Jalene Hahn: Here’s how to make the most of an inheritance
However large or small of an inheritance you receive, proceed with caution.
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Editorial: More creativity needed to win rural support for large solar farms
If rural farming communities have to give up huge expanses of precious land for the wind and solar farms needed to attract large employers, they should also be the site of some of those economic development projects and their high-paying jobs.
Nate Feltman: Next round of leaders must drive change
There likely has never been more turnover in top city and state jobs in such a short time.
Rima Shahid: Women’s issues have an economic impact for everyone
Indiana needs young workers, but if young workers see the state as being unfriendly to women, they won’t come here.
Sen. Todd Young and Jay Timmons: Our manufacturing competitiveness hinges on action
When policymakers support this innovation and job creation, it supercharges manufacturers’ impact.
Letters: Legislature is failing Indiana
Thank you, Karen Celestino-Horseman, for your column, “We need to be saved from the Legislature” [Forefront, March 10]. Current Indiana leadership touts their efforts to bring more business and talent to Indiana and efforts to get young, educated Hoosiers to stay here. Then our Legislature spends an inordinate amount of time and energy on bills […]
Letters: Support Walgreens for abortion decision
I believe the majority of people who live in the United States of America should back Walgreens as well as any other drugstore or other outlet who refuse to sell abortion pills in Indiana [“Walgreens says it won’t sell abortion pills in Indiana, even though it remains legal,” IBJ.com, March 7]. It is time for […]
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Here’s why it’s hard to accurately measure inflation
Inflation is when it becomes more expensive to purchase that bundle of goods.
Angie Stocklin: How open-book management helped us successfully pivot
Major company transitions take time, and I won’t pretend this rollout was quick and painless, but open-book management soon became an integral part of our company culture and was an additional layer of activating our core values, such as, “Act like an owner.”
Pete the Planner: Don’t swap out for a tony house. Stay put.
I’m having a hard time getting my head around the logic in buying a new home (with the use of a mortgage) for those people who currently have mortgage rates in the 2% to 3% range.
Letter: Censorship must stop
Passage of an amendment to the budget bill that stops funding the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University is censorship of world-renowned science on human sexuality.
Derek Schultz: Teri Moren’s Hoosiers keep raising the bar for what Indiana Women’s Basketball can be
Added late in the summer of 2014 after the abrupt resignation of Curt Miller, Moren took over as head coach in Bloomington with little fanfare.
Letter: State should address billing practices
The price that I pay for health care on site at a hospital should not be the same price I pay for an off-site visit to my primary care doctor’s office for the same service.
Letter: Nation needs quality public officials
When can we get back to quality office holders more concerned about governing through collaboration and thoughtful consideration of all aspects of the major issues facing the country instead of focusing on their extremist wars?
Mickey Kim and Roger Lee: Microsoft’s ‘Sydney’ chatbot shows the dangers of AI
At the same time, we can’t help but see the similarities between the hype surrounding how AI is going to disrupt the way we live and learn with the excitement over how cryptocurrencies were going to replace government-issued currencies and “de-fi” (decentralized finance) was going to render our current financial system obsolete.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: A price Americans might be willing to pay in Ukraine
Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the war is, there is no end in sight.
Mandy Haskett: Leadership development shouldn’t just focus on leaders
Factors like toxic culture, bottlenecks, a lack of strategic clarity, lack of diversity, or cross-functional conflict act as organizational barriers that stifle your good people’s impact.
Mark Montieth: Mount’s 61-point performance part of Purdue basketball lore
It remains the single-game scoring record for a Big Ten player and stands as one of college basketball’s all-time-greatest shooting performances when the game’s meaning and opponent’s quality are considered.
Editorial: Lawmakers should abandon partisan school elections idea
Partisan politics at the state and national levels already have caused deep enough divisions among the citizenry, and there’s no need to do more to spread the discord.
Kate Pangallo: We must all be in the business of developing talent
More transparency of the region’s high-quality, high-need feeder roles from which workers can advance can make our region a place where the talent development and opportunity landscapes are as dynamic and exciting as the economy they fuel.