Ilya Rekhter: Proposed tax on Bitcoin mining is bad business
The power consumption for this process is no joke, which is why the proposed 30% tax will effectively force all American-based companies overseas.
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Pete the Planner: Here’s how to take over your parents’ finances
Enter into this process with a calm mind and empathetic words.
Derek Schultz: NCAA Tournament determines one champion but shouldn’t be sole factor in judging entire season
Every college basketball fan in this state knows that the NCAA Tournament has been especially unkind to Purdue, but then again, it is rarely kind to anyone.
Editorial: New efforts to attract veterans, young workers are important
The Indiana Destination Development Corp. is spending a good amount of its time and resources on persuading people to move to Indiana or to stay in Indiana once they’ve come for college or internships.
Lesley Weidenbener: Readers share differing views of IBJ’s downtown stories
These readers’ concerns about our coverage are worth thinking about. We don’t always get everything right. But I can assure you that our intent was sincere.
John Ketzenberger: Wetlands take care of us, if Indiana lawmakers let them
Unfortunately in Indiana, less than 20% of the state’s original wetland acreage remains, and what’s left is under threat.
Chris Price: Shifting our view of inmates does more than fill jobs
The Indiana Construction Roundtable provides training in community centers around the state, with the majority of our students seeking paths out of poverty. And while those students appreciate the training, the prison-class students show the greatest drive.
Letters: FAFSA needn’t be mandatory
Every good idea, no matter how well intentioned, does not need to become law.
Kristen Cooper: Women-owned and women-led companies aren’t the same
A “women-led” company might have several women in charge making important strategic decisions on a daily basis; however, those female leaders don’t have enough equity in the company to control a board/investor-level vote.
Mark Montieth: Sport is no fad
There’s no better proof of pickleball’s ivy-like encroachment into the sporting landscape than what’s happening at every Life Time Fitness location across the country.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Lebanon shows us how to weather a banking crisis
Even with these hardships, the Lebanese people are resilient.
Jalene Hahn: Here’s how to make the most of an inheritance
However large or small of an inheritance you receive, proceed with caution.
Editorial: More creativity needed to win rural support for large solar farms
If rural farming communities have to give up huge expanses of precious land for the wind and solar farms needed to attract large employers, they should also be the site of some of those economic development projects and their high-paying jobs.
Nate Feltman: Next round of leaders must drive change
There likely has never been more turnover in top city and state jobs in such a short time.
Rima Shahid: Women’s issues have an economic impact for everyone
Indiana needs young workers, but if young workers see the state as being unfriendly to women, they won’t come here.
Sen. Todd Young and Jay Timmons: Our manufacturing competitiveness hinges on action
When policymakers support this innovation and job creation, it supercharges manufacturers’ impact.
Letters: Legislature is failing Indiana
Thank you, Karen Celestino-Horseman, for your column, “We need to be saved from the Legislature” [Forefront, March 10]. Current Indiana leadership touts their efforts to bring more business and talent to Indiana and efforts to get young, educated Hoosiers to stay here. Then our Legislature spends an inordinate amount of time and energy on bills […]
Letters: Support Walgreens for abortion decision
I believe the majority of people who live in the United States of America should back Walgreens as well as any other drugstore or other outlet who refuse to sell abortion pills in Indiana [“Walgreens says it won’t sell abortion pills in Indiana, even though it remains legal,” IBJ.com, March 7]. It is time for […]
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Here’s why it’s hard to accurately measure inflation
Inflation is when it becomes more expensive to purchase that bundle of goods.
Angie Stocklin: How open-book management helped us successfully pivot
Major company transitions take time, and I won’t pretend this rollout was quick and painless, but open-book management soon became an integral part of our company culture and was an additional layer of activating our core values, such as, “Act like an owner.”