CARTER: Should Indiana raise its minimum wage? In a word: yes
Raising the minimum wage can not only save money on public health outcomes, it can literally save lives.
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UNDERWOOD: Upping minimum wage would be more over-regulation
The minimum-wage rate was never intended to feed entire families or be a rate that one worked at his or her entire life.
KIM: Kushners throw spotlight on dubious EB-5 program
Unlike the original aim of EB-5, many projects that qualify would have happened anyway. Access to cheap financing just increases profits of developers.
BOHANON & STYRING: Federal spending never forgets a crisis
During a crisis, government grows in scope, power and budget. All recede somewhat after the crisis. But never to pre-crisis levels.
LOU’S VIEWS: Mini golf returns to the IMA
After a successful opening round last summer, mini golf has returned to the Indianapolis Museum of Art with a mostly new set of 18 artist-designed links.
LOPRESTI: 82-year-old coach embarks on last turnaround project
Jerry Hoover has revived more high school basketball programs than you can count on one hand.
LETTER: Vonnegut Museum persists
We are gathering steam, garnering loyal local support at all levels, national recognition, and international press and continue to prove our worth.
STAUFFER & SCHLOSS: Focus should be on preventing unintended pregnancies
It astonishes us that politicians continue their assault on birth control and the medically underserved.
KENNEDY: Framing the social safety net
Attitudes about social welfare can be divided into two utterly incompatible categories: The use of citizens’ tax monies to provide a safety net is viewed either as charity or as self-interest, properly understood.
CATE: Planning matters in climate battle
Indiana University has announced a $55 million initiative—Prepared for Environmental Change—in collaboration with a bipartisan coalition of government, industry and community leaders. It is part of IU’s Grand Challenges commitment to address some of the most critical issues facing our state.
EDITORIAL: Best innovation may be investment in people
Indiana should try to boost the state’s anemic population growth and fuel its economy by pulling out all the stops to attract talent, starting with luring Hoosier ex-pats back home.
TOBIAS: Innovation looks a lot more like science than it does art
I like to think of new ideas as a network—a collection of observations, experiences, insights, relationships and creative thinking that systematically come together to form something new.
LOPRESTI: Not your father’s training room
Want to see innovations? Turn your ankle as a college athlete. Or, for that matter, get with the program of trying to prevent turning your ankle.
GARG: The so-called internet of things is not actually about ‘things’
The internet of things isn’t about making your toaster self-aware, it’s about making you more aware.
KIM: We all should heed advice from retired Navy SEAL
Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
BOHANON & STYRING: All this health care rhetoric is bad for our health
If society is determined to help those with expensive medical problems, the way to do it is … well, by helping those with expensive medical problems.
LOU’S VIEWS: Historical Society telling Indiana stories on road and in print
A look inside the new mobile touring exhibition and a new book on Presidential visits to Indiana.
LOPRESTI: Turnaround man rebuilds Butler baseball program
Bulldogs leave lopsided defeats behind, dispatch all state foes.
Legislature should consider liquor change
A popular saying among jurists declares, “The law should remain stable but never stand still.” Regarding an adherence to principles while also embracing innovation, this saying applies to businesses as well. My wife and I founded Ricker’s Oil Co. in our home in 1979. Like most small business owners, we had modest dreams and all […]
JOHNSON: Closing the Statehouse ‘millennial’ gap
Hoosier millennials take one glance at the latest from the Statehouse and think: Why bother? The Indiana General Assembly’s work product is a result of policy priorities that wouldn’t be out of place on the set of “Happy Days.”