Cecil Bohanon & Nick Curott: The optimist’s and pessimist’s view of our pesky inflation situation
Businesses are always greedy. Sometimes, greed causes businesses to lower prices; other times, to raise prices.
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Mike Lopresti: First 10 days of January offer a sports buffet
Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl, Wisconsin at Purdue and Ohio State at Indiana are among the choice matchups in the first day of January. Oh, and the College Football Playoff Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Pete the Planner: A ‘mock retirement’ is key to knowing when it’s time for real one
Once you’ve had this discussion with your financial planner and she’s able to confirm the viability of your retirement, on paper, it’s time for one last game of trial and error. However, this time around, we’re going to lower the stakes by installing a giant safety net.
Editorial: Cook Medical’s diversity commitment should be lesson for corporate Indiana
Raising up minority-owned businesses is America’s greatest hope in closing the nation’s economic racial divide and building more wealth in minority communities.
Nate Feltman: 2021 newsmakers push Indiana forward
In the latest issue of IBJ, we highlight the newsmakers of 2021: individuals who had a significant impact in our community as nominated by our readers and IBJ staffers.
Diane Janowiak: Right test, right time could help alleviate hospital readmissions
Health care systems remain under pressure to reduce readmissions. One way to do that is to analyze lab data from across the system to identify room for improvement.
Maureen Weber: A diverse pipeline begins with investing in early-learning programs
Far too many Black and Hispanic students are falling behind in K-12 education, receiving waiver diplomas, not pursuing post-secondary education and failing to complete post-secondary degrees.
Letter: State officials are failing us
The governor on down is willing to let the disaster unfold and get worse. The economy and financial gain is the mantra for state government officials.
Letter: Don’t fret masks; worry about teachers
It’s sad to see the focus on suing the feds when the reality is that if our state government doesn’t start doing something to support our teachers and schools and improve school financials.
IU Health should cut costs now
Why stick with high prices and announce you’ll freeze your high prices for five years to allow inflation to catch up to your high prices?
Letter: Lafayette Square project looks promising
The proposed Window to the World project at Lafayette Square is the type of unique development Indy needs to showcase itself as a city on the move and show its diversity.
Kerry Prather: Pandemic experience will lead students to small colleges
In many respects, only small private colleges managed to preserve the essence of the traditional college experience safely and effectively during the height of the pandemic.
Letter: Forefront column unfair to Fauci
What is not questionable, is the more folks are vaccinated, the less chance of infection from current or new variants.
Letter: IBJ wrong on vaccine
For the first time in my 30-plus years of subscribing to the paper, I felt your statement was politically driven and not reality driven.
Editorial: Give READI grants to the best proposals
We are excited to see what the IEDC chooses to fund in what we hope will be just the first round of READI grants—and we can’t wait to see what communities do with the money.
Lesley Weidenbener: Let’s find big ideas to rejuvenate downtown Indy
We’d like to hear about your proposals. Watch for information soon about how you can submit your big ideas for downtown—and in the meantime, get creative!
Claire Fiddian-Green: Employers should care about addressing racial gaps in education
Far too few Black and Hispanic students are being adequately prepared for success after high school.
Alfonso Vidal: Our economy, families, need Congress to pass immigration reform
I am a loyal Republican who voted for Donald Trump two times. There’s a misconception that Trump supporters want to deport all immigrants. The research shows this stereotype is false.
Letter: Economy, urban design columns conflict
Cecil Bohanon and Nick Curott’s column “Give thanks to Pilgrims for private-property rights” suggests “binary thinking”: private property equals good; working together and sharing equals bad.
Letter: DNR underprices timber sales
Would you sell your mature trees for $10.16 per tree to someone coming in to log your property?