Shariq Siddiqui: Let not-for-profits be innovative, willing to fail
The challenge is that social value is hard to achieve when making a profit or worrying about the bottom line.
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Jennifer Wagner: Vote for something, not against something else
What’s fascinating: The two men most recently elected to serve as presidents of the United States took a positive approach.
Michael Leppert: Hoosier Women Forward is a pretty big deal
In modern America, we shouldn’t have a need to address the shortage of women in leadership roles.
Mary Beth Schneider: A bad case of chicken pox
To so many women, the last couple weeks felt like another losing battle in a lifelong war to be believed and respected.
Riley Parr: Kavanaugh, hearings swayed too far into politics
Democrats have given Republicans the best possible motivation to turn out and vote.
Christina Hale: Creating a culture that supports victims
How we respond to Dr. Ford and discuss her case could discourage today’s victims of sexual assault from reporting.
Randall Shepard: Indiana does appellate nominations far better
Indiana has three appellate courts, and the chief judges of all three are presently women.
Jim Shella: News decisions shouldn’t be driven by clicks
Leadership sometimes requires turning a blind eye to analytics.
Tom LoBianco: Reporters need to stop letting Trump define them
This seemed to be a wakeup call for reporters. Maybe we need to do a better job letting the public know who we are.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Consumers, farmers lose in Trump’s trade war
The only things to be gained from a trade war are higher prices, economic uncertainty and misery, much like real war.
Deborah Daniels: Higher tolls good trade for better roads, broadband
How can a small business thrive in the 21st century without internet access?
Karen Tallian: Superintendent should be elected by the people
By making this elected position an appointed one, the supermajority ignored the voices of the more than 1.3 million Hoosiers who voted to put Glenda Ritz in that office.
Betsy Wiley: Appointing the schools chief is common sense
If you look across the national landscape, more than three dozen states already appoint their superintendents.
Liz Malatestinic: Think you’re great at multitasking? Think again
While we may feel better about attacking a variety of tasks, we actually lose a lot of productivity—some estimate as much as 40 percent—in the act of switching gears from one thought process to another.
MICKEY KIM: Stocks continue to be appealing, but Goldilocks has left building
The fact remains that both the stock market’s advance from the March 2009 lows and the economic expansion are long in the tooth.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Don’t praise—or curse—Amazon for its pay decisions
Charitable instincts don’t dictate how much people make, the market does.
Letter: Kavanaugh will be impartial Supreme Court judge
Apparently Judge Kavanaugh’s six or so FBI background checks are not enough for Sheila Suess Kennedy.
Chris Moorman: State should free Hoosier farmers to grow hemp
Today’s farm economy is far too complex to “fix” with a silver bullet, but innovation on the farm has always been the key to prosperity.
Michael Foit: Recommit to skilled trades as alternative to college
It’s time to change this “everyone should go to college” mindset, along with the attitude that those who do not go to college are limited to low-income jobs (and, by inference, unhappiness).
NATE FELTMAN: IPS referendum process inspires hope
Collaboration between school district, business leaders is how problem-solving is supposed to work.