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.
The Ballard administration is proposing to turn large swatches of the urban core into TIFs, robbing school districts and libraries of desperately needed revenue.
As you might guess, when I got the e-mailed responses, they didn’t support the contention that “everybody knows” the program’s objectives.
The greatest challenge in landing a new gig is making a tremendous shift in perspective.
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.
Creativity comes not from the brilliance of one person, or a singular “ah ha” moment, but from a collision of ideas.
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.
In business ownership, individual performance is the key indicator of success.
Those who try to predict the future do not tell us their track records, but they do ask us to buy their books.
Education is an investment in which our city is expected to see a positive rate of return for every dollar invested and every degree earned.
Right now, Americans are deeply involved in one of our periodic debates about government spending and the budget deficit. Important as that is, I am more concerned about our civic deficit—the widespread lack of basic constitutional literacy.
We expect IPS to take its students to the very pillars of academic success after thoroughly hog-tying them. It’s difficult to find more breathless insanity than this.
Where were you when you first heard about Osama Bin Laden? Did you hear about it on Twitter and Facebook? On TV? Or did you see it on the front page of the morning paper, 10 hours after the rest of the world?
It turns out that, although we think of glass towers, cubicles and filing cabinets as the places where we go to accomplish something, the office is a terrible place to get anything done.
For the umpteenth time since the early 1970s, a president of the United States has issued a plan for solving all our energy ills.
Many Indiana citizens have been hit hard by the recession, and the General Assembly has reacted by kicking them while they’re down.
We need futurists, people with a sense of balance, people who want generations to come to be blessed with the same riches we grew up with.
Key utility executives and state legislators argue that Indiana’s power should come predominantly from coal and nuclear power.
Today, a political leader who proposes a higher appropriation to clean streets would be criticized. If he proposed going to the moon, he would be impeached.
Everyone, it seems, wants government to cost less—until someone suggests cuts to our particular sacred cows.
