SKARBECK: Investors can participate in new era of space travel
America is embarking on the next great era of space exploration, and investors in both private and public companies will play a big role.
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BOHANON & STYRING: Temptation to cheat dooms price-fixing schemes
The Saudis et al. tried to reinvigorate the OPEC cartel, which has been nearly destroyed by new U.S. hydraulic fracturing technology. It didn’t work.
Maurer’s Pence column may change few minds
The joy of owning the IBJ must reside in your being given the every-other-week opportunity to write what you think, sensing somewhere out there someone will listen … someone will care … someone will come to your point of view.
Labor costs don’t doom manufacturing in U.S.
If you can become more efficient in other ways, you can make up for the higher labor cost, especially if you have products that are expensive to ship from other countries.
GUNDERMAN: How nourishing is your reading diet?
What was the last influential book you read? For too many Hoosier leaders, the answer is a title from the bookstore’s business or self-help sections.
RICHARDSON: Less talk, more action on culture
I’m going to jump out the window if I hear another person say, “Our culture sucks because HR is not getting it right.”
MAURER: Don Davis was a character—and friend
The consummate pitchman, gun seller had some opinions that might surprise you.
EDITORIAL: Pence’s stubborn energy stance ill-serves state
Indiana should tackle the problem on its own, rather than letting federal regulators tell it what to do.
LOU’S VIEWS: Snout and about for a day at Fair Oaks Farms
As its slate of offerings grew, I became more curious about what’s going on beyond the cheese shop.
DINING: Indiana Avenue spot gets 2-story tequila/taco bar
A restaurant trouble spot gets another shot at success as Corner Cantina takes over the two-story, balconied spot that once housed Zing and New Orleans on the Avenue.
LOPRESTI: State’s toughest sectional could take toll on entire tourney
Ranked No. 21 in the state, Warren Central is the weakest link in powerhouse field set to play at Tech.
KIM: Map to financial freedom can fit on an index card
Instead of being a calm, careful financial steward following a plan, do you find yourself constantly fretting about money and getting caught up in a losing game of financial Whac-A-Mole? If so, you’re not alone.
BOHANON & STYRING: Venezuela offers lessons in dangers of inflation
inflation is a sustained and persistent increase in the general level of prices. In the United States, we don’t have much inflation right now, but, historically, governments have conjured up inflation as a way to raise revenue and repudiate debts.
LOPRESTI: Butler’s Academic All-Americans tell their stories
Butler’s success off the basketball court over the last 10 years is unrivaled in Division I.
DINING: Omoni is Korean on the quick
A popularizer rather than a trailblazer, the new Carmel eatery brings sincere if not particularly creative pleasure with minimal risk.
LOU’S VIEWS: The Phoenix’s ‘Pulp’ plunders P.I. cliches
An opening filmed credit sequence, a rotating set that kept the action moving, and atmospheric lighting enhanced this lark of a play.
Roads legislation unfair to northwest Indiana
Northwest Indiana residents are being asked to carry a special burden yet again and once again be denied their fair share of road funding.
VIEWPOINT: TIF study is ‘deeply flawed’
One unfortunate consequence of the Ball State University report is its potential to hurt Indiana’s economic development efforts.
Trump: How did we get to this point?
How did a major political party produce not only “The Donald” but a whole crop of presidential candidates unable to do anything but ape him?
MORRIS: You can go back (to school)
Indiana wisely encourages Hoosiers to finish their college degrees.