February 4, 2008
You IBJ readers are a wealthy lot. Our latest survey, taken in September of last year, shows that you had
a $170,700 median household income and the median value of your investments came to $679,700.
Three of four had corporate stocks...
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Bruce HetrickFebruary 4, 2008
This is normally the time when I ask you what you did last weekend, but I've got a pretty good idea what
you were up to on Sunday.
Still, there was Friday and Saturday to catch something on stage, in galleries...
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Cory SchoutenFebruary 4, 2008
The day after the New York Giants’ improbable Super Bowl XLII triumph, sports marketers are already lining
up to talk with the game’s MVP, Eli Manning. And there’s speculation that Manning’s sudden success will have
a profound effect on older...
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Cory SchoutenFebruary 1, 2008
The deal to sell O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont is dead, and racing insiders said the opportunity to
raise the local facility’s profile even higher might have died with it. Some within the racing community
felt the suitor, a Santa...
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Cory SchoutenFebruary 1, 2008
Banking on the regional draw of outdoor retail giant Cabela's, developers have been planning more than 100
acres of hotels, a water park, restaurants and other retail space for the southwest corner of...
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Bruce HetrickFebruary 1, 2008
Maybe you’ve already been introduced to the intense, funny, bloody work of Martin McDonagh.
He wrote the acclaimed play “The Pillowman,” which the Phoenix Theatre produced last year. And he wrote “The
Lieutenant of Inishmore,” opening at the Phoenix this month.
He...
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February 1, 2008
For years, dreamers have envisioned a life sciences crescent stretching from West Lafayette down Interstate
65 to Indianapolis, then along State Road 37 to Bloomington.
The thinking was, this corridor would take advantage of Indiana and Purdue universities and IUPUI as...
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Bruce HetrickFebruary 1, 2008
It had to happen eventually, I suppose.
The “Project Runway” creators are shopping another reality/competition show to the networks—this one looking
at the art world.
"There will be creative challenges, unexpected challenges, things that will test these artists outside of their
comfort...
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My city lost population. My neighborhood lost population. I hope the trend continues. Urban/suburban/rural trends point to more affluent city centers, more Balkanized (economically) suburbs and a rural America of 'Great Camps' - retreats for the wealthy.
Irvington is up and coming much like Fountain Square. We would love to have something like this in our neighborhood!
Why do we care who has submitted proposals if we can't review the proposals? It's publicly owned land, but the public has zero say in what gets chosen to be built there. Yep, that sounds about right.
Perhaps May 21 is "Evangelical Day" over at the IBJ?
I don't know what's more depressing: that this passes for a defensible elective in a publicly funded SCIENCE class, or that more than half of the posters here are defending this charlatan. Intelligent design is creationism. Creationism is religion. Yes, we have freedom of religion, which deserves to be protected. Now someone kindly show Professor Hedin his freedom by escorting him over to the Religion department at BSU. Carry on.