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.
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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.
Lesley Weidenbener: Tips for talking with journalists
Just like most of us don’t really understand how a manufacturing process works or how molecules in a lab become medicine, readers generally don’t understand how journalists take in information and send it back out for public consumption.
George Gemelas: Sen. Braun’s climate leadership sets stage for progress
With Main Street entrepreneurial spirit, Sen. Braun and his peers have rolled up their sleeves and gotten to work.
Dan O’Toole: A better mailbox and secure drone delivery is on horizon
What this means to consumers is a fixture at the end of driveways across the world for more than 160 years is about to get a reboot. The ubiquitous mailbox—not much changed since 1858—is getting an update.
Letter: Hoosier reps must protect consumers
Since the time of the American Revolution, usury rate caps have been used by states to protect consumers from exorbitant interest rates.
In the workplace: How to overcome gender double standards
Investment fund management continues to be male dominated, and, unsurprisingly, funds go primarily to male founders. Things don’t change because those with power don’t have a strong impetus to upset the status quo.
Cecil Bohanon & Nick Curott: Economic fix requires more than jobless reforms
The problem is not so much a lack of available jobs.
Pete the Planner: Encourage grads to start saving for retirement now
New grads will face many challenges, but if they address the retirement challenge from the very beginning, everything else will fall into place.
Letter: Unemployment benefits are disincentive to work
It’s not “Donald Trump’s immigration policy” and his “disdain for Black and brown people” (ridiculous statements) that are keeping hospitality workers in short supply. Laborers are few in a lot of industries these days.
Mickey Kim: Mr. Spock would find ‘SPAC-mania’ totally illogical
Unlike regular companies, SPACs are “shell companies” with no commercial operations at the time of their IPO.
Patrick Cross: Health and life sciences trends for 2021 and beyond
Emerging from the pandemic, health and life sciences companies have a unique opportunity to leverage lessons learned for the benefit of the patients they serve.
Bohanon & Curott: Taxing capital gains like job income is bad idea
Taxing dividends and capital gains encourages too much consumption and too little savings, which is to the long-term detriment of households and the larger economy.
Mike Lopresti: Baseball is coming back to Victory Field
What happens to a ballpark when it must sit idle for so long? Maybe we should ask the guy who takes care of the place.
In the workplace: Innovation can bring better work-life balance
As executives, one way we grow our impact and scale our performance is by creating standard operating procedures for our team. So why can’t we do that for ourselves when distinguishing between work and life?
Editorial: Holcomb’s regional grant program holds great promise
READI will encourage neighboring counties, cities and towns to partner and apply for grants of up to $50 million per region.
Lesley Weidenbener: Buying, selling and reporting the deal
Merger and acquisition stories can seem straightforward enough, but they’re often complicated by the companies’ decisions to keep the financial terms confidential, the desire of the parties to control the message to their employees and customers, and the emotions inevitably wrapped up in these transactions.