What should be done to attract more young professionals to Indiana? The availability of a talented innovative work force is now as important as low taxes, energy costs and location when entrepreneurs make job-location decisions.
What should be done to attract more young professionals to Indiana? While manufacturing continues to play an important role in our economic base, we must be realistic and focus our attention on advanced manufacturing and green technologies.
As we move deeper into the second decade of the new century, we must face the reality of our failure to keep our kids at the front of the competition, especially in math and science.
I applaud the signs of progress that have been reported recently, but we are a long way from success.
Indiana cannot meet growing economic and educational expectations without fundamentally rethinking how we deliver higher education to our students, how we measure progress, and how we reward results.
Indianapolis is in desperate need of leadership, both the vision to steer a wayward ship back on course and the competence to implement large projects while deftly managing daily operations.
How should the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department be fixed? Unfortunately, the conduct of a small group of police officers has eroded the public’s trust and confidence in IMPD.
How should the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department be fixed? But it’s not broken.
The city should not approve another hotel development until it is clear the hotel operator will not pursue the same low-wage path of those who came before it.
Our ruin absent heroic stances at the Statehouse and the Governor’s Office, is not only politically likely but mathematically certain.
No doubt about it. My vote for collective bargaining rights for teachers as a state senator in 1973 was a big mistake. Not my only miscue in public life, but a whopper.
Together again were the president and vice president who invaded, deregulated, overspent, created a climate of fear, and intensified the class divide with tax cuts.
On an individual level, a partisan mind-set corrupts the intellect and poisons the wells of human sympathy.
The death penalty in the United States has never been anything but an abomination—a grotesque, uncivilized, overwhelmingly racist affront to the very idea of justice.
We need an all-society effort—from the White House to the classroom to the living room—to nurture a culture of achievement and excellence.
Indiana cannot endure without serious reform, and this session must be approached with the urgency it deserves.
Major infrastructure investment at the state and local level is a significant reason for optimism for the long-term competitive positioning for the city and state.
An initial drop in local property taxes overall is likely to increase over time. The questions are when and how?
In a campaign where Dan Coats’ primary and general election opponents questioned his Hoosier bona fides, why didn’t the former senator regale us with his Indiana policy success stories?
Proponents have to connect government reform to the real pocketbook issues that drive people.
