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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Work force Blog Posts
The future of anger management?
May 5, 2009
Comments(6)A prediction by a military historian in a recent issue of Foreign Policy has something for everyone, including
people interested in companies right here in Indiana.
Writing in a special section about the future, Martin van Creveld notes that...
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...
MoreIndy's best leaders
March 2, 2009
Comments(10)Conseco has seen a string of leaders since the company began to stumble and co-founder Steve Hilbert stepped
down nearly nine years ago. The insurer still doesnâ??t have its footing, saying today its auditors arenâ??t
convinced it can More
Coming to work sick
February 10, 2009
Comments(10)Now that smokers are mostly banished to the outdoors, thereâ??s a new work place pariah â?? those who show
up
coughing, sneezing and otherwise obviously sick.
In the not-so-recent past, failing to make it to work while under the weather could be...
MoreWellPoint brass and rank-and-file
January 16, 2009
Comments(8)WellPoint unwittingly made an interesting point this morning when it announced it expects to save $24 million
by laying off 600 workers.
Those 600 workers in affect are being valued at about half the $47.5 million in total compensation...
MoreDungy, Bayh and Obama
January 14, 2009
Comments(8)Evan Bayh is pitching Tony Dungy to Barack Obama as a czar to promote â??responsible fatherhoodâ?? and Obama
likes the idea, Bayh says.
Dungy, who is retiring as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has made fatherhood a centerpiece...
MoreUtility of WARN notices
December 11, 2008
Comments(2)In times like these, what do you think of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, commonly
called the WARN Act or WARN notices?
The federal law was passed in 1988 to give employees 60 daysâ?? notice of an impending layoff,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
MoreFollowing the heart to a 'real job'
September 17, 2008
Comments(2)Just what is a 'real job?'
Most college students define the term in light of Adam Smithâ??s capitalism â?? high pay, having an office
and
so on, says Purdue University communications professor Robin Patric Clair.
Clair, who recently wrote a book called...
MoreScandal singes MBA entry exam
September 11, 2008
Comments(2)Not everyone who takes the Graduate Management Admission Test, which is required to get into business graduate
programs, is honest.
The organization that publishes the test, the Graduate Management Admission Council, disclosed yesterday that
it has tossed scores of 84...
MoreIndy a diamond in the rough
September 8, 2008
Comments(4)Just about every young, college-educated Midwesterner has given up hope and moved to the South or West, right?
A story that appeared in IBJ over the weekend suggests otherwise.
The Indianapolis area leads nearly all other large Midwestern cities...
MoreIs college for everyone?
August 15, 2008
Comments(8)Parents and teachers for more than a generation have steered students toward college and white-collar work,
and few states need the graduates more than Indiana, which has one of the lowest levels of college attainment
in the country.
Lost in the...
MoreBack to school in hard times
August 12, 2008
Comment(1)Colleges and universities tend to see enrollment boom when the economy goes south, and this down cycle appears
to be little different.
Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Indianapolis all have announced in recent
weeks that enrollments...
MoreDo you demand a 401(k)?
August 11, 2008
Comments(2)Corporations are boosting 401(k) plans even as they abandon traditional pension plans.
Workers are getting automatic enrollment, more investment options and greater contributions from employers.
Employees want 401(k)s, and theyâ??re good for business, companies say. In fact, companies without 401(k)s...
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...
MoreBall State tosses IU a grenade
August 4, 2008
Comments(6)Three Ball State University economists have gone public in recent weeks with their distaste for corporate
social responsibility as it’s practiced these days. Philip Coelho and
James McClure argued in a letter to the editor in The Herald-Times of Bloomington that...
MoreIUPUI apologizes to janitor
July 14, 2008
Comments(5)How did we get to the point where someone can be accused of racial harassment for reading a scholarly book
about the Ku Klux Klan â?? a book in which the good guys, Notre Dame students, whip the bad guys,...
MoreMatch your wits with an Indian child
July 8, 2008
Comments(0)Bob Compton has taken a few arrows in the back since he began screening the film he funded, â??2 Million
Minutes,â?? last fall.
Compton, who was a venture capitalist at CID Equity Partners before striking out on his own to bankroll...
MoreImpressions of settling lawsuits
July 1, 2008
Comments(2)Eli Lilly and Co. settled its racial discrimination lawsuit yesterday for $64,000, ending a claim by an employee
who alleged the company fired her because she was disfigured through exposure to a blood pathogen.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
MoreGood news on a Friday
May 9, 2008
Comments(0)Manufacturing seems to churn out about as many lay-off headlines as cars these days, but plenty of good
news about the sector is buried in a recent Ball State University study.
Indiana manufacturing workers are accomplishing far more work than peers...
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.