In response to IBJ’s April 26 editorial, “Simon could score for city library,” I thought it important
for your readers to know members of the Simon family have a long history of supporting Indianapolis’ public library
system and continue to be regular donors.
I am a sucker for a good story. During the NCAA men’s basketball
championship last month, when that ball, or as the CBS color commentator Clark Kellogg called it, the “pumpkin,”
arched into the air from the hands of central Indiana’s now second-most-famous “babyface,” I thought, “This
is it!”
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has released personal-income data for each county in the nation. The Indianapolis area
did not fare well.
On April 27, the NCAA unveiled its fifth president: Dr. Mark Emmert, currently president of the University of Washington.
I love smartphones. No other form of biz-tech allows me so much opportunity to be so curmudgeonly
about something so popular.
Indianapolis, home to a higher convergence of chain restaurants per capita than most any U.S. city (44-percent higher than
the national average), retained its crown last week.
Morton Marcus is right to question postsecondary completion rates as the litmus test for evidence of learning (in the March
29 issue).
The Morton Marcus [March 29] column on graduation rates hit home. I too do not like credentialism as an excuse to avoid evaluating
performance.
I defy anyone to tell me that losing the Pacers would be a positive thing for Indianapolis.
Tom Henderson gets it wrong in his [April 12] view that “Part of the overall utility problem is that lack of government
oversight and public policy vision has made Indianapolis one of the highest-polluting and just plain ugliest cities in the
Midwest.”
My advice has undergone a course correction to adapt to these challenging times.
There may be a solution to the Capital Improvement Board’s financial problems, described in [the April 19] IBJ,
that are further complicated by the Pacers wanting to renegotiate their Conseco agreement.
I got involved in restoration projects more than 30 years ago when a serious cardiac illness sidelined me from my medical-device
business.
As much as I disagree with corporate welfare and insider back-room dealings, the fact is that Goldman Sachs is one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Carmel eatery bills itself as the country’s first Dublin-inspired “industrial” pub.
Privatization is a popular political parlor
game. Instead of providing thoughtful reasoning for consideration by an informed electorate, officials try to meet public
needs through artfulness.
One recent study showed that medical
costs fall more than $3 for every $1 spent on wellness programs. But something doesn’t add up.
Perhaps the biggest problem is in estimating who is in and not in the formal work force. Even in good times, a surprising number of workers labor in the shadow economy, invisible to government statisticians.
This week, photographs by the legendary Weegee at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Plus a visit from the national tour of
“A Chorus Line.”
Perhaps it’s time for Pacers owner Herb Simon—a billionaire
like his late brother—to burnish his credentials as a philanthropist who makes the city a better place to live and work.
