Darryl Lockett: Improving health outcomes will require collaboration
We know that as much as 80% of a person’s health status is influenced by social factors—factors that disproportionately impact marginalized populations.
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Natalie Robinson: Dishonest billing practices add pain to small businesses
Dishonest billing is a revenue-generating tactic leveraged by the state’s big hospital systems that has contributed to profit margins that are four to five times higher than the national margins.
Joe Hogsett: Downtown is a place to live, work, play—in equal amounts
We have begun transforming underutilized city-owned properties into mixed-use residential hubs. That added housing comes alongside other major residential projects and will be surrounded by infrastructure that improves mobility for residents with or without a car.
Melissa Proffitt: Business is prepared to lead downtown, but we can’t act alone
The Indy Chamber has a central role activating the regional business community, collaborating with elected officials and not-for-profit partners, and mobilizing resources toward strategic, long-term solutions. We embrace these responsibilities.
Taylor Schaffer: Progress requires public, private, philanthropic coalition
We need a return to the type of civic responsibility and corporate investment that rebuilt Monument Circle, re-envisioned Circle Centre, and empowered employees to get involved in the downtown civic ecosystem.
Carol and Kevin Sears: Downtown is a livable, walkable and safe community
Our lived experience is in stark contrast to the thinly veiled insulting words some nonresidents use to describe our neighborhoods and the business environment as of late.
Cebronica Luft: Small-business owners need support to be downtown
It will take a collaborative effort from city officials, public safety, business owners and creatives to provide access to small-business owners and investors like myself who want to grow downtown and move forward, together.
Kären Haley: Downtown residents essential to city’s long-term vitality
To build on the attractiveness of the downtown residential sector, we should invest more in the kind of quality-of-life amenities we enjoy and seek out in other cities, like parks and open spaces, playgrounds, public art and public restrooms.
Vop Osili: City leaders must prepare for downtown reinvention
This means investments in affordable housing, new work opportunities, public safety, and enhancing downtown’s appearance and attractiveness.
Jeffrey Harrison: Prioritize equity, a driver of community vibrancy
There are commitments Indy’s regional business community must make to ensure today’s young Black professionals and other people of color feel a connection with our city. To do so, we must make a concerted effort toward equity.
David Barrett: Preserving affordable housing is a shared responsibility
With 72% of extremely low-income Hoosiers spending more than half their income on housing, Indiana is the Midwestern state with the highest housing-cost burden for the lowest-income residents.
Dr. David R. Diaz and Dr. Brian S. Hart: To bring costs down, keep physicians in charge of care
The notion of reducing costs by turning to less-experienced providers is seductive. But studies find these changes have pushed costs up instead of down.
LaMar Holliday: Embrace the trials, triumphs of Black History Month
This Black History Month, let’s do something different. Learn about our culture. Be a change agent. Take steps to advance our causes.
Daniel Overbey: Updating energy code can boost home affordability
Our state energy code is one of the most archaic in the country, and we are all paying a price for it.
Tauhric Brown: Indiana is working to solve health-care worker shortage
States all across the country are experiencing a shortage of home-health workers. It’s a problem that is not going away anytime soon.
Kalen Jackson: How do we fix Indiana’s behavioral health system?
Indiana’s mental health care system was created in a bygone era, and despite many efforts over many years, it is still problematic today.
Beverly Gard: Beltway-based group is wrong about Mitch Daniels
The Indiana U.S. Senate race is almost two years away, and already, an outside D.C.-based group is trying to pick our Republican candidate.
Jake Teshka: It’s time to bring responsible cannabis reform to Indiana
Evidence showing that access to regulated cannabis can improve public health outcomes is getting harder to ignore.
Lynne Petersen: Regulation is not the answer to apartment affordability
A recent national survey of apartment developers by the National Multifamily Housing Council concluded that 87.5% of developers steer clear of cities with rent-control ordinances when planning projects.
Marie Mackintosh and Mike Wells: Gaps in academic outcomes warn us to act now
Our community—employers, philanthropy, parents, teachers and students—must come together to lift our schools and hold them accountable to the higher expectations required to thrive in today’s economy.