MAURER: If you’re 70, Corporate Challenge is a breeze
In the seniors division, age is your primary competition in this fun-filled community event.
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EDITORIAL: Time for an end to Carmel drama
The implosion of the once-powerful Carmel Redevelopment Commission doesn’t look good in the headlines, but the turmoil has a silver lining. It should end a period in Carmel’s history when fast physical transformation of the town seemed to be leadership’s only concern.
LIBMAN: Great Recession isn’t over for the arts
As we all know, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the worst economic disaster to hit America and the global economy since the Great Depression. While the Great Recession is technically over as measured by economists, millions of Americans are still out of work or have stopped searching for work, and some sectors of the economy have not recovered.
ALTOM: Google makes its analytics tracker less useful
Search giant takes away something business owners have come to rely on.
MORRIS: Make your job easier—don’t be a jerk
Management trainer tells you how you can be nice and effective at the same time.
EDITORIAL: Study water needs while there’s time
Ignoring the future won’t make it go away. And without legislative leadership, Indiana’s future looks dry.
BENNER: Brandon Miller, no stranger to big shots, gets another at Hinkle
Butler’s new coach is smooth under pressure, a quality he’ll need in his dream job.
COTA: Leaving tracks—and erasing them—on the info superhighway
If you visit Amazon.com and put a few items in your cart, those items will be there waiting for you when you come back. Convenient? Yes. Expected? Yes. But it goes beyond that.
DINING: A biggie-size Yats is back on Mass Ave
The menu is familiar, but the space is significantly expanded at Yats’ new Mass Ave digs.
LOU’S VIEW: A pair of trios with DK and the Phoenix
Three choreographers make magic while three couples mine marital misery.
More progress needed for primary care docs
Thank you for [Oct. 21 Morris column] on the shortage of primary care doctors from a patient’s perspective.
KENNEDY: Money doesn’t buy happiness
When my mother told me money can’t buy happiness, she was evidently onto something. Recently, the World Happiness Report recognized Denmark—a cold country with one of those high-tax “socialist, nanny-state” governments—as the happiest nation on Earth.
Skarbeck: Use these financial tables to figure retirement goals
There are two key financial tables that can help you plan for retirement. They can be found on the Internet. With them you can input two simple factors—period invested and interest rate earned—and quickly see how your net worth is affected.
Hicks: Better ways to help minimum-wage workers
Much of the rhetoric about the costs and benefits of the minimum wage is pure bunk. Life as an adult minimum-wage worker is tough, but not because of salaries.
RACE: Historic Maple Road has power to transform city
Bus Rapid Transit could revive 38th Street and the neighborhoods that surround it.
COLLINS: A Ted Cruz on every corner in Texas
Have you noticed how many lawmakers from Texas were doing crazy things during the government shutdown debacle?
SOWELL: Does Yellen portend a return to Keynes?
The nomination of Janet Yellen to become head of the Federal Reserve System has set off a flurry of media stories. The Federal Reserve has become such a major player in the American economy that it needs far more scrutiny and criticism than it has received, regardless of who heads it.
RASMUSSEN: Health care, shutdown merely symptoms
Many reporters caught up in the bizarre world of official Washington have written extensively on political tactics and implications of the so-called government shutdown and disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov. Typical was a New York Times headline that blared “Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics.”
BLOW: Billionaires and welfare lines lengthening
The stock market is hitting record highs. Bank profits are their highest in years. The market for luxury goods is rebounding.
DOUTHAT: But what if Obamacare actually works?
It’s likely that HealthCare.gov will be fixed by Thanksgiving and millions of Americans will (finally) be able to get a real look at what Obamacare is selling them.