ETZKORN: ‘Tsunami’ of business sales coming soon
More than half of all businesses are owned by baby boomers and, while they may be working past age 65, eventually they will retire.
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WHEELER: School transformation is making noise
In business, changes in the marketplace drive decisions to turn around a poor-performing business unit, division or entire company.
KANNING: Improved productivity isn’t good enough
The latest prolonged recession intensified the push for U.S. productivity gains.
YOUNG: Why I voted for the debt reduction bill
The decision to support the debt limit package, the so-called Budget Control Act, was not an easy one, but one that should be regarded as a meaningful and responsible first step on the path back to economic health.
KENNEDY: TIFs have gone from good idea to bad
The Ballard administration is proposing to turn large swatches of the urban core into TIFs, robbing school districts and libraries of desperately needed revenue.
THOMAS: Get thoughts in writing to keep your group’s story straight
As you might guess, when I got the e-mailed responses, they didn’t support the contention that “everybody knows” the program’s objectives.
SLAUGHTER: The lowdown on why you can’t find a job
The greatest challenge in landing a new gig is making a tremendous shift in perspective.
NAGLE: Beware Indiana labor force losses over next 20 years
Over the next 10 years, baby boomers will begin to retire en masse. By 2030, we can expect about 18 percent of Indiana’s population to be age 65 or older, up from 12 percent today.
GARNER: Diversity leads to economic success
Creativity comes not from the brilliance of one person, or a singular “ah ha” moment, but from a collision of ideas.
KENNEDY: A regulatory no-brainer could save lives
Cell phone users in the United States can’t choose to have radio on our phones because, when the ability to download first threatened the music industry’s business model, the carriers thought including broadcast radio would undermine their ability to sell music packages.
JOSEPH: Is working for yourself or for others riskier?
In business ownership, individual performance is the key indicator of success.
GUY: I have no predictions about the future
Those who try to predict the future do not tell us their track records, but they do ask us to buy their books.
WHEELER: A case for improving city’s balance sheet
Education is an investment in which our city is expected to see a positive rate of return for every dollar invested and every degree earned.
KENNEDY: We need to get our civics game on
Right now, Americans are deeply involved in one of our periodic debates about government spending and the budget deficit. Important as that is, I am more concerned about our civic deficit—the widespread lack of basic constitutional literacy.
HENDERSON: On power players and the future of kids
We expect IPS to take its students to the very pillars of academic success after thoroughly hog-tying them. It’s difficult to find more breathless insanity than this.
DECKERS: What are customers tweeting about you?
Where were you when you first heard about Osama Bin Laden? Did you hear about it on Twitter and Facebook? On TV? Or did you see it on the front page of the morning paper, 10 hours after the rest of the world?
SLAUGHTER: We need a remote-work revolution
It turns out that, although we think of glass towers, cubicles and filing cabinets as the places where we go to accomplish something, the office is a terrible place to get anything done.
GROSSMAN: Here we go again with ‘blueprint to nowhere’
For the umpteenth time since the early 1970s, a president of the United States has issued a plan for solving all our energy ills.
KENNEDY: Legislature’s bottom line is political
Many Indiana citizens have been hit hard by the recession, and the General Assembly has reacted by kicking them while they’re down.
CROWTHER: The future needs a Hoosier attitude
We need futurists, people with a sense of balance, people who want generations to come to be blessed with the same riches we grew up with.