One point everyone can agree on is that, over the past two years, construction costs have skyrocketed, thanks to higher prices for materials and a severe labor shortage. But other developers who spoke to IBJ say those setbacks alone would not explain a nearly 50% increase in the project’s cost.
If you have never heard of incels, you have lots of company. According to report out of Texas, although they are not a new movement, involuntary celibates are emerging as a domestic terrorism threat “as current adherents demonstrate marked acts or threats of violence in furtherance of their social grievance.”
We are at the point now where some schools are failing to graduate students, leaving many worse off than they would have been if they hadn’t attended college at all. This is a major problem for the employer community, as we are left searching far and wide for candidates to fill jobs in industries of all kinds.
Senate Bill 449, currently up for second reading in the Indiana Senate chamber, would roll back much of the progress already made in Indiana’s juvenile justice system over the last decade.
Working with more than 50 community partners around the state, we’ve compiled trustworthy, relevant information about this crisis, providing an entryway into this topic that many are hesitant to discuss.
The Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission’s recommendation of a two-year law license suspension without automatic reinstatement for Attorney General Curtis Hill, who is black, stands in stark contrast to the professional disciplinary actions recently recommended and carried out against two white Clark Circuit judges involved in a downtown Indianapolis shooting with two other men after a night of drinking.
I own a small construction company. In the past five years our health care costs have increased $1.43 per hour; a 30% increase since 2015. For 2020, we were hit with another 10% increase. A company simply cannot absorb those increases and remain competitive.
The allegations in question—which involve a scheme to illegally funnel campaign contributions to an Indiana congressional campaign—are the type that should be especially concerning to a regulatory agency. If true, they demonstrate no respect for the law, government structure and regulation.
We all want clean waters, flourishing native wildlife and healthy forests we can walk together.
Nearly 90% of employers struggle to fill open tech jobs, so, from BlackRock to AIG and from U.S. Steel to General Motors, highly skilled tech jobs like coding will continue to be in high demand, even in a recession.
My advice for 2020? Don’t panic. The stage is set for what promises to be an exciting new decade for Indiana manufacturing.
The demise of the promising Indiana Future Caucus is unfortunate, because no one else seems destined or determined to take the lead on issues critical to Hoosiers going forward.
We are living through a political climate that legitimizes a language of racial, ethnic and religious bigotry. Social media and the internet facilitate the proliferation of hateful ideologies that feed into antisemitism.
Indiana always leans Republican, but Bernie Sanders is powerful because of his populist message. Who knows? Indiana is a tossup for 2020.
Federal officials are worried that Indiana hasn’t built up a big enough surplus to weather the next recession.
As the first two weeks of the session pass, expect a transition in legislative focus to health care concerns—raised in loud choruses to lawmakers in conversations back home. Unlike
Every year payday loan companies take $70 million out of the Indiana economy in fees and make huge profits off the backs of the poor, mostly affecting those in our urban areas and predominantly people of color.
Let’s not allow climate change to become as partisan an issue at home as it is on the national level. Home is where climate change is felt, after all. It’s where weather extremes take their toll, where extreme heat buckles roads and torrential rains overwhelm our sewer system.
Successful transitions of family businesses from one generation to the next can be tough. Here are four things to help you prepare.
Previous conferences have been held in Las Vegas, New York City, Orlando, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago. With that kind of competition, how we do impress the AIA board and executive leadership and convince them Indianapolis is worthy?
