Voices

After my son Ethan was born with Down syndrome, I began to integrate financial planning for families with special needs individuals into my practice at Oak Partners. Over the past 11 years, I have continued to gain more and more experience with this...

Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. I grew up in an underprivileged housing community with my divorced mother fighting to bring herself an education and lift us out of poverty (which she did).  No one paid...

HAMMOND and WESTVILLE, Ind. – Purdue University Northwest (PNW) released the following statement, which was developed collaboratively by representatives of its students, faculty and staff. A message from the Purdue Northwest Campus Community...

With stocks marching back toward levels seen at the beginning of the year, investment statements are looking much less unsettling than they were a few weeks ago. While investors I talk to are reassured by the recovery in stocks, they are also at the...

I didn’t think we would ever get there, and while the concept fills me with curiosity, I am also quite anxious about the idea of negative interest rates in the U.S. Nevertheless, this week President Trump referred to negative interest rates as a...

Because of the progress Indiana has made in slowing the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Holcomb announced that, as of Friday, May 22, Indiana will be operating under Stage 3 of the Back on Track plan to reopen Indiana’s economy. Some of the highlights of...

Dear Neighbor, We are casting a wide net and reaching out to as many of our Northwest Indiana neighbors as possible with the following message. Please feel free to share this message with your family, friends and associates. These are unimaginable...

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana’s mission is to inspire and enable the youth of our communities to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. As an organization that serves only school-aged...

I am answering the same question a couple times every day now, “Marc, with the economy shut down and everyone locked down at home, how can the stock market be going up?” It is a great question, and I wish I had the entire answer. To be candid, I...

In an effort to expand COVID-19 testing to as many Hoosiers as possible, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is partnering with OptumServe Health Services to offer COVID-19 test sites across the state. Hoosiers who have symptoms of COVID-19...