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ALTOM: Don’t expect Amazon’s drones anytime soon
The retail giant’s futuristic delivery plan has some monumental obstacles to overcome.
LOPRESTI: 2013 Horseshoe memories give way to anticipation
Surveying the season and wondering what will be first: Indy in the Super Bowl or the Super Bowl in Indy.
Governor’s State of the State address avoids the nitty-gritty
Pence emphasized job creation, early childhood education, and quality of life, and used his speech to fit his proposals into those silos.
MAURER: What the boss doesn’t know
Does Chris Christie know all? Don’t tell anyone, but the governor I worked for didn’t.
EDITORIAL: Marriage debate wastes our time
Among the many good arguments for not putting Indiana through an expensive and embarrassing battle over same-sex marriage, one gets little attention: amending the Constitution to prohibit it won’t matter in the long run.
Kim: Investors need not accept mediocrity of index funds
We’re old school investment managers and think having the objective of underperforming the market by a little bit is the very definition of mediocrity. We reject the notion it’s foolish to even try to outperform.
Hicks: Labor markets respond to choices, good or bad
There are many causes to income inequality, most significantly that labor markets value different skills in different ways.
DOWD: Truth obligations are bigger than Bambi
I started speaking truth to power early. And my older brothers didn’t like it. They told me that archness in a 10-year-old was not welcome.
SOWELL: Facts challenge our beliefs about race
Depressing news about black students’ scoring far below white students on various mental tests has become so familiar that people in different parts of the ideological spectrum long ago developed their different explanations for why this is so. But both may have to do some rethinking, in light of radically different news from England.
FRIEDMAN: Another machine age is upending society
My favorite story in Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s fascinating new book, “The Second Machine Age,” is when the Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Hein Donner was asked how he’d prepare for a chess match against a computer, like IBM’s Deep Blue. Donner replied: “I would bring a hammer.”
TAFT: Just whose downtown is it, anyway?
Downtown Indianapolis was recently ranked No. 1 for livability among smaller cities by Livability.com—gratifying praise after $9.3 billion of reinvestment. Recent debates and plans, however, have raised a fundamental question: Whose downtown is this?
BOEHM: Solid reasons to build justice center now
Mayor Ballard proposes to create a judicial center that would bring the dispersed offices of the criminal courts, prosecutor, public defender and perhaps other agencies together with the county jail in one facility at a location to be determined, and free up the jail site for development.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Diversity still has bad rap in Indiana
What “D” word is used most sparingly or avoided altogether by Hoosier political, business and civic leaders when sharing how to position Indiana for growth and success? a) debt, b) deflation, or c) diversity?
KETZENBERGER: With religion, to welcome one is to welcome all
I read recently that a proposed statue of a goat-headed figure of Satan, known as Baphomet, is a bad idea on the grounds of Oklahoma’s Capitol.
MADISON: Statehouse religion isn’t trending well
I’ve been listing to the Swan Silverstones. “Don’t blame it on the children,” this gospel group sings, which got me thinking about who’s to blame for the failure to regulate all our state’s child care facilities.
BOHANON: Cautious concerning government initiatives
Free-market economists are skeptical of government programs designed to promote economic development.
ODLE: State needs bold, imaginative leadership
I don’t think anyone can disagree we need a strategy for making the slogan “Indiana Works” a reality.
PARR: What Indiana should address in 2014
Compared with neighboring states, Indiana is doing well. For that, Hoosiers can be thankful.
SHELLA: Stars might align for old deals to happen
Dwayne Sawyer just set a new world record for quickest rise and fall of an Indiana statewide elected official. His tenure as auditor fell just short of four months.