN: Why culture matters
For any culture to flourish, there has to be mutual respect and a willingness to consider and debate any point of view.
EDITORIAL: Have faith in our vote
There’s no evidence of widespread fraud subverting the will of the people by changing the outcome of a national election.
KIM: High time to sharpen executive pay clawbacks
There is little agreement on how to make management financially accountable for its actions and decisions.
BOHANON & STYRING: Rewards app makes market, educational sense
Give the students an incentive to turn their cell phones off in class.
LOPRESTI: High school football playoffs started innocently enough
Back in ’73, few imagined basketball’s little brother would become such a spectacle.
DINING: Food carries the day at Punch Bowl Social
The Circle Centre newcomers isn’t just another interactive party palace.
LOU’S VIEWS: Documentaries highlight Heartland Film Festival
Real-life stories outshine fiction films at the Oct. 20-30 cinematic soiree.
High school football playoffs started innocently enough
Did you hear the one about the time the high school football team in Indiana flew to play another high school football team in Indiana? It’s 1973, and football is the little brother in Indiana. There are no Indianapolis Colts. No Lucas Oil Stadium, nor RCA Dome. The high school season is over by early […]
SKARBECK: Buffett’s 1999 speech offers wisdom for today
Speaking in front of newly minted IPO multimillionaires, Buffett’s killjoy speech threw cold water on the long-term outlook for investors.
BOHANON & STYRING: Fed may spur investors to take too much risk
Talk is that this ultra-low interest rate environment is the “new normal.” What are the implications of ultra-low rates effectively forever?
Gov. Bowen’s two terms led to Washington
Otis Bowen, who became the first physician to lead the federal government’s largest department, Health and Human Services, lived a long and rich life that included service as the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and two terms as one of the state’s most popular governors. Bowen was born in 1918 near Rochester, where […]
URBAN DESIGN: Time to imagine a High Line for Indianapolis
City should take bold step of creating an elevated park on downtown rail corridor.
LETTER: For better voting, require civic education
The claim that civic education is “important but insufficient” minimizes the crisis in civic and historical education across K–12 and especially higher education.
HASLER: Indiana is lifting the future of flight
At the Purdue Research Foundation, we’re proud to be part of the statewide network that’s supporting the incredible growth in aerospace businesses we’re seeing today across Indiana.
HOLT: Freight railroads grow economy
Indiana is home to one of the largest rail infrastructures in the nation. Not only do freight railroads deliver the things we depend on each day, but they are also an economic development engine.
MORRIS: Zoo prize finalists are inspiration
This conservation effort and the zoo that sponsors it deserve your support.
EDITORIAL: Candidates for governor need solid power plans
Republic Eric Holcomb and Democrat John Gregg each endorse an “all of the above” energy strategy. But we’d like to see the candidate for governor be more specific about how they’ll move Indiana beyond coal over the long term.