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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Government Blog Posts
Bloodbath 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...
MoreStability versus boom-and-bust
September 25, 2008
Comments(5)Itâ??s a rare person who enjoys the asset bubbles and boom-and-bust cycles that afflict the U.S. economy,
most
recently the subprime mortgage crisis and implosions on Wall Street.
But Purdue University economist David Hummels contends that the United States deals with...
MoreUnion tensions loom in Congress
September 22, 2008
Comments(3)If the Employee Free Choice Act sounds unfamiliar, you arenâ??t alone. The proposed legislation is getting
little
coverage this election cycle.
But the measure could emerge as a flashpoint in the next Congress as business and labor groups battle for
power.
Business...
MoreSigns and the First Amendment
September 17, 2008
Comments(8)The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the case of a Plainfield man who says a city zoning ordinance
tramples his First Amendment right to free speech.
Plainfield officials told the man, Nick Crews, to take down a...
MoreIs Bloomington best Hoosier city?
September 15, 2008
Comments(7)Bloomington keeps racking up the accolades.
Over the weekend, a Wall Street Journal article focused on the city as a vibrant, low-cost alternative to
Sun Belt locations for retirees. Congestion is low, there are two hospitals, and plenty of natural...
MoreBailing out Detroit carmakers
September 10, 2008
Comments(4)Executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are optimistic about their chances of getting inexpensive federal
loans to help tide them through the credit crunch and sales downturn.
The discussions, which have come to light in recent weeks, have the execs...
MoreGetting Hoosiers through college
September 9, 2008
Comments(5)The Indiana Commission on Higher Education rolled out an ambitious goal yesterday â?? to increase the number
of graduates from state-supported colleges and universities by a third within four years.
Indiana isnâ??t plagued by too few high school grads...
MoreWhat ails Jill?
September 5, 2008
Comments(13)If any governor were vulnerable to a strong challenge in a re-election campaign, it should have been Mitch
Daniels, who has made a lot of Hoosiers mad by pushing daylight saving time, leasing the Indiana Toll Road
and in general...
MoreLess zing in Daniels' second term?
September 2, 2008
Comments(2)Mitch Daniels ran for governor four years ago promising to shake things up, and it would be hard to argue
that he hasnâ??t followed through.
Daylight saving time passed. Cigarette taxes were raised to fund health insurance. Property taxes were reformed.
What...
MoreSAT scores stuck below average
August 26, 2008
Comments(3)This yearâ??s SAT scores are out, and there isnâ??t much to cheer about. Indiana saw math scores improve
slightly,
but reading and writing scores dropped a few points. All three remain below national averages.
Educators say the tests are...
MoreSusan Bayh as a political liability
August 19, 2008
Comments(10)Barack Obama is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now, and Evan Bayhâ??s name
is still thought to be on the short list.
The Indiana senator is viewed as a moderate who would counter Obamaâ??s liberal voting...
MoreAppraisers' role in the meltdown
August 18, 2008
Comments(7)Some of the people most familiar with the mortgage foreclosure explosion in the Indianapolis area in recent
years have privately pointed fingers at appraisers.
Appraisers too often were in cahoots with lenders to illegally inflate prices of houses, the insiders complained,...
MoreWhen to blow the whistle
August 6, 2008
Comments(0)Whistleblowers are learning the hard way that they wonâ??t necessarily get their jobs back by exposing problems.
The latest such case involved a former banker who saw his case rejected by an appeals court. The court
ruled that his...
MoreSchellinger looks back
July 24, 2008
Comments(3)The Democratic primary race between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and winner Barack Obama attracted
so much attention that the Indiana governorâ??s race got short shrift â?? and the governorâ??s race still
isnâ??t
getting the respect it deserves.
Thatâ??s how Jim Schellinger...
MoreDid airport decision split the baby?
July 18, 2008
Comments(3)As expected, the airport authority has opted to put Weir Cooksâ?? name on a major street leading to the
new
terminal as well as the terminal itself.
Would the airportâ??s brand equity have been eroded had the board renamed...
MoreIs Bloomington anti-business?
July 7, 2008
Comments(14)Bloomington has a reputation as one of the toughest places in the state to do business.
Its regulations are thickets, its bureaucrats nit-pickers, its public officials aloof. At least thatâ??s how
many businesspeople view the city.
The latest controversy pits...
MoreBase closings and health care
June 30, 2008
Comments(3)Weâ??ve reached the season when companies start lining up employee health care coverage for the following
year.
Like prior years, companies will complain about skyrocketing costs and workers will complain about getting
fewer benefits. Study after study suggests both parties will...
MoreExpert: 75 mph might be safe
June 24, 2008
Comments(8)A Purdue University civil engineering professor made news this week by rolling out a study showing the new
70 mph speed limit on rural interstates in Indiana caused virtually no increase in fatalities or injuries.
The study was prompted by the...
MoreFarm and suburban polluters
June 16, 2008
Comments(0)Drive through areas hit by the deluge of rain in the past few days and youâ??ll see mind-boggling soil
erosion.
At the base of myriad fields lie deltas of sediment washed downhill from elsewhere in their respective watersheds.
Not only was...
MoreDepending on a three-legged stool
June 9, 2008
Comment(1)Economic development experts have long contended that business investment and good jobs gravitate to places
where business, government and higher education are on the ball and get along together.
If one of the three legs doesnâ??t carry its weight, the other...
MoreRaise the cigarette tax again?
June 5, 2008
Comments(20)Health advocates beamed with a â??told-you-soâ?? response this week when state officials announced that cigarette
sales dropped dramatically after taxes were raised last July.
Sales fell nearly 18 percent, apparently a direct result of boosting the tax 44 cents to a...
MoreMaking companies say, 'I do'
June 4, 2008
Comments(0)Lots of Indiana towns will do almost anything to get a factory or warehouse. That often means skipping pointed
questions about corporate citizenship for fear of losing the project.
A Lebanon city council member isn't looking the other way, though.
Dick Robertson...
MoreReturn Weir Cook to airport title?
June 3, 2008
Comments(35)Weir Cook has been dead a long time, since 1943, but a military veterans group wants to bring his name
back to what is now Indianapolis International Airport.
The war heroâ??s name was on the airport from 1944, a...
MoreFarm bill stranglehold
May 28, 2008
Comments(2)It isn’t easy providing tomatoes to the nation. Consider the ongoing
struggle at Red Gold Inc. The state’s largest food processor, which is headquartered
north of Anderson in Orestes, was all but locked out of buying tomatoes from Indiana growers under...
MoreHubbard blasts Florida over oil
May 22, 2008
Comments(4)Al Hubbard, the Indianapolis businessman who stepped down last year as director of President Bushâ??s National
Economic Council, is quoted in a recent Barronâ??s column as hammering Floridians and others living along
U.S.
coasts for squeezing the tourniquet on additional...
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.