EDITORIAL: City should plan for what comes after demolition
The city of Indianapolis is launching a $20 million war on abandoned houses without a plan for dealing with the properties after the wrecking-ball dust has settled.
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EDITORIAL: NBA lockout fuels old debate
The billions of dollars in public money spent subsidizing franchises across the country don’t buy mayors or governors a seat at the bargaining table when players and team owners wage war.
EDITORIAL: Invest in the underemployed
Armies of people find themselves lingering on the sidelines.
EDITORIAL: Angie’s List has earned city support
Angie’s List is close to downtown’s core, but the neighborhood the company has supported couldn’t be more different.
EDITORIAL: Economy is weak, but this is no 2008
When the stock market plummeted on Aug. 8 and did so again two days later, many of us found ourselves having flashbacks to 2008, when every bleak day in the market seemed to be followed by another and then another.
EDITORIAL: Let locals call tax shots
Cutting taxes is a worthy goal. So is giving locals as much say as possible in how much they pay and how that money is spent.
EDITORIAL: Athletes could make charity last by giving instead of creating
It shouldn’t be any surprise that professional athletes are flexing their philanthropic muscles with increasing frequency, leveraging their wealth and fame to start tax-exempt entities of their own.
EDITORIAL: Sports venues catch a break
It’s been a good month for the city’s old sports venues—some of which, in a relatively short time, went from being the darlings of the city’s amateur sports movement to easy targets for the wrecking ball.
EDITORIAL: Courts should repel school voucher suit
The lawsuit filed this month to block the state’s new school voucher law should be turned back on a lobby that has fought education reform at every turn and rarely offered solutions to underperforming schools other than demanding more money and time.
EDITORIAL: City should share more details on garage deal
The city’s decision to entice a developer to build a parking garage in Broad Ripple is entirely appropriate—we just wish there were more transparency about the deal that will involve more than $6 million of city money.
EDITORIAL: Lessons to draw from Republic-Frontier deal
Despite some post-acquisition stumbles, the moral of the story should not be that Hoosier executives need to proceed with greater caution.
EDITORIAL: Star newsroom layoffs shortsighted
There was no rejoicing when word of The Indianapolis Star’s most recent round of layoffs reached the IBJ newsroom, no celebratory toasts to the continued erosion of our once-mighty daily competitor.
EDITORIAL: A move to new digs isn’t far-fetched for Angie’s List
The idea of Angie’s List someday pulling up stakes just east of downtown and moving its 650 employees to Fishers, for example, is discouraging for anyone who recognizes the importance of a healthy city core, but the possibility should come as no surprise.
EDITORIAL: Aiding ex-offenders helps us all
Mayor Greg Ballard wisely put a spotlight on the reintegration of ex-offenders into society when he created the city’s Office of Re-entry in 2008. The effort had piles of promise.
EDITORIAL: TIF-district plan deserves support
The tax districts allow the city to capture new property tax payments within specific boundaries and apply those funds to infrastructure upgrades and other incentives designed to lure private investment.
EDITORIAL: Nordstrom loss not death knell for downtown
The news that Nordstrom Inc. will close its Circle Centre mall store July 31 is proof that the suburbs still rule where retail is concerned, but it shouldn’t signal a repeat of the gradual decline downtown suffered when merchants began leaving the city’s core in the 1950s.
EDITORIAL: Smart growth likely result of Zionsville battle
Zionsville’s family feud over commercial real estate development has stirred passions among people who seem to agree, at least outwardly, on one point: The town’s growth should be managed to preserve its quality of life.
EDITORIAL: Interstate network isn’t enough
Our country’s transportation future is too uncertain for Hoosiers to be almost entirely dependent on cars.
EDITORIAL: Bad bills temper legislative achievements
On the face of it, the just-concluded session of the Indiana General Assembly was one to savor for business interests. Yet in other ways, we’re forlorn, even embarrassed, by what emanated from the Statehouse this year.
EDITORIAL: Education bills rise above legislative noise
In a legislative session that saw puzzling attempts to move the state backward on issues such as smoking cessation and public transportation, the success of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ education agenda stands out as a bold step forward.