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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
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Circuit City and HHGregg
November 20, 2008
Comments(14)How can it be that Circuit City is bankrupt and HHGregg is still going strong? Both companies sell electronics
to consumers, though Gregg also deals in appliances.
Part of the reason may be found in how they treat their sales staffs.
Circuit...
MoreSmoking ban back on the table
November 19, 2008
Comments(26)Smoking in public places is in retreat across the country, and now Charlie Brown, the state representative
from Gary, wants to ban it in bars, casinos and other enclosed places in Indiana.
Brown plans to introduce a bill during...
MoreA tiny Indiana bank and the bailout
November 18, 2008
Comments(7)Newton County Loan & Savings bank couldnâ??t be more out of the way â?? or more relevant in this day
of
government bailouts.
The thrift is in Goodland, a burg between Lafayette and Chicago, and has all of $7.3 million in...
MoreBail out Detroit?
November 17, 2008
Comments(3)Two schools of thought are emerging over the proposed bailout of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
One is that the auto industry is too big to fail. Itâ??s not just because of the manufacturing operations
and all the suppliers...
MoreWhatâ??s next for Daniels?
November 12, 2008
Comments(12)Mitch Daniels has plenty of reason to feel good about himself these days.
Last week, he won reelection in a landslide after cutting a wake through a change-averse state, and without
going negative on his opponent, Jill Long Thompson.
Daniels also needs...
MoreAnother day, another ranking
November 12, 2008
Comments(3)Small-town newspaper editors know that the more names of people they cram into each issue, the better the
chances someone will pick up the paper.
Now the principle has caught on in a big way with the largest publications â?? and...
MoreGrading racism on a curve
November 11, 2008
Comments(8)An Indiana University committee made the right call yesterday when it recommended leaving the name of a segregationist
on an athletics facility, says a Ball State University historian.
John Mathew Glen says the committee appropriately recognized contributions of former judge and...
MoreSecrecy and animal testing
November 10, 2008
Comments(11)One of the most secretive companies in town has made its first public announcement in a long time.
Harlan Sprague Dawley, which is best known for supplying custom-designed laboratory rats for research, has
reorganized its various units under a...
MoreAfter assessors, what's next?
November 6, 2008
Comment(1)Indiana voters this week in effect fired most of the remaining township assessors after the Legislature merged
the vast majority of their work into county-level assessor offices earlier this year.
But many of the recommendations from the report on...
MoreObama, Daniels and Indiana
November 5, 2008
Comments(23)Change agents Barack Obama and Mitch Daniels won over Hoosiers yesterday, but from different ends of the
political spectrum.
Barack Obama took the state after a campaign in which he promised to increase regulations on business, raise
taxes on...
MoreThere's gotta be a better way
November 4, 2008
Comments(11)We live in the country that invented the light bulb, put a man on the moon and cracked the human genome,
but weâ??re still standing in line to vote.
Election Day is evolving into Election Month as more people make decisions...
MoreNuclear war, assessors and voters
November 3, 2008
Comments(3)Following a nuclear holocaust, itâ??s been said, only cockroaches and township assessors will be left.
Now, assessors might finally meet their match in something more powerful than atomic weapons â?? voters.
The Legislature wiped out a warren of them this year when...
MoreHeadhunter: Market not so bad
October 31, 2008
Comments(6)A corporate recruiter says employers in Indianapolis arenâ??t acting like their counterparts elsewhere in the
country, if headlines are to be believed.
The employment market here has stayed fairly resilient, says Steve Mattei, a partner in Pinnacle Partners
Inc.
Pinnacle specializes in...
MoreBringing on the generic drugs
October 30, 2008
Comments(2)Times are tough enough that more people are beginning to switch to generic drugs to save money. Insurers
like Indianapolis-based WellPoint are playing a role, too, by pushing policy holders toward generics.
People also are splitting pills...
MoreConcerns of a state health official
October 29, 2008
Comments(0)One of the people responsible for ensuring we stay healthy is Dr. Judy Monroe, who directs the Indiana Department
of Health.
So, what keeps someone with a job like hers up at night?
A nightmare scenario is a new virus that quickly...
MoreUnited Way CEO: merge nonprofits
October 23, 2008
Comment(1)As the economy slows and money gets scarce, banks arenâ??t the only organizations that should consider merging.
