Mary Kay Huse: Hoosier state’s passion puts Indiana on volleyball map
The stats and the history are there to warrant Indiana’s place as a premier volleyball community.
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Chris Ercoli: Growing Indiana’s economy without raising energy bills
This proposal allows a limited number of very large businesses to buy their electricity from private power providers instead of the utility.
Kelly Karbowicz Riley: Philanthropy helped IPS reach historic graduation rates
Over the past seven years, our supporters have invested more than $25 million in postsecondary readiness initiatives because they believed in what IPS students could achieve when given the right resources and support.
Rep. Alex Burton: As data centers grow, Indiana must lead, not react
I am working to develop a standardized, statewide framework for evaluating data center projects.
Jeffrey Harrison: Investment yields robust water system that benefits all
Citizens has developed a 50-year water resource plan and added more than 50 million gallons of water per day of supply and more than 100 million gallons of water per day of water transfer capacity to our system.
Gary Langston, Vanessa Green Sinders and Andrew Berger: Businesses need lawmakers to act on tort reform now
As we look across the country at a legal system trending anti-business, both in verdicts and unpredictability, we want to restore fairness and balance to our system by modernizing tort law.
Greg Hinz: The Bears’ Indiana feint may be paying off—in Arlington Heights
Suddenly, the Illinois folks are optimistic, almost bubbly about prospects of finalizing an Arlington Heights deal.
Chris Bailey: Progress, partnership and a safer downtown Indy
Violent crime was down nearly 8% in 2025 from the previous year. Property crime dropped almost 10%.
Chuck Magro and Zippy Duvall: Let American farmers contribute to American energy
Passing year-round E15 is a common-sense action Congress can take, right now, to support American farmers, lower prices at the pump and create a brighter future for this country.
Andrew Neal: Why I voted ‘yes’ on school reform recommendations
Doing nothing is not acceptable. The status quo places the greatest burden on families with the least resources.
Rep. Kyle Pierce: Indiana should lead on digital asset innovation
HB 1042 would require several state-administered retirement programs to offer cryptocurrency ETFs as standard investment options, allowing Hoosiers to diversify their portfolios within a regulated framework.
Mayor Joe Hogsett: A collaborative future of Indianapolis public education
To remain the same was not an option. And to resist any sort of real, local consideration of the matter would have only hurt our city and its students in the long run.
David Harris: Let’s not waste opportunity to measure what matters
Test scores remain important point-in-time measures of student progress. But they should be the means to an end, not the goal.
Matt Mindrum: Public safety is improving. Now it’s time to accelerate.
Violent crime, including homicides and non-fatal shootings, is down almost 20% from 2024.
Karen Jung: State must lead in AI literacy as it has in computer science
As we close out national CS Education Week, we’re asking parents, educators, policymakers and other community leaders to join us in this critical effort.
Ahnaf Tahmid: How a district found $15M to fund workforce investment
When we stop managing decline and start hunting for efficiency, we can solve our biggest challenges without asking the taxpayers for a bailout.
Rep. Sue Errington: Indiana is pulling the rug out from under working families
Working parents who are teachers, fast food workers, restaurant servers, checkout clerks and other hourly employees now face impossible choices between paying for care and keeping their jobs.
Dr. Bradley Allen and Dr. Jennifer Choi: Partnerships provide backbone to physician education
The Indiana University School of Medicine sponsors more than 160 residencies and fellowships in a broad range of specialties across Indiana.
Anne Hazlett and Marvin Richardson: Employers need to invest in workers’ mental health
As co-chairs of the Indiana Mental Health Roundtable, we recently hosted a summit of business, government, health care and nonprofit leaders to discuss and collaborate on the “Business of Mental Health.”
Ralph Durrett Jr.: Fostering culture, comprehension and human connection
Too many well-intentioned programs have unintentionally disempowered the very communities they aim to help. Instead of cultivating capacity, America has built systems that create dependency.