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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Recent Blog Posts
Your unemployment rate
November 12, 2009
Comments(2)Unemployment is hitting various demographic groups quite differently.
MoreIs China a 'paper dragon'?
November 11, 2009
Comment(1)For various reasons, more experts are doubting China's underlying strength.
MoreHolding steady on Wawasee
November 10, 2009
Comment(1)Lake Wawasee, the popular northern Indiana getaway for some of the wealthiest people in the Indianapolis area, is doing fairly
well despite the real estate bust.
MoreLayoff euphemisms
November 9, 2009
Comments(6)Corporations simply don't like direct language, a Butler University professor says.
MoreWal-Mart gets into the casket business
November 6, 2009
Comments(3)Batesville Casket Co., the world's largest manufacturer, says it's watching, but isn't worried.
MoreSteak n Shake and the new NEA chief
November 5, 2009
Comments(2)Should Biglari take Landesman's remarks as praise where he can get it, or consider them an insult?
MoreRating prestigious ZIP codes
November 4, 2009
Comments(6)A top-selling real estate agent pegs 46032 in Carmel and 46240 in Indianapolis as tops.
MoreSaturn's loss, Byrider's gain
November 3, 2009
Comments(2)J.D. Byrider, the Indianapolis chain of used-car lots, is courting Saturn dealers to come into the fold as Byrider franchisees.
MoreExpert: Wishard referendum will pass
November 2, 2009
Comments(0)IUPUI political scientist Bill Blomquist predicts the Wishard hospital referendum will pass by a "comfortable" margin.
Marketing a former nerve gas site
October 29, 2009
Comments(2)Will it be harder to attract businesses to the Newport Chemical Depot than to sell a house where a grisly murder took place?
MoreHas Bayh's moment arrived?
October 28, 2009
Comments(8)Fiscal responsibility could be the mettle Sen. Evan Bayh needs to land in a higher office.
Bicyclists and traffic laws
October 27, 2009
Comments(16)As more bicyclists take to the streets in Indianapolis, is safety a greater concern?
MoreShould Indiana take Gates' money?
October 26, 2009
Comments(6)Indiana wants to apply for controversial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to seek federal education grants.
MoreCutting corners on the I-69 extension
October 23, 2009
Comments(4)Gov. Mitch Daniels is raising eyebrows in the Evansville area for ramrodding a section of the Interstate 69 extension ahead
of schedule by a whopping three years.
MoreThe right mix of work and vacation
October 22, 2009
Comments(0)Americans have long desired the comparatively lavish vacations enjoyed by peers in other industrialized countries, but the
higher productivity of the U.S. economy is the trade-off.
MoreDrugs in our water
October 21, 2009
Comments(7)Researchers are finding a host of pharmaceutical residues in tributaries to the White River, from which Indianapolis and other
cities draw drinking water.
MoreA harrowing tale of decline
October 20, 2009
Comments(0)Telling a story about a company and a union that both feared the future, and fought to a bitter draw.
MoreAfraid to die
October 19, 2009
Comments(3)Fear of death may be causing Americans to expect too much from our medical system when it comes to prolonging the lives of
the old and infirm.
MoreAnother year of bank migration?
October 16, 2009
Comments(0)More than a year a year after the financial crisis began, businesses are still looking for new bank relationships.
MoreAssessing the stimulus in Indiana
October 15, 2009
Comment(1)The preliminary numbers are out on the effect of the $787 billion federal stimulus on Indiana.
MoreTaking Ostrom to Indiana forests
October 13, 2009
Comments(0)How rich that Elinor Ostrom, the Indiana University professor who won a Nobel prize for economics yesterday, got her nails
dirty researching how people in pockets of forests in undeveloped nations allocate their natural resources.
MoreOrganizing armies of volunteers
October 10, 2009
Comment(1)A company has started to organize logistics for trade associations and other groups that gather for conventions in Indianapolis
and want to "give back" to the city while they're here.
MoreFederal workers dodging layoffs
October 9, 2009
Comments(0)One of the best places to have waited out this recession was in federal government. Federal workers have pretty much gotten
a bye on pink slips at a time private sector employees have taken it on the chin.
MoreSteady as he goes at Purdue's Krannert School
October 8, 2009
Comments(3)As Rick Cosier's tenure as dean of Purdue University's MBA program nears an end, expect the program to continue turning out top "Quant Jock" operations managers--people who relentlessly figure out how to manufacture things better and cheaper.
Dow AgroSciences and the Holy Grail
October 7, 2009
Comment(1)Dow AgroSciences could boost its market share in genetically altered corn almost overnight by inventing a perennial corn.
But investors might not have the patience.
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.