Derek Schultz: Hope is on the horizon
The bar of expectations for this Colts team is so low that it’s hard to tell if it’s even off the ground.
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Editorial: Task force should consider changes to road fund to help urban counties
Last year, a study showed what public officials have long known: There is a wide disparity in the amount of road funding that communities receive when measured by the traffic traveling on those roads. In fact, the study found that Marion County ranked dead last in state-road funding among Indiana’s 92 counties when vehicle miles traveled are taken into account.
Lesley Weidenbener: For the newsroom, hybrid works well
What I found during the pandemic is that many (but not all) reporters and editors can be productive working remotely. Some of them can even be more productive at home. But that doesn’t always mean the team is more productive with everyone working apart.
Jim Merritt: Focus on expanding broadband, health care access
Anything that delays or limits deployment also delays or limits health care access and is inappropriate for Indiana.
Kate Willard: Trans-Atlantic partnerships key to joint prosperity
Everywhere I’ve been—from the University of Notre Dame to White River State Park to Victory Field—I’ve found politicians, policy academics and businesspeople excited at the prospect of working together and helping both Indiana and the Thames Estuary.
Letters: Contraceptives, not abortion, liberated women
Perhaps a positive consequence of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision will be a greater reliance on contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies instead of abortions to end them.
Letters: Chocolate maker deserved recognition
Anyone coming through Fort Wayne should make a special stop at one of the DeBrand Fine Chocolates stores.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Shareholder limited liability brings trade-offs
These stories remind us that modern corporations, where shareholders are granted limited liability, reflect a classic legal and economic trade-off.
Pete the Planner: When you get the chance to exhale, be proactive
You always need a short- to mid-term financial goal. Always.
Angie Stocklin: How raising a baby resembles building a company
Here is my kind of silly, kind of fun, but oh-so-true similarities of how raising our baby is like building my company.
Mark Montieth: Spirited storytellers
Two prominent and local ex-athletes are among the expanding roster of participants in the ever-growing industry of spirits, but they’re doing more than lending a name to a label or cutting a commercial.
Editorial: Innovation event holds promise for boosting state’s reputation
We appreciate the bigger goal of creating a can’t-miss, Midwest-based innovation conference, something that commands the attention of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, researchers and big-thinkers from the coasts and from across the world. There’s no reason an event like that can’t take place in Indianapolis.
Lesley Weidenbener: Hearing differences brings understanding
Listening to the reasons that someone holds a divergent view can be enlightening. It can engender empathy and help build bridges across the political divide. And it can even help you sharpen your own arguments to back up what you believe.
Doneisha Posey: Why maintaining diversity in higher education matters
A diverse student body doesn’t just enrich campuses; it equips all students to thrive in a globalized world and contribute positively to the challenges of the 21st century.
Angela Thompson: Let nurse practitioners improve access to health care
Hoosiers are in desperate need of increased health care access. Indiana was a shocking 35th overall in the latest United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which cites a high prevalence of multiple chronic conditions among state residents.
Letters: A well-deserved takedown
Attorney General Todd Rokita and former Vice President Mike Pence richly deserve the flogging Mr. Maurer administers.
Mickey Kim and Roger Lee: Fitch downgrade a warning U.S. approaching a reckoning
Fitch warned on May 24 its AAA rating for the United States was at risk as the June 1 “X-Date” on which the country would default rapidly approached.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Partisan bickering undermines U.S. fiscal integrity
The top-line story is that the Fitch downgrade emerged from its perception that there “has been a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters” in the United States.
Mandy Haskett: As AI proliferates, machines need soft skills, too
In eight years’ time, it’s predicted, the smartest thing on the planet will be a machine—something not human-made at all, but an autonomous form that has developed itself.
Derek Schultz: The card king
Even on nonpromotion days, the past and present always intertwine at Indy Card Exchange, where generations of patrons consistently step through Albert’s door to pore over decades of collectible treasures—from MJ, to Mantle, to Mahomes.