Mark Montieth: There’s no formula for draft picks, but history offers key insights
The Pacers have the 13th overall selection this year, a middling first-round selection for a team coming off a middling season.
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Letter: Diversity important in health care
Part of the disparity in health outcomes is attributable to how people of color are treated by white practitioners vs. practitioners of color, even when the practitioners are “equally” skilled.
Urban Design: Indy can advance by seizing these major opportunities
We also have an abundance of potential catalytic projects—either in design or gaining momentum—that, thoughtfully executed and with the right partners in place, could set the bar for our next 100 years.
Joe Hogsett: Congress should pass bipartisan infrastructure plan
A federal-sized infrastructure assist would allow Indianapolis to take responsibility for some of the unjust transportation projects of our city’s history.
Nikki Woodson & Shawn Smith: Evolving to meet needs of diverse schools, communities
Our supportive and locally elected school boards charged us to determine how we could address equity and equality not only in the classroom but also in our operation.
Letter: Kennedy’s analysis of critical race theory is inadequate
While the story sadly does point to actual injustice in America’s past, it is not CRT and doesn’t help the reader understand CRT.
Nate Feltman: Daniels’ action-oriented approach endures through foundation
The work of one of the foundation’s fellows has brought the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Indiana.
Editorial: Schools must support, educate athletes as they face new financial opportunities
On July 1, the NCAA eliminated a ban on the ability of student-athletes to make money through endorsements, autographs and other uses of their names, images and likenesses.
Bohanon & Curott: Neighborhood covenants can be local government at its best
Residential covenants ensure restrictions on property use originate from homeowners in the neighborhood.
Pete the Planner: How to teach teens the value of investing
I’ve come to learn that three areas need to be addressed when teaching teens how to handle money. They all feel intertwined, but they aren’t.
In the workplace: Before allowing flexible work, clearly define it
A hot topic right now is the notion of employers offering employees a flexible work environment. However, it leaves a lot of us wondering: Just what does a “flexible work environment” mean, and how does it help us to be our best?
Mike Lopresti: Athletes’ livelihoods, life-long dreams hang on Olympics
You think Indianapolis had its hands full hosting the NCAA Tournament without the walls crumbling in from COVID? Multiply that by a hundred and you get Tokyo.
Editorial: Spending on state parks, trails is welcome at time when talent attraction is crucial
We know that, as more companies move to remote working opportunities—and examples of that are all around us—employees will be able to more easily choose where they live. For Indiana and central Indiana to compete, we must step up our game.
Lesley Weidenbener: Downtown has been my safe space
I was startled when some extended family members recently expressed shock that I continue to come downtown every day—and that I worked in the IBJ office on Monument Circle regularly through the pandemic. They assumed it was too unsafe.
Sheila Kennedy: Uninformed frenzy over critical race theory is all politics
Assertions that critical race theory is being taught in America’s elementary and high schools are ludicrous. As I have been complaining pretty much forever, schools aren’t even teaching the most basic concepts required for civic literacy.
Brose McVey & Carol D’Amico: The power of a job on teen mental health
Beginning with the graduating class of 2023, high school students may help themselves graduate through work-based learning, including internships—an overdue change that should generate dividends, intended and otherwise.
Letter: Pacers need to be quicker
For this team to improve, the perimeter defense must be way better. Our guys seem to lack quickness.
John Patten: Rest areas need funding, too
Our surrounding states seem to understand these important way stations that dot our highways are, in and of themselves, indicators of state pride.
Readers: Send us your letters
Now you can go to ibj.com/letters, where there’s a form you can fill out to submit a letter directly to IBJ editors.
Mickey Kim: Stay cool even while inflation fears run hot
The nearly total shutdown of an economy and subsequent reopening is a truly unique event without precedent or a playbook.