Pete the Planner: Making the most of data helps avoid financial shock
Given the many inconveniences in our personal finances, it’s surprising there’s not more focus on how we respond to negative outcomes.
Opinion
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Mark Montieth: Can Purdue win it all?
It seems appropriate the Boilermakers would be playing in the final game on the same day as a total solar eclipse, given the rarity of both events.
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Counting the seconds: Timekeeper works 21 NCAA games (oh and Pacers games, too)
Randy Fishman had the best seat in the house for Monday night’s championship, located courtside and smack dab in the middle. Friends watching the game on television would have seen him just above the black line running across midcourt.
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BRACKETT: Understanding Luck’s decision
To fans, players are just parts of their favorite franchise or fantasy team. Let me remind you that we have lives to live. Families to take care of. Dreams beyond football.
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MIKE LOPRESTI: For Carmel High School, sports dynasty hits milestone
Last week, the Carmel boys golf team rolled to another championship by 17 strokes. It was the seventh state title of the school year for the giant school from the suburban beehive, whose population is now past 90,000.
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Articles
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Fallout from tariffs is seen in unexpected places
The tradeoff is that the tariffs increase prices, and industries that use the now higher-priced goods as inputs in their production hire fewer workers.
Kim and Todd Saxton: The art of the exit: Our goodbye as next chapter calls
Roughly 27 years ago, about this time of year, we arrived in Indianapolis with our elementary-school-age daughters.
Tony Armstrong: It’s time for Indiana entrepreneurs to crank it up
By more actively recognizing and celebrating the contributions of our entrepreneurs, we can fashion a spirit of innovation, creativity, collaboration, resilience and risk-taking that further elevates Indiana’s reputation as a place where startup businesses truly take off.
Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler and Donnica Carpenter: Relapse amid recovery isn’t a failure. It’s a time to reset.
If someone were suffering from heart disease or an ulcer, we wouldn’t shy away from acknowledging setbacks. We should have that same mindset for addiction.
Mickey Kim: Did fishy shrimp deal ultimately end Red Lobster?
In a famous exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” one friend asks, “How did you go bankrupt?” To which the friend replies, “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Not just about dollars: Economics embraces a broad way of thinking
Many people think economics is just about dollars and cents. However, it is much broader than that.
Angie Stocklin: Exits come with mixed emotions. Let’s recognize that.
I was extremely proud of my team and what we had accomplished to bring us to the point of acquisition, but I was also distraught and devastated.
Derek Schultz: Learning as they go
On the court, you can see how far they still have to go before becoming a contending team again.
Editorial: Let’s rally around Olympic trials and cheer on swimmers to Paris
Go because it’s an opportunity to see world-class athletes competing at the highest level. Go because it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than trying to get to Paris. Go because the swimming trials will be on prime time television for nine straight days—and that’s nine days of amazing advertising for the city of Indianapolis.
Lesley Weidenbener: Sallie Rowland was an impactful leader
While Rowland commanded attention for her work on hundreds of office spaces across the region, she is best known for her work in the community, which started in earnest when she became president of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission.
Emily Weikert Bryant: Farm bill’s draft language would weaken hunger help
One in seven Hoosiers experienced food insecurity, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The farm bill is a crucial opportunity to quickly reduce hunger in our communities and support the work of food banks like our members.
Luke Messer: Let’s work together to improve Hoosier health care
The Indiana Business Health Collaborative is a unique new partnership among Hoosier employers, all parts of the health care industry and other stakeholders interested in working together to strengthen the state of health care in Indiana through market-based, patient-centered solutions.
Letter: Vision loss is frightening
Bosma Center for Visionary Solutions offers training and resources for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. We understand vision loss can be frightening and that a sense of hopelessness can creep in.
J. Scott Davison: Indianapolis will make history during Olympic trials
To make this event all it can be, we need our community and our local corporations to support the event. Olympic Trials will be the most exciting event of the summer. You won’t want to miss it!
Garrett Mintz: Survivor’s guilt: 3 ways to build morale after layoffs
Layoffs are part of a business’s natural ebb and flow.
2024 Innovation Issue: 5 keys to driving Indiana’s manufacturing future
Innovation is the thread woven through these truths, not only in the digital sense but also as it relates to the education and training of our future workforce, providing strategic funding and proactively building the powerful partnerships necessary to effect real change.
Editorial: Indiana should invest more to make sure manufacturers have latest tech
Indiana’s strategic advantage as a manufacturing powerhouse is dependent not just on companies that are building new plants with the latest technology but also in ensuring that existing manufacturers—many of which are suppliers for the big guys—implement the latest technology. If they don’t, they could lose the ability to compete.
Nate Feltman: 3 big challenges await Indiana’s next governor
Gubernatorial candidates Sen. Mike Braun and Jennifer McCormick have an opportunity to explain to Hoosiers their ideas to address our failing K-12 education system, rising energy costs and rising health care costs. Doing so will lay the groundwork for action in 2025.
Greg Zoeller: Carbon capture can usher a new era of manufacturing
In our industrial landscape, the traditional image of manufacturing is often associated with billowing smokestacks and environmental degradation. However, thanks to advancements in carbon capture and sequestration, this image is rapidly becoming outdated.