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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.
COUNCIL: A monument to blacks that’s meant for all races
Being the first black reporter at IBJ, the Smithsonian’s new African-American museum spoke to me in a special way. But it can also speak to people of any race—as long as they’re willing to listen.
LOPRESTI: Every sport has its Vinatieri, bless that ageless right leg
Let’s meet others who are the oldest in their sport.
LETTER: Styring forgets the market
In a defined contribution plan, employers generally pick a handful of funds and tell the employee to invest in that group and that alone.
LETTER: Make park the priority
Brownsburg is missing a grand, and rare, opportunity for a new urban park edge along the town’s north entry gateway.
LETTER: East needs higher incomes
The east side already has a plethora of low-income housing and resources.
ROKITA: Feds to blame for ITT collapse
Neither ITT, nor any business, could bear the crushing weight of the decrees issued by unelected activists holed up in some of the federal bureaucracies that have taken over our lives, both corporately and individually.
KENNEDY: Too many Americans don’t vote ‘correctly’
What constitutes a “correct” vote has nothing to do with voting for an objectively superior candidate; instead, casting a “correct” vote means, for purposes of this research, voting for the candidate whose positions are most closely aligned with those of the voter.
MAURER: Stethoscope-clad sleuth still at it
Dr. Eric Prystowsky continues to solve medical mysteries, almost 20 years after this big case.