It seems appropriate the Boilermakers would be playing in the final game on the same day as a total solar eclipse, given the rarity of both events.
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Randy Fishman had the best seat in the house for Monday night’s championship, located courtside and smack dab in the middle. Friends watching the game on television would have seen him just above the black line running across midcourt.
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To fans, players are just parts of their favorite franchise or fantasy team. Let me remind you that we have lives to live. Families to take care of. Dreams beyond football.
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Last week, the Carmel boys golf team rolled to another championship by 17 strokes. It was the seventh state title of the school year for the giant school from the suburban beehive, whose population is now past 90,000.
Read MoreSenate Bill 9 would change the maximum levy growth quotient calculation. Minutiae, I know, but it could affect the bottom line for local governments by $163 million over the next two years.
Our senses of humor are one of the most important pieces of our personalities.
Heeding “expert” predictions can be extremely dangerous and costly; such predictions should be considered “for entertainment purposes only.”
The Ignite, the newest member of the fledgling Pro Volleyball Federation, took flight in their inaugural season earlier this month, scoring a 3-1 win over Orlando in front of a sellout crowd at the brand-new Fishers Event Center.
Residents need to get to school and to work and to the grocery store—safely. That is a core responsibility of government.
This year, we will launch a new IBJ Media app that will provide a one-stop shop for all IBJ Media content, including all podcasts.
Even with this freedom of choice, a significant inequity persists in the way all schools are funded.
The wealthiest 20% of Americans pay most of the federal income taxes.
Life within an organization is pretty different from violet to red.
Whereas I’m not anticipating a life of dodging wildfires here in the Midwest, it’s not too far-fetched to imagine other disasters impacting my ability to live the life I’ve dreamed of living.
Any organization, public or private, for-profit or charitable, that provides goods or services should, all other things being the same, do so in a way that uses fewer resources rather than more.
Rather than simply wiping regulations off the books without analysis, Gov. Mike Braun is urging agencies to review ways to simplify the rules, eliminate those that don’t apply to public safety and make the regulatory process more efficient and affordable.
We celebrated IBJ reporter John Russell’s retirement a couple of weeks ago at Coaches Tavern. A big crowd of current and former journalists turned out for the party to toast a journalist who spent the last nine years of his career at IBJ.
As seasoned public servants like us enter the later years of their careers, we must ask: Who will carry this torch forward? And how do we ignite the spark that inspires a new era of Hoosiers to serve?
I cannot help wondering if the God in whom Jimmy Carter believed so strongly did not keep him alive and active so long precisely to regularly poke our consciences.
There are some lessons to be taken from the best calls local decision-makers have made. And from the worst, too.
To those considering a career in education leadership—or to those already on that path—we urge you to think about the profound difference you can make as a superintendent.
If we’re not careful, our “planning-self” can set our “has-to-live-in-the-real-world-self” up for failure because we make plans unattached to the context, resources and imperfection of actual life.
Some claim that cutting tax rates will increase revenue collection.
While the anger was understandable, I don’t know why anyone would be shocked by Irsay, who is in the business of granting chances, granting more chances.
