JAY & McCABE: Indiana’s plan for spending VW money falls short
Indiana should prioritize projects where diesel emissions are high and population is dense or particularly vulnerable.
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TEKOLSTE: Teacher shortage is a civil rights issue
Our legislators must act urgently and purposefully to provide incentives for high-performing individuals to become teachers and to stay in low-income urban and rural schools.
SASSO & SASSO: It’s not about mental illness
To challenge acrimonious language and call out vindictive behavior is not partisan; it is patriotic.
FELTMAN: First of a three-part letter to Jeff Bezos
Bbased on our history and trajectory, it’s a pretty good bet that Indiana will continue on the path of good and innovative government, allowing your company to operate more efficiently here, thus allowing you to hire more talented colleagues and make more investments in your company.
BOSTIC: Using AI to combat opioid abuse
Indiana is extremely progressive in its response to the opioid epidemic, pursuing a data-driven approach coupled with tactical steps to broaden access to treatment centers.
KENNEDY: When opportunity knocks
A thoughtful revamping of the I-65/I-70 split can improve traffic flow, restore community connectivity and spur new economic development downtown.
HILL: IndyGo plans must evolve
This is important stuff, way more so than whether we sell alcohol on Sunday.
OWENS: Let’s make an Amazonian commitment
Regardless of how this pitch and Amazon’s decision work out, let’s use this excitement and momentum to envision an Indianapolis positioned well for the next 50,000 jobs created, whether those jobs come in a smiling box or not.
FAIMON & LIENHOOP: University + community = collaboration
The city of Columbus and Indiana University in Bloomington have partnered to implement a new vision for architectural education that will build upon the community’s rich history of modernism and leverage it as a living laboratory for design discovery and invention.
MYSOGLAND: Baby-boomer biz owners might start selling
The baby-boomer generation is healthier and more active than its predecessor generations. Today, the average life span has increased to 76.2 years for a male and 81.1 for a female. So, if one is healthy and mentally and physically capable at 65, why exit?
SMITH: Demystifying university endowments
To ensure donor endowment gifts generate income that keeps up with inflation, we do not spend all the investment returns each year.
GUY: When scholarships are like ear muffs
In the context of annual higher education expenses of $15,000 to $60,000, these grants represent little more than lunch money and minor relief for parents.
MUSGRAVE: Buyers in for the long haul care about firm culture
Sure, you can have a profitable company with a toxic culture, but for how long?
KENNEDY: 2017—Goodbye and good riddance
I’m very happy to bid farewell to a depressing year in which I’ve watched America being dismantled to benefit the president and his cronies.
FELTMAN: More good Trump in 2018, please
Here’s to a less riddled, mysterious and enigmatic 2018.
ROSS: A tax credit that works for Indiana
Compared with new construction, rehabilitation projects spend a larger percentage of costs on skilled labor, tend to keep wages and materials dollars within the community, and result in renovated buildings that tend to last longer and retain value longer than comparable new construction.
PITTSFORD: Don’t skip succession planning in family businesses
Only 30 percent of family businesses make it to the second generation, and only 15 percent make it to the third generation
GIGERICH: Make changes to venture capital tax credit
By making the tax credit refundable or transferable, investments in Indiana companies would become more attractive to investors at a time our 20 percent tax credit value is lower than that of many “best in class” entrepreneurial states.
ZWIRN: Tax bills betray GOP principles
The Republican tax bills stand among the most backward-thinking pieces of tax legislation since the 1920s.
FELTMAN: Why an avid IBJ reader became an owner
To ensure IBJ’s future, you will see us take chances and go in new directions in the coming months and years.