MILES: Neighborhoods are city’s next challenge
Mass transit is also a vital priority for rebuilding urban neighborhoods, giving residents the mobility to connect with jobs and their other daily needs.
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GIGERICH: Midwestern governors learn from Daniels
To no surprise, the economy and job creation were leading campaign issues in the 2010 gubernatorial elections. As a result, several new governors were elected across the country.
KLACIK: Many top-10 lists should be deep-sixed
Sometimes, there’s little difference between No. 10 and No. 11—or even No. 25 for that matter.
SLAUGHTER: Networking is more important than ever
Your personal network … is what will grant you the most direct access to the people you need to know.
KHARBANDA: Fiscal hawks should fight new-terrain I-69
Our organization recently released an economic analysis concluding that, over the next two years, Indiana will dedicate 23 percent of its available funding for highway construction, maintenance and repair to the new-terrain I-69 project.
POULAKIDAS: Raise demands for city-county councilors
Why is not our expectation that councilors come up with original ideas and solutions to the daily problems our communities face so we know they are qualified?
WALTZ: It’s past time for Congress to kill Quill
It is important to remember that online sales taxes would not be a new tax. Sales taxes are currently owed on every retail purchase made over the Internet—they’re just not being paid.
GUY: Who can blame harassed teachers for losing heart?
An Indianapolis Public Schools teacher was overheard saying, “Why should I improve myself through advanced professional training when the state and its providers will fire me next year?”
ETZKORN: ‘Tsunami’ of business sales coming soon
More than half of all businesses are owned by baby boomers and, while they may be working past age 65, eventually they will retire.
WHEELER: School transformation is making noise
In business, changes in the marketplace drive decisions to turn around a poor-performing business unit, division or entire company.
KANNING: Improved productivity isn’t good enough
The latest prolonged recession intensified the push for U.S. productivity gains.
YOUNG: Why I voted for the debt reduction bill
The decision to support the debt limit package, the so-called Budget Control Act, was not an easy one, but one that should be regarded as a meaningful and responsible first step on the path back to economic health.
KENNEDY: TIFs have gone from good idea to bad
The Ballard administration is proposing to turn large swatches of the urban core into TIFs, robbing school districts and libraries of desperately needed revenue.
THOMAS: Get thoughts in writing to keep your group’s story straight
As you might guess, when I got the e-mailed responses, they didn’t support the contention that “everybody knows” the program’s objectives.
SLAUGHTER: The lowdown on why you can’t find a job
The greatest challenge in landing a new gig is making a tremendous shift in perspective.
NAGLE: Beware Indiana labor force losses over next 20 years
Over the next 10 years, baby boomers will begin to retire en masse. By 2030, we can expect about 18 percent of Indiana’s population to be age 65 or older, up from 12 percent today.
GARNER: Diversity leads to economic success
Creativity comes not from the brilliance of one person, or a singular “ah ha” moment, but from a collision of ideas.
KENNEDY: A regulatory no-brainer could save lives
Cell phone users in the United States can’t choose to have radio on our phones because, when the ability to download first threatened the music industry’s business model, the carriers thought including broadcast radio would undermine their ability to sell music packages.
JOSEPH: Is working for yourself or for others riskier?
In business ownership, individual performance is the key indicator of success.
GUY: I have no predictions about the future
Those who try to predict the future do not tell us their track records, but they do ask us to buy their books.