Mayor Ballard should veto or delay implementation of the proposed 0.05 percent tax to hire 150 police officers until more supporting details are offered: 1. What would these officers do each day? Would they travel our streets in cars, walk new beats or engage in “community policing”? If the latter, would they speak at events, […]
Yes, there have been great moments for voice of hard-luck Hoosier football team.
It is sad to see another piece of Indy history is now a pile of rubble [Sept. 15]. I lived in the Fall Creek area growing up. The homes were made better than anything you can purchase today. The owner should not have bought the property if he did not want to abide by the […]
I’ve been starting my week with the IBJ for 20 years. I just finished reading the [Sept. 29] issue cover to cover. This is the best one ever. Great idea for an issue—fascinating people and stories. I’ll look forward to the 2015 issue! __________ Ruth Lochary, Fishers
Inappropriate, suburban-style projects should be a thing of the past in downtown Indianapolis.
There is power in learning from as many people as you can. IBJ gathered 29 Hoosiers, different in every sense of the word, for its first Interview Issue last week. Collectively, these interviews teach and reinforce many valuable life lessons. Help others. Meet as many people as you can without trying to extract value from […]
Turnout in the recent vote in Scotland over whether to secede from the United Kingdom was reported to be 85 percent. Turnout in the most recent primary election in Ferguson, Mo., was 12 percent. These are undoubtedly the “poles”—the extremes. Yet … Americans seem evenly divided between those working to increase voter turnout—the League of […]
We can learn a thing or two from Music City, just as its leaders learned from us.
Nearly two years have passed since Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter called for creating a “world-class” life sciences research institute in Indianapolis, and now the fledgling Indiana Biosciences Research Institute is on the verge of naming its first leader. That choice of a chief executive, expected before Thanksgiving, will telegraph a critical signal […]
California Public Employees’ Retirement System is dumping its entire hedge fund program. The reason, according to Ted Eliopoulos, the chief investment officer, is “their complexity, cost and lack of ability to scale to CalPERS size.“
Because TIF districts never go away, redevelopment commissions will have many opportunities over the coming centuries to think of multiple uses for their money. To no surprise, this raises many legitimate policy questions.
Recently, financial academics, like Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates, have published white papers supporting a different type of index investing. They call their creation “smart beta.
The cost of luring a firm to town has skyrocketed, while the benefits have plummeted. The United States has created more than 90 million net new jobs over the past 45 years, but fewer “attractable” jobs are available today than in 1969.
Javier’s Hacienda takes over the spot formerly occupied by El Sol. And, yes, the donkey is still there.
A good production needs to treat these familiar characters as people instead of icons and the songs as spontaneous bursts of emotional truth, not as a greatest-hits package.
Those of us interested in reforming public education should urge support from the Democrats on the City-County Council for Mayor Ballard’s preschool funding plan that was delayed recently.
Do Indiana legislators have any kind of collective vision and perspective [Sept. 15]?
As the chief executive officers of the four largest health systems in central Indiana, we understand the dire situation facing hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who lack health insurance.
We live in an age of disinformation. Fox News, MSNBC, CNN. Some are better than others, but not much.
