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.
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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?
Mike Lopresti: Purdue’s No. 1 ranking now doesn’t mean much in March
Only two No. 1 teams in the final Associated Press poll in the past 25 NCAA Tournaments have ended up national champions—Kentucky in 2012 and Duke in 2001. Only four of the past 12 even advanced to the Final Four.
Editorial: Leadership needed as vaccine bill makes way through Legislature
We know both Huston and Bray to be reasonable leaders, and we appreciate that they wisely dropped the expedited process. Now we hope they will bring that same wisdom to House Bill 1001, which was filed this week and formally proposes most of the vaccine-mandate limits discussed during the public hearing.
Nate Feltman: Indy needs a vision and a plan to compete in the new economy
While I do not believe it is Mayor Joe Hogsett’s job alone to set the vision and implement the plan, I do believe mayors are uniquely positioned to lead and set the tone. One does not need to look far to see what mayoral leadership looks like when it comes to placemaking and making investments that attract talent.
Patty Martin: We must continue to grow region as life sciences powerhouse
Health care and life sciences account for one in every 10 jobs in the state. In central Indiana, those numbers are slightly higher, with the sector employing more than 164,000 people representing 10.6% of employment and 16.5% of the regional labor income.
Eric Tobias: Exposing students to business role models builds career dreams
Junior Achievement’s Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame is an opportunity to share the successes of great leaders in the central Indiana area with students as they begin to find their career path.
Letter: Remember congressional votes at next election
The improvements to our infrastructure, our water quality, access to the internet and many other aspects of life are impressive.
Letter: We are becoming too disconnected
Social engagement (the kind that doesn’t require a camera or screen) is a fundamental aspect of our development as a species.
Latoya Botteron: Be part of the ‘Book of History’ at the Harrison site
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site is collecting the names and countries of people who were naturalized at the presidential site since 2003—more than 1,500 people—to list in what is officially being called the “Book of History.” But becuase privacy laws preclude the federal government from providing those names publicly, the site needs help tracking down the names.