DVORAK: Make repeal of medical device tax permanent
With the temporary tax suspension, device companies are once again reinvesting in development of the next generation of life-changing medical devices.
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LOU’S VIEWS: Stillness dominates Eiteljorg’s annual ‘Quest for the West’
Most of the work has been sold, but you can through Oct 9 when the collectors collect.
DINING: Rebar Indy rehabs downtown dive near City-County Building
Don’t let the address’ past keep you from visiting this new drinkery near the City-County Building.
LOPRESTI: Follow along on this six-event weekend sports odyssey
From Butler volleyball to Lucas Oil Stadium, with some college football in between.
LETTER: Agents list incomplete
The Bonwell Tanner Group with lead agents Randie Bonwell and Karen Tanner were not featured as one of the top teams in IBJ’s 2015 All-Star Agents list but stats would have ranked it No. 16.
LETTER: Liquor laws aren’t failing
We have made mistakes trying to change liquor laws before, and if we are not careful, we will make mistakes doing so again.
MANISCALO: Do your customers trust your business?
The most significant action a company can take to win customers and build trust is to enhance the humanness of their experience.
MEREDITH: What makes public schools great?
The Every Student Succeeds Act enables states and school districts to tailor the federal law to meet the needs of their community, schools and kids.
EDITORIAL: ITT missteps sowed fate
The Obama administration wasn’t picking on for-profit education companies to be obstinate—it had real concerns that the sector’s expensive diplomas too often left students awash in debt while failing to properly prepare them for gainful employment.
MORRIS: Vote yes for mass transit on Nov. 8
After years of study, the reasons this is needed are numerous and well known.
SKARBECK: Candidates fail to address nation’s financial problems
If you listen to the presidential candidates, you would think there is unlimited money available to cut taxes and spend taxpayer money like a drunken sailor.
BOHANON & STYRING: Taxes are paid by people, not corporations
You’ll never shake hands with any corporation, nor any other non-human entity, that ever paid a dime in taxes. Flesh-and-blood people pay all taxes.
HOOSIER BEACON: James Whitcomb Riley, ‘The Children’s Poet’
Riley, for whom the city’s children’s hospital is named, was a best-selling author of the 1890s.
DINING: Rangeline restaurant shifts to chicken—and pulls it off well
Zeke’s Hot Chicken & Wings stakes a claim in the shadow of a KFC.
LOU’S VIEWS: New anthology of Indiana talent includes John Green, other strong work
Fiction, non-fiction and poetry included in that mix.
LOPRESTI: Do you know your Colts? Try this season-opening quiz and find out
Who knew there was a French horn player and Rhodes Scholar candidate in this group?
LETTER TO EDITOR: Indiana’s lottery preys on Hoosiers’ weaknesses
Some will contend that Indiana finally “got with it” when it amended the Indiana Constitution to allow state-run lotteries, but the financial damage done to Hoosiers least able to afford it can’t be measured.
LETTER TO EDITOR: Tree issue thornier than letter implies
Steve says the proposed business is “an asset to our neighborhood.” That’s an assumption which stands to be proven.
MARSCHALL & LAPPIE: Is Indiana the reddest Midwest state?
Since Indiana is one of the few states with partisan mayoral elections, it provides a test bed for a host of questions regarding the relationship between national and local politics.
KENNEDY: Leadership for ‘no mean city’
The bustling city we inhabit today owes its existence to Richard Lugar, Bill Hudnut and others who were willing to stick their necks out to do the right thing.