Letter: ‘Inclusive City’ full of great ideas
CEO Brian Payne, an extraordinary visionary, has more great ideas, creative- and coalition-building talent than any politician on the horizon.
CEO Brian Payne, an extraordinary visionary, has more great ideas, creative- and coalition-building talent than any politician on the horizon.
What’s special about Carmel, and Midtown in particular, is that it illustrates the transformative power of cohesive mixed-use redevelopments in suburban settings.
More politicians should study the legacy of this great statesman. I hope it will play a part in the renaissance of thoughtful, reasoned political debate and bipartisan governance.
The census is supposed to count “heads”—the number of people in a given area. There is no use of census data that requires knowing how many of those residents are citizens.
Civic engagement and good character are important values from which he never strayed.
Richard Lugar, the former mayor of Indianapolis and six-term U.S. senator who died April 28, set so many good examples for us to follow that it’s impossible to address them all in one place. But we hope the tributes and recollections that have poured forth since his passing impart some lessons that will stick. Lugar […]
Sen. Richard Lugar comes face to face with with a grateful constituent who emigrated from Ukraine.
In the end, there were good things that happened during the 2019 legislative session, and things that are good because they didn’t happen. But there also is too much money unspent and too many needs unmet.
While the General Assembly filled some holes in the law discovered by the increasing use of such services as Airbnb, rental scooters and peer-to-peer vehicle sharing, nothing was done to examine the framework behind some of these popular new concepts.
What will we call the fieldhouse after the Bankers Life moniker disappears this summer?
Mere minutes after raising my glass in celebration of my dear friend’s new job, I was on the verge of ordering another round to drown my dismay. He had just made a $713,000 mistake, and had no idea. I’m not normally a judgmental friend when it comes to money, despite what you might think, but […]
Becoming a truly informed voter takes a lot of time. But the odds that an individual’s vote decides an outcome is vanishingly small. So most voters conclude it isn’t worth the effort.
It’s as if we collectively shrug our shoulders and say, “These diseases are too hard to handle, so you’re on your own.”
On a local level, sponsor a child in a summer program. Help a child before he or she becomes a victim.
To unleash more resources to worthy causes, we need leaders and policy environments that will facilitate rather than limit philanthropic capital.
We have neighbors who are doing really well living beside neighbors who haven’t had the same access to or benefits from the same opportunities.
Without a dedicated focus to filling this gap, it is estimated the skilled-worker shortage could reach 11 million nationwide by 2020.
My view is that, if people don’t like paying high state and local taxes, they need to change their state and local legislators.
Imagine if we could help eliminate food deserts altogether by using autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries to underserved neighborhoods.
The Republican supermajority and the governor are failing to prepare Indiana for an ever-changing and uncertain future.