Hale Crumley: Fair housing statutes need to be expanded
The Fair Housing Act made significant strides toward rooting out long-standing discriminatory housing policies and practices. But some discrimination is still perfectly lawful.
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Jason Shelley: Let’s encourage kids to explore a career in architecture
A pathway to an architecture career exists right here in Indiana. Several universities—Indiana University, Ball State University, Notre Dame University—offer nationally recognized programs with internships and job placement services. Indiana’s architecture firms work locally, nationally and internationally, leaving a worldwide legacy.
Letters: Addressing teen violence starts at home
Bad behavior on the part of young people and being disrespectful is a problem that starts in the home. It’s the parents’ responsibility to correct that behavior when they see any semblance of it from their kids—be it at home, in school or in public.
Vince Wong: Indiana is poised to extend its leadership in life sciences
The four pillars of our state’s new life sciences strategy—fostering R&D and innovation, enhancing Indiana’s manufacturing ecosystem, boosting the state’s life sciences talent and workforce, and supporting connections and outreach—will help Indiana attract and retain new investments and top talent, enabling the state to solidify and extend our leadership.
Derek Schultz: A quiet evolution?
If you look deeper and more closely examine what Ballard’s done to this point, you’ll see he is quietly evolving and venturing off the usual script.
Nate Feltman: Why IBJ has named an award for Mickey Maurer
Significant to the naming of this award, Mickey brought IBJ Media back under local ownership when he and partner Bob Schloss purchased the company back in 1990. He understood the importance of a local news organization, with local owners who are engaged in their community and take great care in producing factual and balanced reporting.
Jess Carter: Data-driven leadership starts with a fearless vision
I live in the weird and exciting gray area between the leaders who want answers and the people doing algorithm development and data cleansing—the stuff that makes your eyes glaze over.
Pete the Planner: Understand your sequence of returns risk before retirement
And whether you care to acknowledge this or not, the order in which the ups and downs occur hasn’t previously mattered to you because you’ve been in the accumulation phase of your investing experience.
Voices from the Industry: How to navigate the Corporate Transparency Act
Not only are the new BOI reporting requirements confusing for Hoosier business owners, but scams have also started appearing in our market. Fraudulent forms that mimic official documents are being sent out to unsuspecting business owners, asking them to submit information and sometimes a fee.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: The ties that bind government and media
There is nothing new nor particularly improper about a publication or news organization having an ideological or political slant.
Mark Montieth: Pickleball’s popularity spreading among pros, colleges and schools
Pickleball is now played as an intramural or club sport in schools, from junior highs to universities.
Editorial: Region should consider allocating READI money to Circle Centre
We believe the mall project will be a huge boost of confidence for downtown and will encourage additional development.
Lesley Weidenbener: Sushi Boss among fun changes downtown
I’m most immediately excited that a Sushi Boss restaurant is moving into a vacant space on the Circle. (It’s true; the quickest way to a journalist’s heart is through food.)
David Becker and Claire Fiddian-Green: Work-based learning promises better skilled grads
Indiana must take bold action to reform its education and workforce development system to deliver better outcomes for individuals, employers and the state’s economy.
Letters: Young entrepreneurs need help, too
We need to establish a Small Business Administration for teens in our city. The benefits of promoting entrepreneurship among teenagers are numerous.
Kim Saxton and Todd Saxton: Entrepreneurs don’t need to go it alone.
Forbes has ranked Indiana in the top two states for starting a business for the last few years. We have so many great resources to help people getting started.
Jalene Hahn: Saying goodbye to Daniel Kahneman, an economics pioneer
Before Kahneman and his colleagues, economic theory, and the practice of finance, consisted of investigating the reliability of the Efficient Market Hypothesis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
Derek Schultz: The Clark effect
Outside of Peyton Manning’s MVP trophy hoisting and “Saturday Night Live” hosting peak 20 years ago, it’s hard to find any single Indianapolis sports figure that ever quite possessed the cachet that Clark carries with her to the Circle City.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Macroeconomics concepts for non-economists
GDP does not include household production, such as cleaning, yard work and raising children, nor the underground economy, and has other conceptual flaws, but as noted above, it is a consistent measure.
Maureen Weber: To the next governor: Prepare the youngest to thrive
The governor could trade chronic underinvestment for a robust strategic bet in which today’s early learners form the skills to become the critical thinkers, problem-solvers and communicators driving our economy decades from now.