We need a return to the type of civic responsibility and corporate investment that rebuilt Monument Circle, re-envisioned Circle Centre, and empowered employees to get involved in the downtown civic ecosystem.
Our lived experience is in stark contrast to the thinly veiled insulting words some nonresidents use to describe our neighborhoods and the business environment as of late.
It will take a collaborative effort from city officials, public safety, business owners and creatives to provide access to small-business owners and investors like myself who want to grow downtown and move forward, together.
To build on the attractiveness of the downtown residential sector, we should invest more in the kind of quality-of-life amenities we enjoy and seek out in other cities, like parks and open spaces, playgrounds, public art and public restrooms.
This means investments in affordable housing, new work opportunities, public safety, and enhancing downtown’s appearance and attractiveness.
There are commitments Indy’s regional business community must make to ensure today’s young Black professionals and other people of color feel a connection with our city. To do so, we must make a concerted effort toward equity.
With 72% of extremely low-income Hoosiers spending more than half their income on housing, Indiana is the Midwestern state with the highest housing-cost burden for the lowest-income residents.
The notion of reducing costs by turning to less-experienced providers is seductive. But studies find these changes have pushed costs up instead of down.
This Black History Month, let’s do something different. Learn about our culture. Be a change agent. Take steps to advance our causes.
Our state energy code is one of the most archaic in the country, and we are all paying a price for it.
States all across the country are experiencing a shortage of home-health workers. It’s a problem that is not going away anytime soon.
Indiana’s mental health care system was created in a bygone era, and despite many efforts over many years, it is still problematic today.
The Indiana U.S. Senate race is almost two years away, and already, an outside D.C.-based group is trying to pick our Republican candidate.
Evidence showing that access to regulated cannabis can improve public health outcomes is getting harder to ignore.
A recent national survey of apartment developers by the National Multifamily Housing Council concluded that 87.5% of developers steer clear of cities with rent-control ordinances when planning projects.
Our community—employers, philanthropy, parents, teachers and students—must come together to lift our schools and hold them accountable to the higher expectations required to thrive in today’s economy.
The longtime industry standard of negotiating hospital reimbursement as a discount on the hospital’s billed charges is being replaced with fixed rates based on what Medicare would pay for a given service.
The 2022 midterm elections broke the record for the greatest number of women elected to serve as a governor in the U.S.
While all members of the community pay to support their local schools through local property taxes, these funds support only certain public schools in the community—district-run public schools, leaving out public charter schools.
We must act quickly on both sides of the aisle to ensure families across the country get some much-needed relief.
