Natalie Robinson: Pay transparency laws hurt small businesses
While well-intentioned, pay transparency laws do little to address any perceived pay gap.
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This month, columnists debate increasingly popular pay transparency laws and whether businesses should be required to post salaries in job ads. Plus, columnists weigh in on protests on college campuses across the country, on the city’s handling of an MLS bid, and Dr. Richard Feldman warns that while COVID has become less of a threat for the majority, it’s still very dangerous for some.
Featured issue
Ashton Eller: The pay transparency pitfalls are clear
Pay transparency is the perfect example of legislation that interjects itself into a business’s hiring process.
Rep. Sue Errington: Pay transparency protects Hoosier job-hunters
One of the best ways to earn a higher salary is typically by switching companies, rather than being promoted internally.
U.S. Sen. Mike Braun: We must invest in health care, education
By focusing on solutions to improve our K-12 education system, improving rural health care, and lowering health care costs, we can make rural Indiana better than it’s ever been.
Brad Chambers: Lifting rural economies requires further investment
There’s only one person in this race with a record of working to boost rural Indiana’s economy—with unprecedented results.
Forefront
Una Osili: We all need to participate in climate-control efforts
We need greater collaboration between not-for-profits and philanthropic funders and between government and for-profit businesses.
Shariq Siddiqui: Let’s build more sustainable fundraising systems
Many development officers who work for Muslim charitable institutions might not see their families the entire month of Ramadan.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: Hogsett’s MLS plan was poorly rolled out
The way all of this has unfolded feels sudden, secretive and un-Hoosier-like.
Dr. Richard Feldman: COVID is here to stay and still dangerous to some
Remember that COVID is an unusual virus that causes ‘long COVID,’ especially in the unvaccinated or in those with repeated infections.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Now middle-aged, Gen X is the best generation
Part of the reason I enjoy being a member of Gen X is our attitude and adaptability.
Curt Smith: Some proposed language for a religious bill of rights
It is offered in the spirit of sparking a conversation about how we can tap into the latent talent and capacity of our neglected faith communities.
Brian Schutt: Revisiting F.A. Hayek’s prize speech 50 years later
Hayek used the Nobel platform to take a shot across the bow of the profession and against scientism broadly.
Jim Shella: Gov. Noem, you didn’t have to kill that dog
What the governor did was both premeditated and intentional. And unnecessary.
Brad Rateike: Celebrating a night of bipartisan politics this election
The Republican showed no contempt toward the Democrat. And vice versa.
Dana Black: Voters and candidates should focus on policy
Most people don’t truly understand that everything we do in life is based on policy.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Sharing some life lessons with the class of 2024
Life knocks you down, sometimes repeatedly.
George Gemelas: To lead, young grads should think like Caitlin Clark
At a mere 22 years old, Clark exudes the characteristics people early in their adult lives ought to adopt.
Rep. Ed DeLaney: Let’s fall back on principles, goals in protests
Each student demonstrator owes it to himself or herself and to society not to allow honest views to be confused with antisemitism or support for violence.
Pierre Atlas: My thoughts on campus protests
In many instances, militant groups are taking over the protest agenda.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Indiana needs enhanced K-12 career advising
Indiana should consider operating regional career services centers staffed by highly trained career advisers who work in partnership with K-12 schools.
Deborah Daniels: Trump has eroded the Justice Department’s reputation
These unfounded allegations undermine the confidence of the public in the judicial system, a bedrock of our democratic society.
Karen Celestino-Horseman: This November we must uphold the rule of law
Any bulwark, if hit hard enough and often enough will start to weaken.
Dr. Richard Feldman: How health care bills fared this legislative session
Indeed, the session proved to be the lightest and most inconsequential in my memory.
Brad Rateike: My take on the lifecycle of board service
In your early days of service, no one expects much out of you.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: In Indianapolis, local news is alive like never before
All of this is a very good thing for democracy, which operates best when it operates in the sunlight.