Editorials

So, here’s our request to the College Football Playoff folks: Bring the game back here.

Our hope is that state leaders will take the time to be strategic in determining what can be accomplished to provide the biggest boost to the state while preserving adequate reserves.

Raising up minority-owned businesses is America’s greatest hope in closing the nation’s economic racial divide and building more wealth in minority communities.

We are excited to see what the IEDC chooses to fund in what we hope will be just the first round of READI grants—and we can’t wait to see what communities do with the money.

We know both Huston and Bray to be reasonable leaders, and we appreciate that they wisely dropped the expedited process. Now we hope they will bring that same wisdom to House Bill 1001, which was filed this week and formally proposes most of the vaccine-mandate limits discussed during the public hearing.

We urge thoughtful consideration of an Indiana legislative proposal to restrict how companies, schools and universities can impose vaccine and testing requirements.

The money, distributed over the next five years, will gin up Indiana’s construction economy, help the state preserve its standing as a transportation and logistics hub, and give more rural communities greater access to broadband commerce and remote job opportunities.

We believe vaccinations are our community’s best defense against an overwhelmed health care system—and a wrecked economy.
But we don’t favor government mandates.

Through an extended battle with Indianapolis police for public records, The Star reported last week that it obtained a police report that shows the shooter was accused of punching his mother in the face and stabbing her with a table knife in 2013. He was 11 years old.

There’s work to do for downtown to be in tiptop shape for the college football championship—alleys to clean, construction to finish, improvements to make in sidewalks and other infrastructure.

Hoosiers with disabilities account for 12% of the civilian noninstitutionalized population in our region, and many live with aging parents who might soon be unable to care or provide for them, putting them at risk of homelessness or institutionalization.

We urge state leaders to think of the Indy Autonomous Challenge as a starting point, not a one-and-done event. We look forward to seeing what’s next.

We commend Gov. Eric Holcomb and the governors of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, who signed a memorandum of understanding to create REV Midwest—the Regional Electric Vehicle Coalition.

Almost every other effort in Indianapolis—be it talent recruitment, economic development, tourism and more—depends on reducing violent crime, in particular the numbing number of shootings that are on pace to shatter records.

All parties need to sit down and figure out how costs can be contained and assure that the Prosecutor’s Office makes the move to help streamline the judiciary process and keep the campus’s development on track.