June 2, 2008
Mitch Roob oversees a state agency with a $6.5 billion budget and thousands of employees who deliver a range of services to
more than a million Hoosiers. And he'd be lost without his BlackBerry. He is just one of the many Indianapolis professionals
who use enhanced mobile devices, or smartphones, to keep tabs on their work and increase their productivity away from the
office.
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April 21, 2008
Andy Fry has played in five bands in the past 10 years or so, serving in various capacities, including singer/songwriter.
He and his seven bandmates of Indianapolis-based Margot and the Nuclear So and So's have just recorded their second album,
"Animal!"
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March 31, 2008
Away from the job, Monte Agee is like any other family man. But in his 12 years as a tattoo artist, he has inked everything
from pop-culture icons such as the Powerpuff Girls to Renaissance-style portraits of biblical figures and full-color scenes
straight out of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
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March 24, 2008
When Unique Home Solutions owner Bob Dillon started thinking about retirement, he knew he didn't want to sell his company
to the highest bidder. After all, he and his 125 employees worked hard to establish a corporate culture that has helped the
service firm triple revenue in recent years-and win the Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for marketplace ethics four times.
So like a growing number of baby boomers, Dillon is planning to sell the business to his staff through...
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February 25, 2008
Less than a month after starting a job she didn't know she wanted, Indiana Black Expo CEO Tanya Bell has big plans for the
nation's oldest and largest group of its kind. Bell wants to diversify the statewide organization's revenue stream and expand
its already-impressive roster of more than 100 corporate sponsors. Doing that will mean raising awareness of the year-round
programs that have been overshadowed by IBE's two signature events: its annual Summer Celebration and Circle City Classic
football...
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February 11, 2008
An Indianapolis law firm has filed a class-action suit seeking more than $20 million from a pair of financial-services firms
it says facilitated the transactions that allowed a New Jersey couple to plunder cemetery trust funds. Cohen & Malad LLP filed
the lawsuit late last month on behalf of thousands of customers of Indianapolis-based Memory Gardens Management Corp., which
owns Memory Gardens in Greenwood, Lincoln Memory Gardens in Boone County and other cemeteries. The defendants are the company,
New York-based...
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February 4, 2008
If Brightpoint Inc. wants to keep its place at the top of the cell phone distribution business, its leaders know they can't
expect to rest on their laurels. That's why the Plainfield-based company hired mobile industry veteran Bashar Nejdawi to spearhead
an effort to expand Brightpoint's so-called mobile enhancement business, selling add-ons that enhance a phone's functionality,
such as hands-free devices, battery chargers, phone cases and software. The company already offers such accessories, but has
not seen substantial success outside...
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.