If a group of parents request that certain material be removed from the classroom, that is not censorship or “book banning.” Is that a provocative statement? I don’t think it should be.
According to the most recent International Trade Association data available through the Small Business Administration, small businesses represent 97.7% of the U.S. firms that export goods to other countries. In fact, they account for over one-third of the United States’ known export value.
Two decades ago, as a brand-new professor, I worked with a team of researchers studying health care access in rural West Virginia. Our goal was to identify ways to measure the effects of missing medical treatment or barriers that might cause patients from following up with health care. This …
State Rep. Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, chairs the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee, the source for tax and budget bills. He entered the House in 1994, was appointed as chair of the committee in 2012, and is about to retire. I don’t think we’ve ever met, and I have no bone to pick with…
In September, The Wall Street Journal published “The Facebook Files,” a scathing investigative report into the social media conglomerate. The series cited internal memos that appear to demonstrate Facebook’s awareness of practices that negatively affect its users and the media environment as…
Today, many businesses struggle to hire the workers they need. Whatever the causes, this current challenge will surely prompt widespread changes by employers. This type of adjustment isn’t a new phenomenon, but economists allocate very little time explaining the mechanics of change. Nor do w…
Arthur Ampersand, associate assistant deputy director at the state’s economic development bureau (EDB), announced Indiana is winning the civil war for good jobs.
Here’s the remarkable opening sentence of one of the many stories about the Hoosier GOP’s “disputed” and “contentious” redistricting plan:
At the conclusion of a recent Allen County Commissioner meeting, the commission president became annoyed with a woman who refused to shut up when her allotted time expired under the public speaking rules. He warned her that people not following the rules risked having no public comment at all.
Construction spending was flat in August from July, according to the Census Bureau’s release Oct. 1. Private residential spending rose 0.4% on the month, but new single family construction spending was actually down 0.7% and multifamily spending down 0.8%; spending on improvements must have …
Many business leaders are reluctant to say so publicly, but President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is a welcomed gift. It offers them and their employees a relatively easy way to dodge what may be a looming health insurance price spike.
With 1,451 Hoosier COVID-19 deaths in the past 90 days, with the General Assembly making redistricting a private party, the deadline for READI proposals goes unnoticed.
I did some really stupid things when I was young and dumb. Who didn’t?
On the heels of President Biden’s announcement of imminent OSHA rules that may require certain employers to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, companies have more questions than answers. Though in the wake of this uncertainty, there are a few things that companies should keep top of mind when dev…
Last week we breezed through the migration of people into Indiana between 2015 and 2019. This week we speed up the process and look at the outmigration from Indiana with the resulting net- and gross migration figures.
Many business leaders are reluctant to say so publicly, but President Biden’s vaccine mandate is a welcomed gift. It offers them and their employees a relatively easy way to dodge what may be a looming health insurance price spike. For businesses that find it hard to hire and keep workers, t…
I’m a little worried. I think I’m starting to understand Gov. Holcomb.
When you’ve made the transition from someone else’s employee to being your own boss, you gain the autonomy to create your own professional path. You get additional responsibilities, as well — including paying self-employment tax.
With this 20th anniversary of 9/11, many Americans naturally feel conflicted about our role in Afghanistan. Whatever we each feel should be tempered by the realization that our fight against the extremists who attacked us 20 years ago is ongoing. We have forces deployed to dozens of nations …
SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF WIMBERLEY, TEXAS — I’m sitting on the deck at the Roadrunner Ranch, my brother’s place in Hill Country, Texas.
Where are all these new people coming from? Throughout Indiana, folks are asking this question. Now we have answers covering the last half-decade (2015-19) from the American Community Survey. After gathering data from 17.7 million (15%) of 120.7 million households nationwide, the Census Bure…
With shrinking attention spans and the impact of visual media, writing effectively is more challenging than ever before. To learn more about how writers can stand out in this environment, I recently spoke with Fort Wayne native Andy Welfle, Senior Experience Content Design Manager at Adobe a…
My phone buzzed. “Hello,” he said. “I’ll write your column this week.”
The Labor Day weekend came in the wake of a turbulent pandemic, accompanied by record high unemployment followed abruptly by concerns about a labor shortage. These facts occasion some introspection about the future of work in America. To do so means recognizing the current and likely future …
The last decade saw considerable concern over rising income inequality in the United States. Academic work by Thomas Piketty and the populist backlash that fueled the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump brought this concern to mainstream America. Over the past few years…
On the one hand, the little kerfuffle at Fort Wayne’s Northrop High School is too trifling to make a big deal of.
Personal income rose 1.1% in July after a 0.2% increase in June (revised up from 0.1% in the prior release). Wage and salary income rose 1.0% in July as payroll employment surged by nearly a million. Proprietors’ income (income businesses generate for their owners) dipped 0.2% on the month a…
Social media is everywhere and its use has only grown through the pandemic. And because virtually all job applicants have access to social media on their phone or personal computer, this means virtually every job applicant has created a social media footprint. Which can provide valuable insi…
Earlier this month, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) passed the U.S. Senate in an overwhelming bipartisan vote. This legislation launches a multi-year $1 trillion effort to improve roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, broadband, the electrical grid and other mostly …
On CBS-TV’s “Sunday Morning” this week, a former Army sergeant who left parts of both arms and legs in Afghanistan came on and tried to say something positive in the face of our ugly retreat from that country.
Industrial production rose a very strong 0.8% in July, with a huge 11.2% increase in auto production. Production is now back to its pre-pandemic level.
Starting a business and going from working for someone else to being your own boss brings excitement and opportunities. It also comes with some big adjustments — not only for you but also for your family.
Retail sales fell 1.1% in July, according to the Census Bureau, a larger decline than the 0.2% consensus drop expected. Sales excluding autos fell 0.4%, and sales excluding autos and gasoline fell 0.7%. Control sales — sales excluding autos, gasoline, food service, and building materials, an…
My 18-month work-from-home experience has come to a formal end. No one, except maybe my wife, is more excited than I. The experience has caused me to muse upon the leadership and management differences the COVID pandemic yielded, and what the effect on individual business and the workplace m…
Early in my newspaper career, I learned that our education reporter had tried to engineer a takeover of the school board behind the scenes.
Buffalo Wings & Ribs Family Restaurant announced Aug. 10 that its 4636 Coldwater Road store will be carry-out only until it increases its staffing. It also is shortening its hours.
Three points to ponder if for some reason you have put “diversity” on your list of things to agonize over today.
The U.S. economy added 934,000 jobs in July, according to a survey of employers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was above the consensus expectation for July of 880,000, and was the best month for job growth since August 2020. Job growth in June was revised sharply higher to 938,000…
First Merchants Corp. has reported second-quarter 2021 net income of $55.6 million compared to $33 million during the same period in 2020.
When I last spoke to Juan Leon, he still hadn’t opened his two Don Taco restaurants because of COVID-19. Now they’re both open, the newest one at 4037 Ice Way down from Skyline Chili having opened the last week of July. His other location is at 4210 Crescent Ave., across from Purdue Fort Way…
In May, Gov. Eric Holcomb’s announced an early end to pandemic unemployment assistance. This decision was a rare policy mistake for an administration that had spent more than a year handling COVID with admirable attention to data and good judgement. The mistake was also unusual in that the p…
For those who haven’t been keeping up with the Congressional Clown Car, a quick update:
According to a Livestream and New York Magazine survey, 80 percent of brand audiences would rather watch live video than read a blog, and 82 percent prefer live video over social media posts.
The year of the pandemic was also the year of TikTok — at least among the youngest social media users.
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