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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Professional services Blog Posts
Did Lilly get preferential treatment on a disputable billboard ad?
November 4, 2010
Comments(6)Billboard companies spiked the cancer ad. But Citizens Gas or WellPoint might have gotten a different result.
MoreNFIB chief fears sales tax talk
September 3, 2010
Comments(5)As legislators scout for revenue, Quandt says small businesses could be hit from two directions.
MoreNotaries headed toward endangered list
July 30, 2010
Comments(6)The number of notary publics, a group that proudly dates its services back a couple of thousand years or more, is in free
fall.
MoreAn ode to utility workers
July 13, 2010
Comment(1)They're some of the most stable people in the state, a new study shows.
MoreSue Shields' faves for state supreme court
July 8, 2010
Comments(3)Legendary former judge would prefer that three women—and a man—go to Daniels for a final choice.
MoreNipping estate feuds in the bud
June 7, 2010
Comment(1)A lawyer says too many parents withhold information about estate from heirs and unwittingly set up the heirs for a battle.
MoreDownstream problems with professionals
June 2, 2010
Comments(7)Should engineers be required to spend time in repair shops, and architects with the lunch bucket crowd?
MoreSome law firms are mouthfuls
May 6, 2010
Comments(7)Indianapolis still has some doozies in an era when the savviest firms are trimming to the optimal two names.
MoreIndy turns architectural corner
February 8, 2010
Comment(1)A Ball State architect thinks Indianapolis residents will like what they see in the new J.W. Marriott hotel downtown and beat
drums for more interesting buildings.
MoreUnderrated entrepreneurs
February 5, 2010
Comments(9)The Indianapolis area is home to myriad unsung entrepreneurs who run interesting companies, make money and create good jobs.
Here are some of them.
MoreThoughts on the Tebow ad
February 1, 2010
Comments(13)From the perspective of return on investment, the Super Bowl ad might be considered a failure.
MoreReal estate commissions
December 30, 2009
Comment(1)Realtor incomes went down this year despite a miniscule increase in commission rates.
MoreBye-bye, billable hour?
May 15, 2009
Comments(5)A staple of professional services, the billable hour, is beginning to erode. Law firms increasingly are being
asked to shoot a set price for a specific service, and now the movement is spreading to advertising, as
Coca-Cola announced...
MoreMeasuring your performance
April 24, 2009
Comments(3)From the beginning of time, engineering and the hard sciences have been held to account by laws of nature
because results of faulty reasoning are obvious. Heavy airplanes wonâ??t leave the ground, patients given the
wrong drug die.
In recent decades...
MorePreparing for the turnaround
April 21, 2009
Comments(0)In his conversations with business owners and CEOs, Carmel consultant Bud Roth sees attitudes about the recession
changing, but not changing enough.
Many leaders have figured out whether or not their organizations will survive, says Roth, who was vice president
of...
MoreKatz Sapper's embarrassment
December 17, 2008
Comments(9)Yesterdayâ??s disclosure by KSM Capital Advisors that its clients might be out $15 million from the alleged
Madoff scandal probably wonâ??t be the last local fallout. At minimum, it has been a stressful and embarrassing
time for a...
MoreLegal news keeps coming
December 2, 2008
Comments(0)Law firm mergers keep making news. IBJ Scott Olson reported this morning that Ice Miller is about to join
with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald in Louisville. In May, Sommer Barnard was absorbed by Taft Stettinius
&...
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...
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...
MoreIs Hall Render marooned at No. 2?
June 18, 2008
Comment(1)If a high rank brings bragging rights and marketing juice, then the Indianapolis law firm of Hall Render
Killian Heath & Lyman (permission granted to catch your breath) has plenty of ammo.
But it never quite gets the most ammo.
Hall Render...
MoreTaxing lawyers, docs, Realtors
January 7, 2008
Comments(5)Your lawyer probably isnâ??t complaining. Neither would your doctor, Realtor or accountant.
In all the talk about reforming property taxes, hardly a word has been said about shifting some of the
property tax burden to services.
That means some of the most...
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.