Increasing importance of summer jobs for students
The school year is winding down and high school and college students alike are looking for summer jobs or internships. In some...
HIPAA rules confuse Hoosiers
Recent cases in Indiana have revealed the inconsistent and hard-to-decipher rules protecting patient records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
Indiana’s new privacy law is not road ready
Despite Congress’ failure to enact a national privacy law, several states have implemented their own privacy rules. Just this year, five states...
A journalist discovers politics
Nikki Kelly, in a column for the news organization Indiana Capital Chronicle, expresses a forlorn disappointment in Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch. (Monday,...
Hard-right turn for Lt. Gov. Crouch
The Suzanne Crouch I have covered for more than a decade has never really been about politics — she has been about...
Americans rediscover the summer picnic
It’s a positive trend that I hope continues: the resurgence of summer picnics.
According to Mental Floss, the Covid...
Property: Imagine it anew
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
Money, illusion and the state budget
Indiana’s legislative session addressed some of the most vexing public problems the state faces: hospital monopolies, housing, collapse in college attendance and...
Elected officials might deserve raises, but not this way
As parents, more than once my husband and I told our then-teenaged daughter, “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” Looking back...
Re-thinking economic development
The most recent Census survey reported 34 million Americans working fully remote, and more than 4 in 10 workers nationwide working remotely...