Jade Thomas: Benjamin Harrison site offers lessons for leadership
There’s no instruction manual for leadership. There is no template. Our leadership is informed by our experiences with others and our inclination toward learning.
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Darryl Lockett & Corey Wilson: Solving today’s challenges demands ‘sneaker diplomacy’
Solving today’s challenges demands what we call “sneaker diplomacy,” the kind of two-way understanding that comes from walking a mile or two in someone else’s kicks.
Letter: The meaning of words matters
In the past year, how many times have we seen or heard the words “equity,” “inclusion,” “diversity,” “systemic racism,” “social justice”? These are language terms that have been driven into the American mindset and culture and glommed onto by so many organizations and businesses and political groups.
Letter: Kudos to solar power
I firsthand am receiving the benefits of generating my own power, and with net metering, being part of the solution of the grid and not the problem.
Letters: IU Indianapolis is good name choice
If a name change for IUPUI is in order, only the Indiana University name would be of immediate value. Any other name would have to build a reputation over a period of years.
In the workplace: Be transparent in calling workers back to office
As a result, businesses large and small are calling their workers to return to the office this summer and fall, perhaps with the anticipatory sense that, since “we built it, they will come.”
Bohanon and Curott: Understanding the fungibility of US foreign aid
To the extent Hamas spends some of its resources on providing humanitarian aid, an expansion of the United States’ humanitarian aid enables Hamas to divert some of its resources to expand militarization.
George Lessmeister: Help wanted: What are job seekers looking for?
While businesses think they can be choosy with new hires, job seekers can and will be choosy, too. Job seekers have a lot of choices right now.
Indy Beacons: Vonnegut family had multi-generational influence on the city
One of the most notable multi-generational stories of Indianapolis as home is that of the Vonneguts, a 150-plus-year history that includes the contributions of entrepreneurs, architects, community leaders and servants, scientists, and writers, whose works live on in the city today.
Editorial: It’s time to rethink IUPUI
IU’s incoming president, Pamela Whitten, and Purdue President Mitch Daniels should start talking now about how to give IUPUI the opportunity to move into the next tier of excellence—and that probably means a name change.
Nate Feltman: Waking up from my political hangover
Let’s examine some water cooler chatter about the 2024 governor’s race (even though it’s early).
Sheila Kennedy: Holcomb, Rokita and the radicalization of the GOP
Our ambitious attorney general has cast his lot with those Republicans, who—it must be admitted—are representative of what the Grand Old Party has become.
Sue Ellspermann & Daniel Elsener: One effort to diversify Indiana’s teaching corps
We are all aware of the significant teacher shortage plaguing our state. It is incumbent upon our universities, both public and private, to aggressively recruit highly qualified and talented individuals to lead Hoosier classrooms.
Letter: Net metering is key to solar
If net metering goes away, many solar owners would buy battery storage and hoard energy for their own use and not share back to the grid.
Sports: Indy 500 fan attends 78th race (or 79th?)
Dr. Richard Bennett’s perfect-attendance mark for the race is a wonder to behold, a feat of devotion likely unmatched by any fan of any sport in any place.
Jalene Hahn: Don’t wait: Have the money talk before you tie the knot
Existing debt is often a contentious topic especially if one party has a disproportionate amount. Deciding how to tackle the debt will impact other priorities.
Bohanon & Curott: Consumer price index changes justify inflation concerns
The Treasury and the Federal Reserve are spinning the story that the CPI spike was more a by-product of unique COVID related realities than an underlying indication of a rising rate of inflation.
Mike Lopresti: Baseball’s back
Good times have been happening all over the place, even if hardly anyone has been allowed in to watch.
Urban Design: Gender is too often ignored in city design
In the design of our cities, we too often default to the average male as a stand-in for everyone.
Editorial: It’s time for city’s mask mandate to go
The CDC said last week that it’s safe for vaccinated people to be indoors without masks, prompting a number of communities that have imposed even stricter limits than Indianapolis to eliminate their mandates for face coverings and limits on the number of people who can gather indoors.