LETTER: Opioid crisis hasn’t disappeared
As more patients reschedule their surgeries that were postponed due to COVID-19, it is crucial we provide them addiction-free options to manage their pain.
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Millennial Money: 4 expert tips to get hired from home
The interview process could be mostly, or entirely, virtual—even if the job itself isn’t slated to be. Standard interview advice still applies: Dress professionally, ask smart questions and so on. But you should also adopt a few new best practices.
Letter: EPA action needed to create good jobs
In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency included a pathway for bio-intermediates in its proposed rulemaking, but this rule has yet to be finalized.
EDITORIAL: Wear a mask and be part of the solution
Wearing a mask is not giving in to the pandemic. It is just the opposite. It is the way we push forward with our personal and professional lives without spreading a disease that—if left unchecked—will continue to wreak havoc on our economy.
Letter: City’s boards lack diversity
Until we see these ceilings crashed, we will be talking about systemic racism for generations in this city I love.
Mandy Haskett: Three variables will make or break successful return to the office
Culture, we all know, eats strategy for breakfast. And yet, leaders often focus on the tangible, more measurable elements of their strategy they can comfortably see better—ignoring the softer, less visible aspects that make organizations truly healthy.
Editorial: Mayor must step up to lead the rebuilding of downtown
In the first year of his second term, the mayor has an opportunity to make rebuilding downtown in a way that’s economically inclusive his signature achievement in office.
Tanya Bell Mckinzie: Fight systemic racism by leveling field for Black-owned businesses
Creating new businesses and expanding opportunities for existing Black-owned businesses are key ways to invest in the Black community and help us fight for racial equality.
Sheila Suess Kennedy: Our hyper-partisan politics can be deadly
In today’s highly polarized America, an individual’s self-identification as Republican or Democrat has come to signify a wide range of attitudes and beliefs not necessarily limited to support for a political party. Affiliation with a political party has made Americans’ increasingly tribal social identities most predictive—and most consequential.
Letter: Masks should join other requirements
You shouldn’t be allowed to emit your saliva into a public space during a pandemic of a disease that is transmissible by aerosol because it’s a public health issue.
Letter: Police unions inhibit change
Union collective bargaining agreements are protecting the few bad police officers, to the detriment of all of our safety.
Editorial: City should diversify partnerships
Opening opportunities for Black Americans and other groups means rethinking not just how we do things but why we do them the way we do. And then amending or even ripping those systems apart and rebuilding them.
Karen Bravo: Here are two ways we are addressing systemic racism
As a lawyer and law professor, I believe I can contribute by using both my legal skills and my public role as incoming dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Abbey Chambers: To battle racism, apply a racial lens to policymaking
The argument that small businesses should be protected from the burdens of paying livable wages does not consider the burdens low wages put on individuals (of color) who are left struggling to navigate the insufficient, overly complex and stigmatized social safety net.
Letter: Columnist right to criticize destruction
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz rightly made the distinction between demonstrators and rioters and did not attempt to validate the actions of the latter.
Letter: Listen to scientists
Much as I, personally, would love to get back to a “normal” situation, I am willing to delay gratification and proceed with much thought and discussion on activities we would love to resume.
Letter: Cities abused by police unions
Language in collective bargaining agreements tying the hands of local officials to discipline or terminate poor performance should never have been allowed at all and is likely in conflict with state law.
Garrett Mintz: What vulnerability means as an executive
It can be tough to break through our shell and show vulnerability, but the initial investment pays dividends.
COOPER: Retain customers and expand market share through COVID-19
You have massive opportunity right now to start and grow a business if you assess market trends and respond accordingly.
Editorial: Treat Waterside rezoning with care
Any industrial uses permitted by city should be in sync with grand vision of creating an office, residential hub.