Tony Mason: Why a riot ‘is the language of the unheard’
What we are experiencing in our city, and cities across our country, is the language of pain when people’s spirits are broken and they move beyond hopelessness to outrage.
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Nate Feltman: Crimes against innocent people, property cannot be tolerated
We all were taught early that two wrongs don’t make a right. What has happened to our city is inexcusable.
2020 Innovation Issue: How the experts do it
Design thinking is generally described as a five-step process, with specific names for each step. But in reality, the people and companies that use design thinking adapt their own take on it, by combining or breaking out some of the steps or using a more conceptual approach.
Mandy Haskett: Why now is an odd—but perfect—time to hire great talent
This large displacement of human capital has left some of the best and brightest talent in search of their next trail to blaze.
Tom Guevara: Communities need to plan now to rebuild after COVID-19
But drawing on my federal agency experience helping economically distressed areas and now leading an institute helping communities make better economic decisions, here is how leaders can create an economic recovery plan.
Chris Watts: Consumer spending, sales taxes show Indiana’s budget challenge
If sales taxes continue to fall in tandem with income taxes, the results would be crushing for Indiana; we collect more than half our general fund revenue from sales taxes (the 50-state average is about 31%).
Letter: How many Hoosiers will die because of Tyson?
Workers are being forced to choose between their health and a paycheck they need to survive.
EDITORIAL: Pandemic is opportunity to rethink burdensome rules
For as much as government has been chided in some business circles for shutting down the economy—and that certainly has happened—officials have in other ways worked quickly to clear the path for business to innovate and adjust.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Entrepreneurs are best equipped to pull us out of this mess
Epic levels of unemployment and declines in GDP take time to repair, even if we get good news such as better remedies or an effective vaccine. There are at least two reasons why.
Liz Malatestinic: New normal? It’s the evolving normal.
Perhaps the biggest key to making effective plans in all this is flexibility.
Editorial: Delta’s Indy-to-Paris flight is still worth fighting for
The Indianapolis International Airport’s journey back from the coronavirus crisis won’t be complete—and the city and state won’t be made whole—without the return of nonstop service overseas.
Marina Hadjioannou Waters: Communication—with all communities—is critical in a crisis
We must provide as many people as possible access to health and safety information in their primary language. Failure to do so threatens the health of every one of us.
Kenny Blickenstaff: Pandemic helps explode the investment diversification myth
Reality seems to echo Warren Buffett, who famously stated, “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
Letter: IndyGo vitriol is unwarranted
The state law that requires IndyGo to raise private funds is a poison pill promulgated to punish a successful vote.
Letter: See your doctor, but do it safely
At Hancock Health, we believe the key to unlocking patients’ reluctance to seek treatment lies in implementing a robust safety plan.
Mitch Daniels: Beware of the pandemic of second-guessing
I’m worried about preventing a sickness, one we’ve been through before—much more recently than the last pandemic flu.
MAGGIE PHELPS: Clarity comes in the still chaos of life at home
Companies, just like individuals, are learning hard lessons right now, too, clinging to old ways of doing things while grasping for creative solutions.
EDITORIAL: Federal formula for sending virus aid to states is out of whack
Indiana has the 12th-highest COVID-19 death rate in the United States, but its share of federal money intended to help states battle the pandemic isn’t nearly so high. And that’s a problem. Not just for Indiana but for every state fighting to keep from being overwhelmed by the virus but receiving a disproportionately small share […]
FRAN QUIGLEY: Holcomb team’s warnings to unemployed are inaccurate
Indiana law is clear that unemployed workers are not required to accept offers of employment or reemployment if conditions are not “suitable.”
KEVIN BETZ: Indiana should follow cautious approach of surrounding states
We now have a five-stage tangled web of differing and undefined “capacities” that are all voluntary and admittedly unenforceable and will quickly be seen as entirely optional.