Letters: Lawmakers should approve boost to public health funding
Improving the health of Indiana’s citizens, county by county, in both our urban and rural areas, is essential to maintaining our status as a state that thrives.
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Carlstedt, Hoops, Schaffer and Tamm: Collaboration is needed to address homelessness
The current homelessness problem is a barrier to attracting visitors and investment, growing our downtown businesses and generating revenue for the city and state. We all have a stake in its success.
Sam Snideman and Jason Bearce: Early childhood education is an important investment
Strengthening access to quality and affordable early care and education could prevent child care disruptions that, pre-pandemic, cost Indiana employers nearly $1.8 billion per year.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Recent bank failures repeat same old mistakes
The failure of SVB is almost exclusively driven by regulators and bank management ignoring what country bankers knew. That is, you can’t finance long-term investments with short-term money.
Bohanon and Horowitz: March Madness brackets have the best returns
State-sanctioned gambling is a significant source of state tax revenue.
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.
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.