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HETRICK: Learning to lead with Sister Souljah moments
February 6, 2010
Bruce HetrickEvery once in a while, someone in power shows some chutzpah and surprises us.
MoreHETRICK: Awed by America's generous help for Haiti
January 23, 2010
Bruce HetrickI much prefer a nation that can be more the world's benefactor and less the world's cop.
MoreHETRICK: Hey kids! Come and get your pound of flesh
January 9, 2010
Bruce HetrickIn light of the selfishness and stupidity exacted upon children by adults, you're hereby invited to exact revenge.
MoreHETRICK: As a new decade dawns, could we start again?
December 26, 2009
Bruce HetrickTen years ago this week, a new century dawned. A lot has changed since.
MoreHETRICK: Let's have a little holiday faith ... in one another
December 12, 2009
Bruce HetrickOne might hope that we could accept a simple seasonal greeting for its thoughtful intent.
MoreHETRICK: Let's make Thanksgiving a year-round concept
November 21, 2009
Bruce HetrickFew of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
MoreHETRICK: Does your private club need a license to kill?
November 7, 2009
Bruce HetrickIs it freedom-enhancing to defend a veteran's "right" to commit slow-motion suicide and homicide?
MoreHETRICK: My Washington day in the war for health reform
October 24, 2009
Bruce HetrickI awoke long before the alarm sounded Tuesday. It’s not every day one testifies before Congress, so I was eager and
anxious.
MoreHETRICK: Will healthy workplace hopes go up in smoke?
October 10, 2009
Bruce HetrickI can predict as well as any seer what witnesses will say as the City-County Council considers a workplace smoking ban.
MoreHETRICK: No, Mabel, government is not a four-letter word
September 26, 2009
Bruce HetrickIt's easy to express populist outrage against Washington. But is the rage misplaced?
MoreHETRICK: To teach your children well, put away the parachutes
September 12, 2009
Bruce HetrickAsking our kids to take responsibility sometimes has unexpected consequences.
MoreHETRICK: Will we distinguish the faux news from the real?
August 24, 2009
Bruce HetrickThere was a time, of course, when journalists had the time, space, resources and respect to sort things out for us.
MoreHETRICK: A health insurance beneficiary pleads for reform
August 10, 2009
Bruce HetrickAs a hearing-impaired, migraine-suffering, diabetic cancer survivor who's also the father of a cancer survivor and the widower
of a cancer victim, I've experienced more than my fair share of American health care.
MoreHETRICK: Visiting Alaska, and sticking final pin in the map
July 27, 2009
Bruce HetrickIn my parent's basement hangs a map of the United States stuck with multicolored push pins showing where they've lived
and visited. Until a few weeks ago, there were pins in every state but one.
MoreHETRICK: It's hip to be simple, so let's take advantage
July 13, 2009
Bruce HetrickA gentleman from Fort Wayne died last month. The cancer caught up to him just a few days before his 80th birthday. Like many
of us native Hoosiers, this fellow was born of working folks. His dad was a traveling hardware salesman,
his mom a homemaker.
MoreHETRICK: Keep the civil in our disobedience and our discourse
June 8, 2009
Bruce HetrickIf you believe passionately in some cause, if you're certain grave injustice has occurred or will continue, if you know your
way is correct and all others are wrong, how far will you go to make your point? What will you sacrifice to get attention?
MoreBirth, death and living in between
May 25, 2009
Bruce HetrickThe problem is, we don't get to choose our exits—the natural ones, at least—and we don't get to choose the timing.
Whole-hog health scare: A deadly double standard
May 11, 2009
Bruce HetrickBecause secondhand smoke is a longer-term health threat—rather than something quick like the flu or food poisoning—too
much of society, including the media, overlooks its danger with nary a second glance.
MoreRedefining community in virtual and political reality
April 27, 2009
Bruce HetrickLast week, I made a presentation about social media to several hundred people at a Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheon. We
talked about Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, LinkedIn, blogging and more. I didn't answer the "how-to"
question. I answered the "whether-to" question. With some important cautions, my answer was "yes."
MoreHopeful news about the nukes aimed at your head
April 13, 2009
Bruce HetrickBecause President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev have now dared to raise that tired and trivial matter
of nuclear disarmament, you must focus on mundane matters of mass destruction.
MoreOur newest smoke-filled workplace: Sadly, it stinks
March 23, 2009
Bruce HetrickHoosiers workers—including those who work at casinos—deserve a healthy, smoke-free workplace.
MoreIn times of trouble, encountering a chance to let it be
March 9, 2009
Bruce HetrickI went to church Sunday night. It wasn't a religious experience â?? wasn't supposed to be, anyway.
MoreAll of us Belongers, building castles in the sand
February 23, 2009
Bruce HetrickOn vacation in the British West Indies, we see the decline from just a year ago at this same beautiful spotâ??fewer families
at play, fewer retirees strolling arm and arm, fewer young couples slathering one another with sunscreen.
MoreWorkplace smoking policies move backward
February 9, 2009
Bruce HetrickThe bill in question seems like a long shot. It would abdicate government's responsibility for protecting citizens' health
and safety, and place it in the hands of individual business owners.
MoreThumbing a ride on America's 'Revolutionary Road'
January 26, 2009
Bruce HetrickOn my bookshelf, there's an old copy of Richard Yates' "Revolutionary Road." The cover illustration shows a pristine
countryside
with puffy white clouds on an azure sky.
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In my opinion the estridge companies are crooks. They filed bankruptcy on their 'track housing' side of the business two weeks before they closed on one of my clients' homes. When my client first interviewed Estridge as a builder 6 months before, they specifically ASKED about the solvency of their business, knowing that some builders were struggling. Estridge truly misrepresented their financial situation at that time. I suppose I am more unhappy with the whole system than I am with the builder because what the heck==you can file bankruptcy on 'track homes' but still keep building and make money off of 'custom built' homes??? How ridiculous! They are all homes. How can a company be allowed to bilk thousands of dollars from their subcontractors but still be allowed to build houses?? they should have been made to pay back all their unpaid contractors before being allowed to profit from building any more houses! This alone makes them and the system crooks in my eyes. I would never build an estridge home and I would not recommend for my clients either. If they were truly 'bankrupt' how could they afford to keep building homes anyway??? The whole system needs fixed.
I live a couple blocks east of the Angie's campus and my house is assessed for ~$160,000. If I could get that amount, let alone $384,000 (a 140% bonus), I'd sell in a minute. Either Angie's stockholders just got fleeced, or Angie's is getting about a 58% discount on their property taxes, if these properties are actually worth what they paid Mr. Oesterle for them. Which do you think is the case?
Perhaps the IMA board is really to blame! They agreed to hire Charles. They can't seemingly find donors among themselves, or bring in new blood that will support the museums operating budget with an expanded museum and money to provide curators with something to do (ie buy art). The headlines of disarray at the museum and mass firings are hurting the reputation of the museum for some time to come. If people on the board had misgivings, perhaps they shpuld have more forcefully opposed efforts that they have seemingly been unable to fund, like expansion and the costs it has created!
See, I told u Indyman and Dipsicle....this 8 days is overkill. It's barely worth a weekend....great job Tony George! Your dream has been fulfilled....he fans want the I r l back. Thats how good it was.....and that sucked.
I have been in training for a short time now but right off I can see that safety and quality are the number one issues, my experience as of late has been a positive one, the employees along with Jeff the plant manager and the operation supervisor as well as the engineers are a highly motivated group of people, what an asset for the area to have and for company's in need of a quality metal products.