Opinion

EYE ON THE PIE: Watch your pocket; someone may pick itRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Morton Marcus
The unexpected move of NCR Corp. from Ohio to Georgia illustrates how even the best corporate citizens can show a fickle streak.
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VIEWPOINT: CEOs, do you deserve your salaries?Restricted Content

June 22, 2009
John Guy
An exaggerated share of the nation's wealth is paid to CEOs of public companies, their minions and directors, through agreements made inside boardrooms, by highly compensated individuals who commit shareholders' money and are not subject to effective oversight.
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STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Political posturing puts session on strange trajectoryRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
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KINDELSPERGER: Historical advantages of endowments dive with marketRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Kris Kindelsperger
Life has changed in higher education and changed very rapidly. The value of most endowments, just like our portfolios and 401(k)s, has plummeted. Today, institutions with the strongest bottom lines are likely to be those with strong management and business plans that work in today's economy.
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HICKS: Recessions end, with or without government helpRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Mike Hicks
The worst is likely behind us, but difficult times lie ahead, especially for the unemployed.
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ALTOM: Go above and beyond Google for Web searchesRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Tim Altom
It's getting so you have to use a search engine on the Internet to find a search engine. There are now dozens, perhaps hundreds, many of them highly specialized.
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DINING: No waffling, Maxine's delivers

June 15, 2009
Andrea Muirragui Davis
It felt weird to pull into a gas station parking lot in search of lunch. But we forgot we were in a former auto repair shop as soon as we walked into Maxine's Chicken & Waffles, attached to the Citgo station at Ohio and East streets.
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HENDERSON: Urban planning is local oxymoronRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Tom Henderson
New neighborhood plopped in the middle of former cornfields are a disaster.
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Levengood deserves our thanksRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Barney Levengood has had a tough job and deserves our thanks.
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FEIGENBAUM: Problems pile up as legislators get back to workRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Ed Feigenbaum
Special session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
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VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Hard-hit manufacturing has great potentialRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Jerry Conover
Indiana still ranks near the top in factories' share of total jobs and in share of states' economic output generated by manufacturing. But it has been hard-pressed by the economy's major restructuring, and it won't look the same when the dust settles.
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VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Indiana has diverse manufacturing baseRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Steve Dwyer
The destinies of the troubled U.S. automotive sector and Indiana manufacturing are not inextricably tied. Our manufacturing industry is broad and diverse, and can weather the storms.
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SKARBECK: Chrysler deal succeeded thanks to fed interventionRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Ken Skarbeck
In the midst of the U.S. government's plan to fast-track Chrysler through bankruptcy, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock waged a lonely and unpopular battle.
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HICKS: Muncie's budget woes point to a troubled systemRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Mike Hicks
Yhe budget concerns that Muncie and other local governments face are really a circular problem. Taxes got out of hand largely because of an 18th century system of local government. That same system cannot fix the problem--for it is the problem.
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LOU'S VIEWS: Conner Prairie balloon ride marred by corporate logosRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Lou Harry
This week, balloons take visitors into Conner Prairie airspace, a wizard to and from Oz, and a grieving curmudgeon to animated adventures.
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BENNER: 965 days and counting until Super Bowl Sunday 2012Restricted Content

June 15, 2009
Bill Benner
Indianapolis is more than up to the task of hosting the Super Bowl.
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DINING: Binkley's Kitchen & Bar reclaims former drug store site

June 8, 2009
Lou Harry
Binkley's Drug Store occupied the corner of Kessler and College from 1928 to the early 1970s. Its namesake now occupying the same spot, Binkley's Kitchen & Bar, seems equally built to last—a friendly neighborhood joint that glances back without wallowing in nostalgia and stays progressive without being trendy.
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EDITORIAL: Daniels budget should be OK'dRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Overtures Gov. Mitch Daniels has extended to the General Assembly should be sufficient to end squabbling over the budget. Legislators ought to take the offer, pass a budget, and leave the Statehouse before they throw any more sand in the gears.
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MARCUS: We all helped kill the auto industryRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Morton Marcus
There are nearly no innocent parties to the conspiracy that brought the Big Three low, from greedy executives to combative labor unions to elderly uninformed stockholders.
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BYERS: Stimulus for health care benefits should be lifestyle changesRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Gayle L. Byers
The cost and severity of our state of health is not going to change until we do. No amount of cost-shifting or federal assistance will stem this problem.
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Will our kids know how to enjoy quiet?Restricted Content

June 8, 2009
The ability to enjoy silence, to be comfortable in it, to strip away all the noise and distractions is becoming somewhat of an art form.
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Let stadium users foot the billRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Let stadium users and sports teams pay for luxurious stadiums, not alcohol users.
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FEIGENBAUM: Let the state budget bickering begin againRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Ed Feigenbaum
Lawmakers 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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HICKS: Management's complicity with union doomed GMRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Mike Hicks
General Motors Corp.'s bankruptcy marked the second-largest commercial failure in modern history. It is an opportunity for deep reflection.
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ALTOM: Want tech product advice? Here's where to lookRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Tim Altom
Grabbers do little research before buying gadgetry. Investigators like to know in advance what they're getting. It's to the investigators I speak.
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