EDITORIAL: No incentives for Indianapolis Power & Light project
That’s the message city officials seem to be sending of late, and it’s a troubling trend for a county tax base that struggles to fund basic services.
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LOPRESTI: Parents of injured basketball star find new meaning for victory
Josh Speidel’s recovery from a serious car accident has been both gut-wrenching and joyful.
KIM: Career wisdom found everywhere, even in trash
Life lessons can be learned in every job, no matter how humble.
STYRING & BOHANON: Don’t give in to politically correct busybodies
Hoosiers should be sensitive to outside criticism. But it is also possible to be oversensitive to outside criticism and to overreact. That can’t be good for our image.
LOU’S VIEWS/DINING: What’s brewing at new dine-in movie theater?
Here’s how the Texas-based Flix, which recently opened its first Indiana location, tweaks the moviegoing mix?
BASILE: Traveling to the top of the world with a visit to Tibet
As we flew from Katmandu to Lhasa, the ancient holy city that serves as Tibet’s capital, we could see Mount Everest in the distance. It is as spectacular as you can imagine.
LOPRESTI: Time to let some air out of the New England Patriots drama
Since when do these words bring moral certainty and swift punishment: “More probable than not?”
Crossroads of America is still the best motto
This may have been the advice [“State slogan might get tossed aside,” May 11] we should have followed before “Honest To Goodness” was ever created by people outside of our state.
Article overlooked Cantor contributions
The IBJ [May 11] article ignores the fact that there would probably be no Glick Eye Institute, or the $30 million of research benefits, except for the work of the Cantors.
Advice for Indianapolis’ next mayor
The next few months will set the tone for a new administration and the city’s future. Based on our time in city and county leadership, we recommend the candidates give attention to the following civic paradoxes
SKARBECK: Shifts in interest rates alter investing dynamics
Interest rates are one of the two most important variables that affect investment results. The other is profitability.
KENNEDY: Puritans, ‘Planting Fathers’ and RFRA
I know Hoosiers are getting tired of postmortems of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act debate, but if we are going to avoid similarly divisive conflicts in the future, it behooves us to debrief, and consider the warring worldviews that generated this one.
BOHANON & STYRING: War on Poverty funds wasted in Baltimore, too
We’ve fought a 50-year War on Poverty with a cornucopia of public dollars. Poverty is winning.
MORRIS: Leading lawyers get their due
The Indiana Lawyer’s 10th annual Leadership in Law awards reward commitment to profession.
Kochs balance debate
Sheila Suess Kennedy’s [May 4] column should have had the headline: “Monied megaphones drown liberal left voices.”
Billboard op-ed misled
As representatives from the advertising industry, we are proud partners with many businesses that seek new opportunities by advertising on digital billboards. We are equally proud of our participation in the public discussion about digital billboards in Marion County.
OSBORNE: Methodist plan opens rare opportunity
Make no mistake about it. The $1 billion transformation of Indiana University Health’s Methodist Hospital campus at West 16th Street and Capitol Avenue will be a big deal. Consolidating University and Methodist hospitals will be the biggest single project on the near-north side in anyone’s memory.
RUSTHOVEN: Legislative session was underrated
From some media coverage of the General Assembly’s 2015 session, one might think nothing happened beyond passage and subsequent clarification of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which—contrary to a fortnight’s hysteria, a fair portion of it posturing and manufactured—paralleled the laws of the federal government and 30 other states (19 by statute and 11 by judicial decision).
Kroger’s onslaught will put Marsh under further siege
Marsh, which has retrenched repeatedly since being acquired by Sun Capital Partners in 2006, now must weather even more competition from Kroger.
DINING: A pair of new eateries add to the SoBro corridor
Dancing Donut and Indy Tacos back 54th between Keystone and the Monon Trail more appetizing.