COOPER: Time for tech to confront gender inequality
What women really need leaders in tech to do right now is take principled positions against discrimination. Come out and say that sexism, bro-cultures and pay inequality are not OK.
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LENZI: Good design built on integrating, connecting
In the IoT era, design must address the integration of objects, functions and processes at the systems level along with the creative ability to see connections previously unnoticed, and within a business’s economic and technological constraints. This can be taught.
MORRIS: Fair is celebration of state agribusiness
And it was the perfect escape from the insanity playing out in the wider world.
LOPRESTI: As season approaches, tidbits from the NFL media guide
If you start 1-0, history says your chances of making the playoffs are 52.3 percent.
LOU’S VIEWS: Summer movies sans superheroes
While critics and audiences have praised the world-saving superfolk, I opted instead for these flicks.
DINING: Sahm’s gives Nora spot a comfort-food makeover
Sister spot for Big Lug Canteen is an ale house that knows its pizza.
SKARBECK: After scandal, LIBOR begins five-year phaseout
Small changes in the level of LIBOR had significant effects on the profitability of large banks’ loan portfolios. This sowed the seeds of the LIBOR scandal.
BOHANON & STYRING: Eliminate corporate tax in name of transparency
No corporation ever paid a dime in taxes. People, in some capacity, pay all taxes.
Wagner: Litmus tests for political parties are dumb
People can evolve on issues when they talk to each other and learn more not just about what others believe, but why they believe what they do.
LOPRESTI: Boilermakers basketball takes on world in Taipei
For the rest of August, Purdue is America’s Team, trading black and gold for red, white and blue.
LETTER: Stadium story underplays costs
Of all the numbers listed in your article about Lucas Oil Stadium [At a crossroads? July 24], you did not mention what the annual payments and debt service dollars are that the city must continue to pay for the stadium. Nor did you mention how much the city still owes on the Hoosier Dome (yes, the […]
LETTER: Ethanol mandates are damaging
It’s time to repeal or significantly reform this outdated, failed policy.
THOMAS: Life in a divided city
How could people in the divided city of Aleppo, Syria, live such different lives? I couldn’t imagine it—until I considered ways our city is divided.
MUSGRAVE: Giving good firms the boost to be better
I’ll concede that private equity might have a marketing problem. Somewhere along the way, it got a bad rap, which is a shame when you consider the impact private equity has had in Indiana.
MAURER: Embrace a decade of firsts, not lasts
I am disheartened over the melancholy exhibited by my contemporaries during what should be cheery occasions.
EDITORIAL: Program for blind deserves saving
The Veterans Administration’s policy change to discourage the use of not-for-profit agencies serving people who are visually impaired is misguided.
KIM: Are passively managed funds too ‘dumb’ to vote?
Because passive funds do not choose stocks based on performance potential, Lund asserts they lack a financial incentive to ensure that each of the companies in their very large portfolios is well run.
BOHANON & STYRING: Tariff logic is as mushy as canned tomatoes
Forcing steel-using firms to substitute high-cost U.S. steel for low-cost foreign imports makes those businesses less competitive.
Ireland: Lesser-known candidates offer much in Senate race
Candidates who run on ideas—no matter the results—breathe life into their party and help move communities forward.
Shabazz: A few more facts about police-action shootings
With what we’ve seen in the news, you would think it was open season on unarmed black men by law enforcement. However, the data paints a different picture.