HUNT: A mea culpa over sale of Arvin Industries
The lesson here is that even a fully negotiated merger agreement is often overridden after closing by the board and management of the merged entity.
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KLIMEK: New securities commissioner faces challenges
By dedicating more resources to examination of proposed securities offerings and applications for licensing of investment professionals, the commissioner can do a better job of keeping investors from losing money in the first place.
BRAUN: It’s time to align training around careers
As 2015’s graduates pack away their caps and gowns and step out into the world, their quest shines a focus on the critical work facing our state in preparing Hoosiers for careers of the future.
ZWIRN: Pricey hospital turf wars fail Hoosier health
Are our not-for-profit hospitals planning and building to improve community health or to drive market share? Too often, it’s the latter.
PHILLIPS: What I’m learning from disruptions
At a high level, collaborative consumption aggregates consumers and technology to facilitate transactions between peers for underused assets.
HETRICK: For bicentennial, bring on good, bad, ugly
The Hoosier cynic in me said that what Indiana needs to do over the next half century is catch up with things the rest of the world accomplished 50 years ago—things like local government reform, competitive-with-the-nation wages that can support families, antidiscrimination laws that provide equal protection for all of our citizens, and protection of our state’s reputation from standup comedians and seven-figure PR firms.
COOK: Don’t hamstring development incentives
Is the Legislature doing enough to fund Skills Enhancement Fund and EDGE? The answer, in big bold letters, is no.
MASON: IPS should support talented teachers
Last year in April, I was mistakenly “fired.” I was in my third year of teaching at Harshman Magnet Middle School in Indianapolis Public Schools. My name appeared on a list sent out in error, releasing teachers based on the old “last in, first out” practice.
Advice for Indianapolis’ next mayor
The next few months will set the tone for a new administration and the city’s future. Based on our time in city and county leadership, we recommend the candidates give attention to the following civic paradoxes
OSBORNE: Methodist plan opens rare opportunity
Make no mistake about it. The $1 billion transformation of Indiana University Health’s Methodist Hospital campus at West 16th Street and Capitol Avenue will be a big deal. Consolidating University and Methodist hospitals will be the biggest single project on the near-north side in anyone’s memory.
SINK: Let us have our say on digital billboards
Does Indianapolis want the ban on digital billboards to be lifted? It’s hard to tell, since the public has been kept in the dark as billboard companies have been working behind the scenes to win support from city-county councilors for years.
MADDOX: Let’s enshrine golf in the Indiana Constitution, too
Thanks to our infamous Legislature, hunting and fishing will be on the ballot in 2016 to become protected rights in our constitution, placing them on par with free speech and freedoms of religion and the press.
Real critics call them like they see them
Heaven help me: I’m a paid critic. I’m different from the sort of gushing-praiser, or mindless hater on Yelp. I get to research, test and objectively review some of the most advanced computing gear in the industry, year after year.
GUTIERREZ: Indiana holds up well against Illinois
At the height of the controversy over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent letters to Hoosier businesses asking them to move to Chicago.
FERGUSON: Toward beneficent entrepreneurship
Beneficence, a bronze statue near my office at Ball State University, is a monument to innovation and philanthropy.
FRIEDMAN: Hoosiers throw Hoosiers under the bus
If I told you that a state agency, charged with protecting the interests of Hoosiers, actually endorsed the bid of an offshore equity fund to buy the Indiana Toll Road lease over a viable Hoosier bid, you wouldn’t believe it.
FISHER: The wonder of working with Michael Graves
Whenever I hear someone on TV talking about the road to the Final Four in Indianapolis, I pause to see which shots of the city they’ll show. Every time the NCAA headquarters Hall of Champions flashes on the screen, it’s an immediate source of pride for my colleague Kevin Shelley and me.
TITTLE: Time out on nursing home construction
Many challenges are coming down the pike for the long-term-care industry, the most immediate of which is from those who want to flood Indiana with opulent and expensive nursing homes that simply aren’t needed and, worse, drive up taxpayer costs.
WAGGONER: What I’ve learned from lawyers gone bad
Recent news of Hoosier attorneys donating $100,000 to the victims of disgraced Indiana lawyer Bill Conour prompts several thoughts about bad lawyers and the consequences for those victims.
BRIZZI: Netanyahu doesn’t deserve the bile
The Democratic response was embarrassing. Not only did it mock a twice-wounded and decorated war veteran who leads a nation purported to be our closest ally, but even more disturbing is the lack of historical perspective and empathy for what Israel and its people have endured throughout history.