GIFFORD: Fund Indianapolis-area transit as an essential service
We’re redoubling our efforts to pass this plan in the 2013 legislative session.
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CHOCOLA: Why it’s time for Lugar to come home
I’m thankful to say there are few Republicans left who still support earmarks. Regrettably, one of the remaining few is 35-year Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar.
BAKER: Women are still underpaid
April 17 is Equal Pay Day, a day that marks the wage gap—the number of days into the year women have to work, in addition to last year, to earn the same amount of money men made last year.
QUINN: New energy code is already obsolete
Adopting the new code would result in even greater savings for Indiana home buyers.
CONOVER: How to get our manufacturing jobs back
At the current rate, it’ll be eight more years before manufacturing employment is back to where it was in 2007.
WILLIAMS: It really is the right to work for less
In which category do the 23 right-to-work states lead the nation? In poverty.
KLACIK: Now for a new round of big thinking
If we go about directing the energy and confidence gained during our super moment into an effort downsized by fear of failure, and constrained by limited resources, hampered by political partisanship, and burdened by intra-regional rivalries, and what-is-in-it-for-me agendas, then we will not fully realize the potential of this super moment.
HILL: Business management for educators
In December, The Mind Trust, an education reform not-for-profit, released a report proposing a dramatic overhaul in the way IPS operates.
LAVOIE: My surprising move to Indianapolis
A city with affordable experiences, great neighborhoods, spirit of cooperation, and an ability to execute upon your ideas make Indianapolis one of the country’s best-kept secrets.
BOWMAN: A UAW member cheers right-to-work
Gov. Daniels and the Indiana Legislature seized the brave choice to do what was right for residents and union workers and passed right-to-work legislation.
FAENZI: Big career changes shouldn’t be so hard
If one’s identity has been based on being a manager, CEO or president of something, what happens when he chooses an unconventional path?
KISSINGER: Measuring success with wealth, not jobs
Today, we hear an endless drumbeat about job creation and use that as a metric to judge government incentives. What we really want is “wealth creation” through innovations that satisfy customers.
McNAMAR: I love Indy, but not the public transit system
I would like to commute by bus—I can’t. I work in Carmel, but IndyGo does not go beyond 96th Street.
COMPTON: School reform in the Kingdom of Happiness
Poignantly, the citizens of Bhutan measure gross national happiness, not gross national product. With goals of good health, community vitality, good governance and sustainable development, they are also creating a unique education system.
GUY: I’m pretty good, sure, but outstanding?
In Indianapolis, 65 of us are “outstanding,” meaning measurably better than all the rest. Hard to imagine.
HENDERSON: Don’t choose between online tax and estate tax
I’ve yet to see an Amazon sign at a Little League playing field, or sponsoring the Girl Scouts.
BEGO: The godsend of right-to-work is freedom
Ultimately, right-to-work is an issue of the right to private property, one’s labor, which we as Hoosiers expect both sides of the aisle at the Statehouse to honor and defend.
WILLIAMS: Expand IPS to Marion County borders
Absent a focus on county-wide educational reform, these efforts may address underachievement within IPS but fail to address needs of top academic performers, the large academic middle, and underperformers in all Marion County schools.
SLAUGHTER: The prudently fast are winning the race
As we wrap up the final quarter of 2011, it’s clear the struggling economy is not a deterrent to many entrepreneurs.
UPDIKE: What millennials look for in urban cores
I’m among the firstborn of the millennial generation—that group of young folk who grew up with the Internet and can’t really remember life without spell-check—and I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to engage my budding generation.