ALTOM: Death of paper has been greatly exaggerated
When I was a kid, eager futurists predicted what wonderful technologies we’d all have someday.
Opinion
Articles
DINING: Beyond deep-fried State Fair fare
Reviewer Lou Harry set out this year to find the best of the freshman foods at the Indiana State Fair, with the stipulation that they didn’t emerge from a vat of hot oil.
LOU’S VIEWS: Studio Vonnegut
A new CD combines Kurt Vonnegut’s voice with eclectic music with worthwhile results.
HETRICK: Don’t believe everything people say that American people say
Politicians like to presume national unanimity…usually for their own ends.
BENNER: Why Michael Phelps laps other great Olympic athletes
Thoughts on this, that and the other while watching the world’s athletes.
Benner again misses mark
Once again, Bill Benner [July 30] misses a key point in the NCAA’s handling of Penn State when he applauds the NCAA’s “courage and swift response” in his hypothetical reaction to it being his son subjected to sodomy in the Penn State locker room showers.
AHLRICHS: Embedding strategy in the ranks
Multiple organizations, from St. Vincent Health to Emmis Communications Corp. to Buckingham Cos. to Riley Children’s Foundation, have added a “chief strategy officer” to their ranks.
KENNEDY: Respect the process, and people
One of the things I try to explain to students is the importance of process. This is, of course, a central principle of civil liberties.
MORRIS: Charging for online content makes sense
A business model that provides mostly free digital content can’t continue in the long term.
EDITORIAL: Time to break TIF logjam in Indianapolis
Republican Mayor Greg Ballard’s aides says delayed action on funding proposals could jeopardize pending economic development proposals.
SKARBECK: Does focus on stock prices hurt companies in long run?
A new book, “The Shareholder Value Myth,” by Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, is ruffling feathers in the field of corporate governance.
HICKS: All this clucking over chicken reveals fallacies
The hullabaloo over gay marriage and Chick-fil-A exposes three astonishing falsehoods of modern political economy that distract us from weightier issues.
DINING: Yes, Virginia (Ave.), you have a great new restaurant
First in a month-long series of colorful restaurants. This week: Bluebeard.
Local legislators should lead on transit
A vibrant mass transit system is an essential next step to encourage economic development, improve quality of life and make Indianapolis more inviting.
Design is critical
Even something as mundane as a parking garage can make a first impression to a visitor.
NCAA hit innocents
The NCAA president and executive board overstepped their authority by imposing very harsh penalties on the Penn State football program and by extension on the entire university.
RUSTHOVEN: Daniels laid foundation for Pence
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence is proposing a 10-percent state income tax cut, a growth-spurring step that would benefit more than 90 percent of Hoosier businesses that pay individual income tax, and would give Indiana the lowest combined tax burden in our region.
RACE: Washington Street rife with missed opportunities
Some of Washington Street's vitality can be recovered. An urban design plan for the street would identify a framework of existing and future landmarks, edges, open spaces and gateways.
MAURER: Nursing babies into successful students
Goodwill’s team members concluded that if they were going to effectively reduce generational poverty and reverse these trends, they had to start with babies, especially with first-time mothers in poverty.