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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Recent Blog Posts
Impressions of settling lawsuits
July 1, 2008
Comments(2)Eli Lilly and Co. settled its racial discrimination lawsuit yesterday for $64,000, ending a claim by an employee
who alleged the company fired her because she was disfigured through exposure to a blood pathogen.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
MoreBase closings and health care
June 30, 2008
Comments(3)Weâ??ve reached the season when companies start lining up employee health care coverage for the following
year.
Like prior years, companies will complain about skyrocketing costs and workers will complain about getting
fewer benefits. Study after study suggests both parties will...
MoreProgress with entrepreneurship
June 26, 2008
Comment(1)Compendium Blogwareâ??s announcement today that it raised $1.6 million in private funding is another brick
in
the wall as the Indianapolis area and the state continue their push to build a culture of entrepreneurship.
Investors are showing more interest...
MoreThe next 100 years
June 25, 2008
Comment(1)Thereâ??s nothing like travel to change oneâ??s perspective on the world.
Graham Toft, perhaps the stateâ??s most experienced economic development expert, has traveled a lot in the
past
couple of years, consulting to state governments worried about rebounding from their doldrums.
The...
MoreExpert: 75 mph might be safe
June 24, 2008
Comments(8)A Purdue University civil engineering professor made news this week by rolling out a study showing the new
70 mph speed limit on rural interstates in Indiana caused virtually no increase in fatalities or injuries.
The study was prompted by the...
MoreDo ads make you feel better?
June 23, 2008
Comments(2)Weâ??re increasingly bombarded with ads for health care products ranging from drugs for osteoporosis and restless
leg syndrome to knee replacements.
Zimmer went over the heads of doctors when it advertised its knee replacements designed specifically for women,
and...
MoreIs Hall Render marooned at No. 2?
June 18, 2008
Comment(1)If a high rank brings bragging rights and marketing juice, then the Indianapolis law firm of Hall Render
Killian Heath & Lyman (permission granted to catch your breath) has plenty of ammo.
But it never quite gets the most ammo.
Hall Render...
MoreFarm and suburban polluters
June 16, 2008
Comments(0)Drive through areas hit by the deluge of rain in the past few days and youâ??ll see mind-boggling soil
erosion.
At the base of myriad fields lie deltas of sediment washed downhill from elsewhere in their respective watersheds.
Not only was...
MoreDepending on a three-legged stool
June 9, 2008
Comment(1)Economic development experts have long contended that business investment and good jobs gravitate to places
where business, government and higher education are on the ball and get along together.
If one of the three legs doesnâ??t carry its weight, the other...
MoreRaise the cigarette tax again?
June 5, 2008
Comments(20)Health advocates beamed with a â??told-you-soâ?? response this week when state officials announced that cigarette
sales dropped dramatically after taxes were raised last July.
Sales fell nearly 18 percent, apparently a direct result of boosting the tax 44 cents to a...
MoreMaking companies say, 'I do'
June 4, 2008
Comments(0)Lots of Indiana towns will do almost anything to get a factory or warehouse. That often means skipping pointed
questions about corporate citizenship for fear of losing the project.
A Lebanon city council member isn't looking the other way, though.
Dick Robertson...
MoreReturn Weir Cook to airport title?
June 3, 2008
Comments(35)Weir Cook has been dead a long time, since 1943, but a military veterans group wants to bring his name
back to what is now Indianapolis International Airport.
The war heroâ??s name was on the airport from 1944, a...
MoreEtiquette for high gas prices
June 2, 2008
Comments(10)It seems like more people are driving below the speed limit now that gas has become expensive.
Particularly on interstates, it isnâ??t uncommon to come upon congestion only to realize that somebody, for
no apparent reason, is puttering along and holding...
MoreFarm bill stranglehold
May 28, 2008
Comments(2)It isn’t easy providing tomatoes to the nation. Consider the ongoing
struggle at Red Gold Inc. The state’s largest food processor, which is headquartered
north of Anderson in Orestes, was all but locked out of buying tomatoes from Indiana growers under...
MoreAnalyzing Speedwayâ??s success
May 27, 2008
Comments(8)If you were at the track over the weekend or in the past few weeks, you made your way through Speedway,
an island of stability in a county where some other older communities, like Beech Grove, are slipping into
decay.
Speedway...
MoreHubbard blasts Florida over oil
May 22, 2008
Comments(4)Al Hubbard, the Indianapolis businessman who stepped down last year as director of President Bushâ??s National
Economic Council, is quoted in a recent Barronâ??s column as hammering Floridians and others living along
U.S.
coasts for squeezing the tourniquet on additional...
MoreBowl reaction from elsewhere
May 21, 2008
Comments(13)Many a back was slapped in Indianapolis and among the Indy troops in Atlanta yesterday when the NFL team
owners opted for Indianapolis over Phoenix and Houston to host the 2012 Super Bowl.
Elsewhere, though, the reaction was mixed.
The Arizona Republic...
MoreIndianapolis, cold in winter?
May 20, 2008
Comments(5)Does Indianapolis experience winter? NFL owners meeting in Atlanta today could be forgiven for wondering, if
all they knew about Indianapolis was the information in the Super Bowl bid package.
The 30-plus pages in the executive summary have plenty...
MoreThe next housing challenge
May 19, 2008
Comments(8)As the housing debacle continues to unwind, another big â?? really big â?? issue in housing is going largely
unnoticed.
Houses built in the 1950s are at risk of falling into the same decay experienced by many older neighborhoods,
some of...
MoreSubsidizing thy neighbor
May 14, 2008
Comments(3)Should a city give incentives to companies that want to leave the city and expand in another town?
That question is dogging Muncie officials after they offered a $600,000 loan to a Spanish company that plans
to move an auto-parts plant...
MoreGas edges past $4 in N. Indiana
May 14, 2008
Comments(2)Gas is over $4 in northwest Indiana, according to http://www.indianagasprices.com/.
In some places, itâ??s up to $4.09.
How long until it hits $4 in the Indianapolis area, and how high will it go?
MoreEmmis does better, sort of
May 12, 2008
Comments(0)Emmis Communications chief Jeff Smulyan today was more positive about the companyâ??s fiscal fourth-quarter
performance
than heâ??s been about an earnings report in a long time.
Revenue at its U.S. radio stations, which have been dogged by an industry...
MoreGood news on a Friday
May 9, 2008
Comments(0)Manufacturing seems to churn out about as many lay-off headlines as cars these days, but plenty of good
news about the sector is buried in a recent Ball State University study.
Indiana manufacturing workers are accomplishing far more work than peers...
MoreBranson bailing out of ethanol?
May 8, 2008
Comments(4)British entrepreneur Richard Branson has unloaded a company thatâ??s building two ethanol plants in the U.S.,
including one near Fort Wayne.
In an interview with Fortune magazine during the peak of ethanol optimism in early 2006, Branson said industry...
MoreEconomy jitters won't go away
May 7, 2008
Comments(2)Exit polls yesterday showed Hoosiers voted their pocketbooks. Theyâ??re worried about the economy.
That has a familiar ring. Many voters made a similar point four years ago when Gov. Mitch Daniels beat
Gov. Joe Kernan by promising to improve the economy.
Now,...
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.