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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 quaint,obsessed musings by the stalkers are certainly entertaining, but I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, all the yelping below has to do with Zak Brown.
It's evident that Moffett was pushing the right buttons and corporate America is now trying to squash him. He just wanted to withdraw the free pilot services provided to the company by the pilots to try and put some pressure on a company that has not been interested in negotiating a contract in over 5 years. The company does not provide a contract because not having one has saved them a bundle of money. Shame on any Republic pilots not standing behind their union leader just because things are getting tough, can you not see such strategic moves by the company as putting the last union president in a corporate position and into THEIR pocket. Do you really believe the last union president is so appalled at the attempts by Moffett, do you not remember his oppositions to the company? We stood behind him. It has been proven over and over again for thousands of years without fail, a man cannot serve two masters. Anyone that believes people vote contrary to their paycheck and livelihood deserve to be taken advantage of, the recent statements by the former union president are laughable as he denounces the current union president from his new corporate position. Have you ever seen a drafted sports player score points for his previous team, it cannot be done, he is not on the pilots side anymore, he gets his money a different way now than you and I do, and he should not be allowed to remain on the seniority list. A drafted player brings strength, credibility, tactical knowledge, and a strategic advantage to his NEW team, he would not be drafted or paid were it otherwise. We are all forced to choose only one side to play for and support, not doing so has many references in life such as insider trading and shaving points, all illegal for good reason. This basic fact is why corporate moguls, scientist, and engineers all sign non-discloser agreements and non-compete clauses, as protection in case they are lured into switching sides as our former union president has done. No NFL coach ever drafted a player so that both teams could benefit and better understand each other, they are recruited to win the game against that former team, period. Likewise the company does not recruit the former union president by accident or mutual understanding, its strategy. Don't confuse playing the game with good sportsman-like conduct in support of common business and prosperity goals, with the requirement to only play for one side. Good men we all love and favor fall subject to this manipulation, often without their knowledge, and it is not a betrayal of their friendship to oppose them when they switch sides. If we did not love and trust them, they would not have been chosen and lured to the other side in the first place. The deception by the drafted player is not made at a conscious level, it's just human nature and it's all about money and power which corrupts our ability to be objective and loyal to two masters. This is why our court system created the defense attorney, and why our military created counter intelligence. Its strategy and its propaganda, and it works, and that's why the "powers to be" manipulate the chess pieces by sometimes changing their colors. Some players know they are being manipulated when their color is changed, but it brings them more money and power so they do not care. The rest have good intentions but do not even realize they are being manipulated. This tactic is also known by another name, Divide and Conquer. In battle sending an imperfect message with an imperfect team is obviously not ideal, but it's still being sent by YOUR team, your union leader, a leader that has common goals and common rewards with you, they are the best, because we have elected them to do a job for us. If you are not backing Moffett but believing the spin by those that have recently switched sides, you are taking food out of your own mouth. Showing unity and backing an imperfect situation still results in taking just as much ground, it's about unity and bargaining power. It's not necessary to wait around for that perfect attack because it will never come, the company will spin and attempt to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Ultimately it's not about any specific attack anyway, ASAP or whatever it makes no difference, it is and always has been only about power. If this company cared about safety it would not build pairings with 8 hour overnights, come on, are you that naive? Besides, do you really think Hoffa cares, no, he got a call from corporate America and was squeezed into denouncing Moffett. If he didn't they would spin the safety card against him and the Teamsters National with implication for truckers, future contracts, insurance rates etc...saying something like the Teamsters use safety as a bargaining chip, blah blah blah... Do you really think any pilot is going to do something unsafe for the contract, absolutely not, the only ones threatening safety here is the company with reduced rest, fatigue, and poverty. Do you not find it odd that Hoffa and the Teamsters are opposing a Teamster president publicly? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and work with one of their own? Why did they not sit down and help him strategize, correct any mistakes, and charge ahead? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and leverage a contract for all those pilots that have been paying Teamster dues, isn't that why we have all been paying Teamster dues in the first place? I sure haven't been paying dues so that the Teamsters National could come along and write this kind of an article undercutting our union leader and our unity. Whose side is the Teamsters National really on, it's obviously not the Republic pilots side.
No matter what Moffatt does the company is going to spin it like he is the terrorist and brainwash people like you into believing it, wake up, back your players that are trying to change things for you and your livelihood. Where has Hoffa been for the last 6 years, except collecting our dues. Seriously, do you really think an FO going for upgrade, signed off by a checkairman ready for the upgrade, who then fails, is not even capable of returning as a First Officer.
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