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Curt Smith: Trump team mishandled flap, but decorum matters
People like Acosta risk causing less access for all journalists by being such bloviating bores.
John Krull: Donald Trump loves silly fights—and this is one of them
The pity is that too many journalists, including Acosta, end up playing along.
Sherri Fella: Your ‘shadow’ sets the tone for your team
Have you considered lately what kind of shadow you are casting? Is it light or dark? Broad or narrow? Consistent or erratic? Inclusive or exclusive? Perhaps you don’t even know.
MIKE LOPRESTI: Add these big sports dates to your pre-Christmas calendar
IU faces Purdue, Romeo goes up against Zion, and the Big O turns 8-0.
Letter: Red Line Construction—The pain will be worth it
As one of the 25 most-visited museums in North America, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is a peer to museums in cities where visitors expect to have easy access to them via transit. With the Red Line, Indianapolis will meet those expectations.
Amber Van Til: Keep the ‘farm’ in farm credit; program needs reform
Time is running out, but the Indiana Bankers Association is confident lawmakers will maintain the programs that help rural community banks serve farmers, ranchers and producers.
KIM: Act now to take advantage of the best college savings tool
With college costs escalating rapidly, reducing future debt by starting to save as much and as soon as you can for a child’s college education is vitally important.
Kerwin Olson: Proposed Vectren plant would set Indiana back
Vectren’s plant will harm our economy and our environment and will unnecessarily increase the monthly bills of electric consumers already saddled with the highest bills in Indiana.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Indy is better off for losing the Amazon sweepstakes
We’re relieved that thousands of transplanted workers are not going to overcrowd central Indiana and drive up the cost of living. Losing the Amazon sweepstakes is a blessing.
Editorial: Cigarette-tax hike is an easy call
Business and health interests are calling once again for common-sense legislation to help Hoosiers quit.
MICKEY MAURER: A Glick-like entrepreneur is improving our city
Aasif Bade is tackling big developments and big community problems, just like my mentor.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Our nation’s economic future depends on immigrants
In 2030, because of population aging, immigration is projected to overtake natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) as the primary driver of population growth for the country.
Liz Malatestinic: How not to be ‘ghosted’ by new or potential hires
The possibility of multiple employment opportunities can certainly explain why a candidate might change his or her mind about accepting a particular job, but it doesn’t explain why that person doesn’t have the courtesy to call and explain.
MIKE LOPRESTI: Something to be thankful for: the all-but-anonymous Colts O-line
Andrew Luck’s unsung heroes play big role in recent win streak.
Canal playground violates public trust
Regarding Indy Parks’ recent ribbon-cutting on the destructive, intrusive canal playground boondoggle, it looks like the Hogsett administration has even named it after the Colts—the “Colts Canal Playspace.” We might have expected this kind of thing from [former Mayor] Greg Ballard’s trademark inside-game administration, but not from a Democratic administration—one which so emphatically portrays itself […]
Letter: Thanking mentors is good practice
A mentor relationship is unique and often incredibly special—a simple thank you goes a long way.
Dennis Sasso: On patriotism, religion, culture—and humanism
It is the documents and values that inspired and shaped American democracy—the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the advocacy of civil rights and the ongoing vigilance to preserve and enhance our constitutional rights of equality and freedom—that I treasure.
Tim Cook & Katie Culp: What Indy won in the Amazon HQ2 process
The cost of the project, while critically important, never trumped its key determinative factor: people. Size, skill levels and growth rates of the qualified labor pool were indispensable considerations. With that criteria, Amazon chose New York and D.C.
HAHN: A dose of gratitude can be good for your finances
We so often look at the world and our personal situation and see what’s wrong or what’s missing. Gratitude is an ongoing action, a state of being or a way of life.