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The next 100 years

June 25, 2008
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Thereâ??s nothing like travel to change oneâ??s perspective on the world. Graham Toft, perhaps the stateâ??s most experienced economic development expert, has traveled a lot in the past couple of years, consulting to state governments worried about rebounding from their doldrums. The...
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The next Fortune 500 companies

April 23, 2008
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Conseco has dropped off the Fortune 500, leaving WellPoint, Lilly, Cummins and NiSource as the only Indiana companies remaining. Several Indiana firms are closing in on the elite list, though. One is Steel Dynamics, the Fort Wayne company that recycles scrap metal....

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Comparing Chris White, Hilbert

April 8, 2008
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Reaction to retail developer Chris Whiteâ??s downfall is sounding a lot like when Steve Hilbert was forced out of Conseco Inc. eight years ago. Hilbert made himself the talk of the town by taking tens of millions of dollars in salary...
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About that other airline

April 4, 2008
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As postmortems fly on ATAâ??s second, and final, nosedive into bankruptcy, another Indianapolis airline is doing a lot better and getting hardly any attention. Republic Airways Holdings Inc. isnâ??t a household name because it quietly flies regional routes on...
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Judge this elevator speech

April 1, 2008
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Results are in for Purdue Universityâ??s second annual Elevator Pitch Competition, and a transcript of the winning pitch for the graduate-level division is below. Bob Caswell spit this out in less than two minutes, less time than the ride to the...
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Angie's List takes on health care

March 24, 2008
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As of today, youâ??ll be able to scour Angieâ??s List for ratings on doctors, health insurance and other health services. The Indianapolis company made its name by rating plumbers and other home repair services. Will the same approach work with...
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Adding to the life science corridor

February 1, 2008
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For years, dreamers have envisioned a life sciences crescent stretching from West Lafayette down Interstate 65 to Indianapolis, then along State Road 37 to Bloomington. The thinking was, this corridor would take advantage of Indiana and Purdue universities and IUPUI as...
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Are these incentives a good deal?

January 31, 2008
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Gov. Mitch Daniels dished out $6.3 million in incentives as part of Defender Directâ??s expansion announcement yesterday. But was the carrot a good deal for us taxpayers? Defender Direct, which sells home security and satellite dish systems, plans to add 1,100...
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Count 'em: two IPOs

December 17, 2007
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Itâ??s been awhile since the Indianapolis area has had two initial public offerings in the works at the same time, but thatâ??s exactly what we have. And theyâ??re software firms to boot â?? businesses Indianapolis and other Midwestern cities have...
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'Creative class' debunked?

November 28, 2007
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The Wall Street Journal carried an interesting op-ed piece yesterday by a researcher who claimed cities are putting their eggs in the wrong basket by trying to attract young single professionals with a â??brew-latte-and-they-will-come-approach.â?? Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow at Chapman University,...
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  1. These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.

  2. The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)

  3. As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.

  4. The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.

  5. I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.

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