Thatâ??s how United Way of Central Indiana CEO Ellen Annala sees the landscape.
The Indianapolis area has a whopping 16,000 not-for-profits, she says, one for...
MoreIs your job secure?
October 22, 2008
Comments(3)Waves of layoffs are going to hit the country as banks tighten lending and companies cut costs, BusinessWeek
predicted in an article this week.
Unlike the dot-com and housing busts of recent years, this time just about every industry...
MoreThe future of Chrysler
October 22, 2008
Comments(3)The latest unnamed source to discuss the future of Chrysler raises the possibility of the company being sold
off in pieces.
This, after it became public that General Motors is interested in Chrysler to snag desperately needed cash.
Nissan...
MoreRich, poor growing apart
October 21, 2008
Comments(11)A new report says the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider, and that the gap is biggest
in the United States.
The problem, of course, isnâ??t new. Broadly speaking, the greater oneâ??s education and skills,...
MoreA historian previews the election
October 8, 2008
Comments(13)Jerry Handfield hasnâ??t lived in Indiana since 2001, when he moved to Washington to take a similar job
overseeing
that stateâ??s archives.
But Handfield still keeps tabs on Indiana. So much so that he checks the Weather Channel when tornadoes
rip...
MoreBrown County death trap
October 7, 2008
Comments(9)Just about everyone whoâ??s taken advantage of a nice day to trek to Brown County on State Road 135 has
seen a lot of motorcycles.
The winding road to the tourism hot spot may indeed be picturesque. But itâ??s also dangerous.
The...
MoreRace and the Obama vote
October 7, 2008
Comments(11)Yet another poll shows the contest between John McCain and Barack Obama as too close to call in Indiana.
The WISH-TV Channel 13 survey has each with 46 percent of likely voters.
With margins like this, the election could...
MoreReasons not to retire
October 1, 2008
Comments(7)Plenty of people plan to work until at least age 67, when eligibility for full Social Security benefits
kicks in, a new study shows. And itâ??s not just for the money.
Many say remaining in the workplace will help them...
MoreCheering up the real estate crowd
September 30, 2008
Comment(1)Imagine being asked to speak to a crowd hit by the biggest downturn in its industry in decades, and motivate
them to get back out there and keep selling. Or try to sell.
Thatâ??s what Dan Lappin faces when he speaks...
MoreBloodbath on Wall Street
September 29, 2008
Comments(4)Thereâ??s no time like an election to make politicians nervous about taking a stand on a controversial issue,
and this afternoonâ??s House vote on the $700 billion bailout plan is no exception.
Many Republicans and some Democrats, leery about facing voters...
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Many serial killer types and psychopaths work as lowly bureaucrats, just waiting to impose their wrath on a powerless person, child, or pet. Don't forget, the BTK killer was a dog catcher.
If a television station wants to improve viewership, get rid of the local blackout. I was born by the brickyard, and have attended 15 or more races. I have children now, I won't attend unless circumstances are perfect. As those with growing families know, they never are. I'm always impressed that upwards of 250,000 people attend the 500. However, as a growing, or, more apt, sprawling city, Indianapolis and its immediate suburbs count almost 2.2 million. Show the race live, let the venue get a kick-back on revenues, and open-wheel racing might have a fighting chance to be relevant again. Just in time for those tax-payer lights to make sense.
John Moore, I too have had the same issue recently. A property next to my house was on the Land Bank and I was interested in purchasing. When I tried to contact Reggie, I got back emails that had nothing to do with what I asked about. Actually my latest response from him was on this past Friday. I had asked about how to buy the property and if it was still available. His response to me was to contact the mayor's office to get the schedule of his appearances. (???) Hopefully the city is able to do something to fix what this guy has done, it would be nice if they would take the properties back and sell them properly so land owners like me and you mother would have a fair chance.
I too work in the industry, with over 25 years of experience and your political spin has probably nothing to do with any rebranding. "Let's dress it up" would have nothing to do with the government "telling us how and what to eat." Give it a political rest. And being a producer for a radio show doesn't mean you've been involved in advertising and branding for 30 years.
Ms. Morris did not understand the ways of the business world, otherwise, like the IMS, she could have petitioned the State Legislature for a handout of State Funds for her charity work. Ms. Morris should consider becoming a state lobbyist for Lemonade Stand Operators.