SMARTT: Health disparities among Amos’ many causes
Before his untimely death, Amos Brown used his media pulpit to raise awareness among minority populations about their elevated risks of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
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McROBBIE: University research never more crucial
With its $300 million Grand Challenges program, Indiana University has joined a growing number of American universities committing major funding to tackling urgent, real-world problems.
KENNEDY: Now comes the hard part–governing
How will mayor-elect Joe Hogsett and the new City-County Council provide even the most basic public services, from public safety to paving streets to picking up trash, in the face of steady erosion of the resources needed to deliver those services?
MORRIS: Downtown no longer good for cars
Bus lanes, parking lanes and bike lanes make stretches of road hazardous for all.
EDITORIAL: Others must fill Amos Brown void
Indiana needs that advocacy to come from a group of black leaders—men and women with diverse thoughts and ideas about solving problems in our communities.
SKARBECK: Wall Street activists’ antics create carnival atmosphere
Reality TV has come to Wall Street. This drama is centered on Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and the players are activist investors led by the self-important Bill Ackman, gobs of other hedge funds and short-sellers.
BOHANON & STYRING: Shed the thought that Social Security is a right
Want to get a group of retirees riled up? Tell them their Social Security benefits are welfare benefits.
Let Carmel pay for road fix
I’m glad the federal government didn’t pay for the Keystone and 96th Street project.
Teaching is a tough gig
Who can pay off college loans on starting salaries of $35,000 with no assurance of ever getting a raise in base pay and little or no financial compensation for achieving advanced degrees?
HUDNUT: Words on leadership from a four-term mayor
I heard many times: “Bill, if you put that tax on, you will never be elected to anything again.” We had to stick to our guns, or give up. Part of leadership is knowing when to stand on principle and when to be flexible.
RUSTHOVEN: Hogsett knows fighting crime is job one
The mayor-elect recognized that “in victory comes enormous responsibility,” identifying the morning after his election the most important one.
MAURER: State must confront death with dignity
Humans get short end of the stick when it comes to deciding when it’s time to go.
EDITORIAL: South-side project good for region
The patience of Greenwood officials to find the best use for the high-profile intersection at Interstate 65 and County Line Road shows an economic-development mind-set that’s bringing renewed prosperity to the county.
LOU’S VIEWS: Prince of prints
IMA shows evolution of artist Gustave Baumann, who specialized in wood block nature prints
DINING: Subito stakes a claim on Cultural Trail
When the Subito sign went up across the street from an otherwise quiet stretch of the Cultural Trail, I expected another inconsequential lunchery. I was wrong.
LOPRESTI: College basketball in Indiana: a statistical point of view
Good, bad and ugly, here are numbers to remember about your favorite Hoosier teams.
KIM: Funds set to distribute year-end lumps of coal
Fund investors endured harrowing plunges in 2015. Absent a year-end rally, returns will be disappointingly modest.
BOHANON & STYRING: Rising entitlements tab requires drastic action
Public finance economists go crazy thinking about federal entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security account for most of the entitlement spending, although Obamacare looms as a future contender.
KRUGMAN: Boring Canadians win—again—by going their own way
When it comes to economic policy, the reputation is undeserved: Canada has surprisingly often been the place where the future happens first.
COLLINS: Japan has eclipsed the U.S. on working women? Really?
Japan now has a higher proportion of working women than we do. I’m trying to get my head around this fact.