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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Recent Blog Posts
Mass transit potential
April 27, 2009
Comments(13)For an interesting take on how mass transit could help revitalize Indianapolis, see IBJ reporter Chris Oâ??Malleyâ??s
story this week on the topic. Ball State grad students dreamed up several concepts for plunking new rail
stations along existing...
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...
MoreFearful business buyers
April 22, 2009
Comments(3)You might think people would be hankering to buy businesses, what with the frail economy tripping trap doors
beneath more and more jobs.
Not so, says the managing partner of the stateâ??s largest business brokerage.
Ed Mysogland says the Web site for...
MoreThe new education chief
April 22, 2009
Comments(5)Tony Bennett has been state superintendent of public instruction for just three months, but heâ??s making
plenty
of waves.
Bennett, who replaced longtime chief Suellen Reed after she decided not to run for re-election, has not abandoned
his campaign...
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...
MoreWellPoint Holliday Park?
April 20, 2009
Comments(9)Indianapolis was one of the first cities to sell naming rights for sports venues when RCA in 1994 was allowed
to pay $10 million to puts its name on the Hoosier Dome.
The dome has been demolished and the Colts have...
MoreIndiana’s next governor
April 17, 2009
Comments(13)The 2012 governor’s race is a long way off, but it isn’t too early to start asking about the kind of
governor Hoosiers will be looking for. More than one politico is certainly discussing the question.
By then, the state will...
MoreInternet marketing software city?
April 16, 2009
Comments(18)Indianapolis is known for hosting big races and other sports events, but the leader of an obscure niche
called Internet marketing software?
Chris Baggott, who runs one of the companies developing the software, Compendium Blogware, says Indianapolis
actually has emerged as...
MoreAngel investors taxed too much?
April 14, 2009
Comments(6)Mike Alley made lots of money running Fifth Third Bank’s central Indiana operations until he quit in 2002
to run his own investment firm, and he’s still making it pumping resources into entrepreneurial companies.
That perspective — of shifting from a...
MoreBankruptcies booming again
April 14, 2009
Comments(0)Bad times have Hoosiers filing lots more personal bankruptcies, right in synch with a national trend.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana, which includes Indianapolis, logged 2,936 bankruptcies
last month. That was a heady increase from...
MorePlaying conservative with refunds
April 13, 2009
Comments(5)Americans are in a mood to pay down their debt, a survey shows. Most who expect to receive tax refunds
plan to use the money to pay off bills, and the trend is particularly strong among those making...
MoreDetroit 3 fallout
April 8, 2009
Comments(5)For an eye-opener into the plight of Michigan, look no further than the number of people involved in the
auto industry. Things have gotten so bad that a think tank there now spends much of its time trying to
figure...
MoreItching to leave your job
April 7, 2009
Comments(12)Katy, bar the gate. Lots of workers are itching to jump to new jobs as soon as the economy shows a glimmer
of strength, says Chris Woolard, a senior consultant at Walker Information.
Woolard has a window on worker attitudes through...
MorePricey meth cleanups
April 6, 2009
Comment(1)Cleaning up a methamphetamine lab has become so expensive under Indiana law that in some cases it’s cheaper
to tear down the house or tow the trailer home from where its located to a dump.
Apartment owners also are...
MoreAnother ‘Merchants’ bank born
April 3, 2009
Comments(5)Banks aren’t known for creative names. Three in Indiana—in Mooresville, Fairmount and Munster—include “Citizens”
in their names. Three others have “Peoples.” Eight have “Community.” And don’t ask about “First.”
Now there’s another blurring of bank brands. Greensfork Township State Bank, a...
MoreMarsh Supermarkets directors
April 1, 2009
Comments(14)Marsh Supermarkets is making some awfully pointed claims in its lawsuit against the company’s former CEO,
Don Marsh.
As IBJ reporter Cory Schouten first reported, Don Marsh is accused of taking expensive trips around the world,
charging the company...
MoreIndiana not so corrupt?
March 31, 2009
Comments(9)In terms of political corruption, Indiana looks downright pristine compared to many other states, a recent
Chicago Tribune story says.
Louisiana takes the cake with a per-capita corruption rate twice that of the rate in Illinois. Our neighbor
to...
MoreWagoner, GM and CEOs
March 30, 2009
Comments(6)President Obama has pushed aside General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to hasten a turnaround of the once-proud
carmaker, a decision that would have been unthinkable had GM continued making cars consumers wanted to buy.
General Motors has long been criticized...
MoreLouisville’s guerrilla marketing
March 27, 2009
Comments(10)Louisville is probably getting a lot more mileage out of Indianapolis’ turning down its plan to flash promotional
images on buildings than it would have had the media never latched onto the story.
That how Ron Gifford sees it...
MoreIndiana’s place in a global currency
March 25, 2009
Comments(9)China has renewed a call for the world to create a global currency.
If such a currency were to emerge, it would be a shot in the arm to Indiana’s manufacturing base, says
Purdue University economist Kanda Naknoi.
China’s central...
MoreNotre Dame’s decision on Obama
March 24, 2009
Comments(33)Eleven years have passed since University of Notre Dame students embarrassed the university by complaining
that alum and then-Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan was too small of a fish to speak at their commencement.
Now, the university might be on...
MoreBasketball pools as illegal sport
March 23, 2009
Comments(4)The NCAA basketball tournament is upon us, and with it, myriad pools.
In that light, the Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program, a state-funded program to prevent and treat
addictions, issued a release today noting that sports betting has increased in the...
MoreBuick better than Lexus?
March 19, 2009
Comments(15)Some years ago, people began dropping the phrase “the Cadillac of the [fill in the blank]” to describe the
very best, and when they did, they sometimes substituted Lexus for Cadillac.
So, who would have predicted Buick becoming the More
ChaCha’s future
March 18, 2009
Comments(7)Popular search engine company ChaCha Search said yesterday that it had raised another round of funding —
and laid off 25 workers.
So, the economy is taking a toll on ChaCha revenue even while investors continue to believe the...
MoreHard lessons learned
March 17, 2009
Comment(1)Financial planning offices can be good places to pick up on societal trends, and Juli Erhart-Graves thinks
she’s onto one.
People of her generation—Erhart-Graves is 39—are experiencing a sobering reality check about investing and the
economy.
Erhart-Graves, a partner with longtime financial...
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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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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.