ALTOM: Online games find favor among hiring managers
The pastime of many a millennial turns out to be a good predictor of future job performance.
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Leaders: Be consistent
Let’s make the rules the same for all issues, not just the ones pushed by a small, vocal minority.
YORK: Indy doesn’t shrink from ‘ambitious’
We have seen what this city can do when it pulls together, focuses on a big goal, and works hard to make it happen.
KENNEDY: Goodbye and good riddance
State and local corruption flourishes as coverage evaporates; nationally, bought-and-paid-for Congressmen and Senators pass legislation benefitting their donors and patrons at the expense of other Americans.
MORRIS: Looking forward to a promising 2014
The good feelings started for me a little late this year, but I finally got into the Christmas spirit a few days before the holiday.
EDITORIAL: Simon gifts to make big mark on region
It’s hard to overstate the importance of generous benefactors to the quality of life of this region.
LOU’S VIEWS: Lou Harry’s year-end A&E bests
The Eiteljorg Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis all get props in IBJ art critic Lou Harry's recap of 2013.
LOPRESTI: New Year’s Eve brings real break from past at Butler
This won’t be your garden variety New Year’s Eve. The ball drops at 7:30 p.m., not midnight, and it’ll be orange. This Auld Lang Syne comes with 3-pointers.
BASILE: Visiting Vegas (while steering clear of the tempting slots)
A beyond-high end car dealership? A mobster museum? On a recent trip to Sin City, I experienced another side of Vegas.
Skarbeck: Market has way of looking beyond today’s headlines
The stock market has a remarkably perceptive ability to see past inconsequential issues that sometimes dominate the investment environment and instead peer ahead into the future.
Hicks: Fed’s easing plan barely makes an impact
The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to ease efforts to stimulate the economy were widely expected. What was unexpected about the announcement was just how minimal the changes were.
DINING: Carmel adds Mex to Main Street mix
Review of Agave Bar & Grill. Fourth in a month-long series of new-in-2013 restaurants that we hadn’t previously reviewed.
LOU’S VIEWS: Hefty books weigh in on Columbus and Crown Hill
Reinforced coffee-table legs might be required if you are giving these impressive Indiana-focused books
HETRICK: After 50 years of silence, a wish list for St. Nicholas
You might not remember me. Last time I wrote, I probably requested a Johnny Seven O.M.A., a “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” gun set or a Monkees album.
LOPRESTI: Visions of home-court advantage dance in our heads
It will be like Christmas in Spring if the Pacers get an Eastern Conference Finals rematch with Heat.
Indiana thinks too small
In “State reaches expansion deal with 7 companies,” we’re told of plans for one company to add 65 jobs by 2016 and another 62 jobs. Meanwhile both the national and Indiana unemployment rates hover around 8 percent, double what was once considered normal in the U.S.
PERRAS: A lump of coal from the state’s high court
If you’re a natural-gas customer in Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court last week delivered a costly blow to your pocketbook.
RUSTHOVEN: The media misunderstands tax cuts
Gov. Mike Pence just “outlined an aggressive agenda to bolster education and job initiatives along with a proposal to eliminate the business personal property tax.” The words are from Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute President John Ketzenberger, longtime journalist and longtime friend.
KIM: New financial bet involves tickets to Super Bowl
Do you think the Indianapolis Colts will play in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2? Would you love to join them, but don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars and multiples of face value on StubHub? You can purchase an option granting you the right to purchase a ticket to the Super Bowl at face value, if the Colts qualify.
MAURER: Wanted: chubby guy with white beard
Claus is known to drink too much eggnog and overwork and underpay his poor elves.