SKARBECK: Don’t wait for the robins when making investments
As Warren Buffett counseled in October 2008, “If you wait for the robins, spring will be over.”
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HICKS: Defining and understanding poverty in America
How much poverty we have and how bad it is remain elusive questions. The causes of poverty are better known.
LOU’S VIEWS: Urbanski renewal for Indianapolis Symphony
A new maestro sparks the ISO, plus thoughts on Indiana Repertory Theatre’s “Dracula” and Beef &Boards’ “Singin’ in the Rain.”
DINING: Closed encounter makes it a Blue Wednesday
Last in a series of “game on” restaurants. This week: Blue Crew Sports Grill
ALTOM: Business consumer loses when Google, Apple fight
Even complementary companies can trip over each other in today’s high-tech market, and cause problems for the business users who depend on them.
MORRIS: A former entrepreneur returns home to Indiana
In my early days of selling radio advertising, I met Steve Shuel, who owned his own advertising agency.
EDITORIAL: ‘Green’ funding is losing glow
Financial backers need a greater appreciation for the inherent risks in emerging industries.
Assumptions hurt Libman, others
When any president or CEO leaves, a review and audit are routinely done to reassure the organization that all was handled correctly and that there was no illegal behavior, so they can move forward with a new leader.
Some Tea Partiers tinged with racism
According to Peter Rusthoven, skin color is absolutely no part of any attacks on President Obama.
Believe Kostas: Vote for Scales
After reading the [Sept. 12] Viewpoint by Kostas Poulakidas, I can only conclude that I will receive his vote in the Nov. 8 municipal elections. I am exactly what Kostas is looking for in a city-county councilor.
SLAUGHTER: Networking is more important than ever
Your personal network … is what will grant you the most direct access to the people you need to know.
KENNEDY: Threshhold questions for higher education
Colleges and universities that are genuinely engaged in education must have standards.
BROOKS: For young adults today, if it feels right …
It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues.
DOWD: Our choice—blockheads or the egghead
At the cusp of the 2012 race, we have a classic cultural collision between a skinny Eastern egghead lawyer who’s inept in Washington gunfights and a pistol-totin’, lethal-injectin’, square-shouldered cowboy who has no patience for book learnin’.
FRIEDMAN: Fixing Arabia, Europe, China and the U.S.
Recasting any of these alone would be huge. Doing all four at once—when the world has never been more interconnected—is mind-boggling.
WAGNER: Coming soon, the Indiana Gridiron Dinner
Civility in politics isn’t dead. You just have to find the middle ground of funny.
STYRING: An Iron reason why Obama will lose in 2012
Mike Pence shouldn’t pop any champagne corks, though. Indiana gubernatorial elections have a nasty habit of running counter to national trends.
LADWIG: Chamber scores questionably on economy
We are left with the sobering realization that there is no lobby for free-market economics at the Statehouse.
VANE: A conversation with an Indianapolis sage
Where would we be without the P.E. MacAllisters of the world? Not just in politics—and there are many Democrats about whom we could ask the same question—but throughout all our society.
MYERS: Yes, an infant’s odds are better in Cuba
The failure to provide comprehensive pre-natal care is dreadful.