Kristen Cooper: How to keep women founders, investors from leaving
Indiana needs to allocate investment dollars specifically allocated for women similarly to how states like New York created a Minority and Women-Owned Business Investment Fund.
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Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: It’s unlikely we’re heading for another Great Depression
During the Great Depression, real price-adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell every year, for four years, from 1929 to 1933 and by a cumulative 26.3%.
Editorial: BMV is right to leave past behind, close more branches
Lots of work has been done over the past 30 years to cull the number of branches from 189 in 1988 to 124 today. But it’s clear that more trimming needs to be done for the sake of efficiency and financial responsibility.
Nate Feltman: Jim Brainard’s vision is crucial to Carmel’s success
Brainard believed that making investments in public infrastructure and livable neighborhoods would attract businesses and residents alike, as businesses would want to locate near their workforce or potential workforce.
Claire Fiddian-Green and Mario Rodriguez: Here’s a new approach to talent development
Employers looking to fill high-demand jobs, build a diverse workforce and create a pipeline of loyal future workers should consider youth apprenticeships.
Mark Isenberg: What’s really driving up health care costs in Indiana
Today, physicians manage the business of health care with the deck stacked against them. Just months after being lauded as heroes for their efforts in the pandemic, they are now not just fighting to save lives but fighting to keep their practices afloat.
Letters: RISE Indy has endorsed credible IPS candidates
We agree that in a district where 80% of students are non-white, the board should look like the families it represents: All three Rise-endorsed candidates this cycle are women of color.
Mike Lopresti: Celebrating Big Ten stadiums as Ohio Stadium turns 100
The league is the epicenter of football geezers.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Economist’s work provides insight into housing trend
Developers like the higher density, which increases profits, and homeowners like the increased amenities, like community clubhouses and playgrounds and control over the neighborhood
How Indiana can make its next tech advance
What can Indiana do to compete and win on an international level?
Pete the Planner: A savings index sheds light on your spending
In order to account for both inflation and increased consumerism, I’ve decided to track my spending by actually tracking my savings. In other words, I took a look at what percentage of my income I was actively saving.
Editorial: IPS school board races need jolt of meaningful competition
Only four candidates are running for three open sets. Only one race—to represent District 3—is contested.
Lesley Weidenbener: Appreciating an art form I could never begin to master
The American Pianists Association is on a mission of sorts to spread the word locally about the competitions, which already are well-respected internationally within the music community.
Deborah Curtis: Developing workforce pipeline begins with children
Providing needs-based financial assistance to families to assist with paying for this high-quality care will help reverse trends of generational poverty.
Bill Oesterle: To truly drain the swamp, let Congress work from home
Imagine what taxpayers would save by avoiding all of Congress’ long-distance back-and-forth travel, Fort Knox-like security, and any other cushy Washington stuff.
Letters: ESG is good for companies
ESG is straightforwardly good capitalism. To subsidize coal, which a hundred years ago was the cheapest source of energy but no longer is, is not good capitalism.
Letters: Co-warehousing space helped firm grow
Rise Commercial District was instrumental to our growth at Moonshot Games.
Bohanon and Horowitz: Gas prices don’t drive inflation
Inflation is not caused by rising prices of certain “key” items or “critical” inputs.
Jalene Hahn: Worried? There always will be something to fret about.
One thing I try to remember is that there are things within our control and others that are beyond our control.
Kim and Todd Saxton: When should startups build rather than buy?
The choice to vertically integrate comes down to four factors, including the source of competitive advantage and strategic goals, the risks of outsourcing, the importance of technical capabilities, and costs.