February 13, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumHouse Democrats now have their opportunity to tinker with legislation sent to them by the Senate, and they will look for
every opportunity to use these miscellaneous bills to preserve and create jobs. Similarly, Senate Republicans will analyze
each piece of legislation that crossed the Statehouse Rotunda from the House to determine whether it is a “job-killer.”
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February 6, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumPerhaps it was serendipity that the midpoint of the 2009 legislative session fell just ahead of the Indianapolis Colts’
Super Bowl appearance.
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January 30, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumHouse Bill 1065 would bar business owners
from prohibiting an employee from keeping a legally owned firearm in his or her locked vehicle at work.
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January 23, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumThe State of the State address delivered by Gov. Mitch Daniels Jan. 19 contained no surprises at all, except, perhaps in
his optimism.
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January 16, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumAt a torrid pace, major pieces of legislation are flying
through the Indiana General Assembly, leaving lawmakers with an envious decision: Adjourn early and make Hoosier voters happy,
or stick around and devote attention to other major issues that deserve close scrutiny, but receive short shrift in sessions
bogged down by battles over high-profile partisan matters.
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January 9, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumWhat changed over the last year to make House Democrats so eager to allow Hoosier voters to amend the property-tax caps
into the Indiana Constitution? The calendar.
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January 2, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumThe December hearings by Indiana General Assembly committees focused on issues that legislative leaders designated as
key session priorities, but the committee work was largely unremarkable, with predictable testimony derived from the usual
suspects.
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July 27, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumIndiana has made billions on gambling in nearly two decades, funding key programs, cutting excise and property taxes, and
avoiding tax hikes. The state has seen more than $2 billion in investment without any government incentives,
and more dollars committed in our history than by any industry outside of steel, power and autos.
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July 6, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumAs both House Speaker Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, and House Republican Leader Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, see it, this is definitely
a "Republican-flavored" budget. Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels laid the framework, and legislators from both sides
of the aisle largely abided by his bottom lines of spending, state agency cuts and surplus.
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June 15, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumSpecial session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
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June 8, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumLawmakers return to Indianapolis June 11 tanned, rested and presumably ready to agree upon a budget that, via gubernatorial
assent or a veto override vote, will guide Indiana through fiscal 2010-2011.
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May 11, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumAssigning responsibility for what stuck us with a special session is a political post-session must, but playing the blame
game usually isn't a productive exercise.
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May 4, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumYou wouldn't have expected it going into the final week of the Indiana General Assembly, but we're headed for a special legislative
session.
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April 27, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumSometimes the news is just so good you can't believe it, and that is just what happened with the state revenue forecast this
month.
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April 20, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumThe two principal matters that all agree must be resolved are the biennial budget and a plan to return the Unemployment Insurance
Trust Fund to solvency.
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April 6, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumThe Legislature has been behaving as expected lately: little public sound and fury, but action beginning to stir behind the
scenes.
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March 30, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumMost of the critical work of this state legislative session will occur after April 20, because only then will the General
Assembly have a revenue projection for the next biennium.
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March 23, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumIn the past, lawmakers ignored the need to fix financing for the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, and now they must come
up with solutions that will be difficult for both Democrats and Republicans to accept.
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March 16, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumBrace yourself, because things in this legislative session are destined to get messy: the politics, the process, the personalities,
the context, and the issues and their substance, all at once.
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March 9, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumThe key legislative item at this point remains House Bill 1001, the budget bill.
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March 2, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumThe Indiana state budget will continue to be a work in progress for many more weeks.
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February 23, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumPositive action, action for the sake of action, and inaction were all on tap in the General Assembly in recent days as lawmakers
prepared to wrap up the first half of the session.
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February 16, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumAfter a surprisingly slow month of January, the pace of legislative action picked up considerably during the first two weeks
of February.
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February 2, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumJobs themselves may become "Job One" for our elected officials.
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So, am I now eating at Patachou or a Shake Shack?
Does the IBJ have any fact to backup their assertion that Steak n Shake is changing their branding? Or are trying to compete with the Star on how many stories they can get incorrect??
The NCAA has the authority to sanction an entire school if a single player is caught receiving unauthorized gifts. In the case of Penn State an assistant coach was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of numerous felonies on campus, and members of the administration have been charged with covering it up. To suggest that the NCAA had no reason to get involved is laughable.
This image is of a trade show booth, not a retail store. I'm sure no one in their branding brain trust would really make their retail stores look like a second-label jeans brand from JCPenney. I would bet it's done at way so attendees know the ownership of the updated concept. (I have to say, tho, glad they appear to be losing affinity to the 50's drive-in idiom they were toying with post-Young & Laramore...)
I absolutely love the new sign. I've hated Steak N Shake for years now, but this new sign will make me eat there frequently!