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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Outside Indianapolis Blog Posts
(Un)believable App Store reviews
September 8, 2009
Comments(2)Apple's problems with anonymous comments at its App Store revives an old debate.
MoreChrysler sticks it to Kokomo
August 21, 2009
Comments(0)Officials in Kokomo and Howard County are in a tough spot. The “new” Chrysler created after its bankruptcy sale to Fiat contends it‘s no longer on the hook for $12.9 million it owes various local taxing bodies this year and $12.3 million it will owe next year.
Bank-branch boom skirts inner city
August 17, 2009
Comments(11)Itâ??s no secret banks are tossing up branches left and right. IBJ reported last month that banks consider
branches as billboards to lure new customers, even while bank transactions move online.
A new Associated Press analysis shows...
MoreHoosier state as a laboratory
July 9, 2009
Comment(1)You know California is in bad shape when The Economist compares it with Texas and wonders which is best.
An opinion piece in its upcoming issue verges on placing them on a virtually even plane.
California still has the best...
MoreAlleys of devastation
July 2, 2009
Comment(1)Plenty of stories have been published and aired in recent days about migration...
MoreSwine flu overblown?
May 12, 2009
Comments(0)Swine flu dominated the news a couple of weeks ago as the virus spread out of Mexico and ultimately to
more than 30 countries. Indiana now has 22 cases.
However, once it became apparent the flu wouldnâ??t turn into a full-blown...
MoreLessons from a small bank
May 4, 2009
Comments(2)Sometimes one extreme sheds light on another extreme, and in a day when the nationâ??s financial system is
under the microscope for making all manner of rotten loans, the experience of tiny Kentland Federal Savings
& Loan Association might be...
MoreTax commuters for marketing?
February 24, 2009
Comments(14)How do you feel about taxing commuters to supplement promotion of the cityâ??s convention industry? The idea
was floated in an article by IBJ reporter Anthony Schoettle about the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors
Association asking for more money...
MoreIdeal places for public companies
February 13, 2009
Comments(8)Just as an Indiana company goes through the nationâ??s first initial public offering in months, its executives
ratchet up their plans to move the headquarters out of state.
Mead Johnson, the Evansville baby formula maker, staged a successful IPO...
MoreThe future for diesel cars
January 19, 2009
Comments(3)A number of car companies have introduced, or plan to introduce, clean-diesel engines to cater to buyers
wanting better fuel efficiency.
Diesels from Volkswagen and other manufacturers boost mileage by about a third, but much of that advantage
in the past...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MoreAnderson gets a 50-foot rabbit
August 7, 2008
Comments(6)Nestle has gotten the green light from the city of Anderson to build a 50-foot-tall rabbit near the companyâ??s
new Nesquik plant along I-69.
The steel and fiberglass rabbit will look like the smiling cartoon logo thatâ??s been on...
MorePaddlefish caviar goes toxic
July 11, 2008
Comment(1)Commercial fishing outfits are taking tons of caviar from paddlefish in the Ohio River because severe restrictions
on fishing for Russian sturgeon in the Caspian Sea have depleted the supply of the eggs.
But thereâ??s a problem: Indiana along with...
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...
MoreMichigan's pain, Indiana's gain
July 2, 2008
Comments(2)Detroit keeps turning out bad news, what with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler losing market share and Volkswagenâ??s
announcement last fall that it would abandon the city and move its U.S. headquarters to Virginia.
Now Volkswagen is days away from unveiling...
MoreThe next Fortune 500 companies
April 23, 2008
Comments(3)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....
Chelsea Clinton's response
March 26, 2008
Comments(16)Chelsea Clinton has been widely praised for her response to a question at Butler University yesterday about
how Monica Lewinsky might have affected her motherâ??s candidacy for president.
â??I donâ??t think that is any of your business,â?? Chelsea Clinton shot back.
The...
MoreWhat ails Brown County?
March 25, 2008
Comments(4)What Hoosier hasnâ??t been to Brown County for the fall colors, to shop in Nashville or tromp on the trails
at Brown County State Park?
Yet, as IBJ correspondent Jonathan Hiskes reported in this weekendâ??s edition, prosperity is coming harder
and...
MoreHysteria or playing it safe?
March 17, 2008
Comments(2)Lots of people laughed last week at the Fort Wayne law firm that called police about a suspicious gift
bag it received. The suspicious package had come from a man who was being sued by a client of the...
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Ameriana Bank took over Westfield Farmers Market for 2013 and it is held in their parking lot, corner of 32 and Carey road, 5 to 8. I am selling soap and candles there. great market!
B&T certainly has enough of our taxpayer dollars to do this thanks to Mayor Ballard. Given the firm's exceedingly poor reputation in the legal community, the basement would seem a better option.
Should read MAY hire 20 people.
Not a good location for a 300,000 home. 10th Street fumes, buses, noise. Max for this location 150,000.
The state constitution also does not say that the majority has a right to quorum, nor that the minority is required to allow them quorum. In fact, denial of quorum has been a parliamentary maneuver since the establishment of the first parliaments in the early 1600s. The right to deny quorum (and the requirement fore quorum) are to prevent exactly what happened in Indiana: A tyrannical majority pushing through odious, objectionable legislation. Denial of quorum is totally legitimate, and lest we forget, a tactic the GOP has employed many, many times to ensure their issues weren't given short shrift. By allowing the majority to impose "fines" on the minority for exercising the authority the constitution grants them (to deny quorum,) they are violating the constitution.