IBJ Podcast: What’s behind the Indiana Legislature’s special session on redistricting and how could it play out?
The battle to expand political power by changing boundaries on a map has a decades-long history in Indiana.
Mason King
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IBJ Podcast: Pat East on the buzz over buying businesses—and potential red flags
East discusses his exit from Hanapin Marketing, provides tips for those considering ETAs and breaks down the warning signs entrepreneurs should beware.
IBJ Podcast: The serious business of scaring patrons at Indy Scream Park
As a 10-year-old entrepreneur, Benjamin Nagengast sold pumpkins in Anderson. Now he employs 180 people every night to operate the Scream Park, which he says is like running a farm.
IBJ Podcast: Goodwill CEO expands programs, embraces mergers, tries new territories
Kent Kramer climbed the management ladder at Sam’s Club before finding his true calling supercharging growth for Goodwill’s employment, education and health services.
IBJ Podcast: Rugby star wants to make Indy the sport’s home field
After playing internationally, Bryce Campbell’s new goal is to raise the profile of Indianapolis in the rugby world and turn it into the center for the sport at the amateur, professional and national levels.
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner on whether buying a home is always a smart investment
It’s not at all necessary to get started right away, and there’s a navigable path for renters in the 40s to end up in a very comfortable situation by retirement.
IBJ Podcast: ‘It all comes back to relationships,’ says banker turned small-biz owner
Something was missing from her career as a commercial lender, and Cindy Schum found it in a small firm that sold janitorial and cleaning supplies. After early trepidation, she realized she already had the key to entrepreneurship.
IBJ Podcast: She kept her job but hit the road, lived in a school bus and reclaimed her calling
Karmen Johnson explains how she kept her job with an Indy-based credit union while exploring the country—and then added a career in art after a near-fatal accident brought it all into focus.
IBJ Podcast: Who’s afraid of the big, bad FAFSA? Here’s what families can expect this fall.
If you think you’re too well off to receive help paying for college, you’re probably wrong. And the process for filing the FAFSA isn’t nearly as arduous today as its reputation suggests.
IBJ Podcast: Indy’s fast-rising chief of community outreach on potholes, curbside recycling, rural roots
In eight years, Butler grad Natalie van Dongen she risen from an internship with the mayor’s office to the city’s point person for addressing the concerns and complaints of nearly 1 million people.
IBJ Podcast: Indiana’s first Miss Basketball on Caitlin Clark and 50 years of progress
Judi Warren explains how girls in the early 1970s had to fight for respect, funding and even decent practice time—and then how quickly attitudes changed after she guided Warsaw to the first state championship in 1976.
IBJ Podcast: ‘Am I crazy for doing this?’ asks attorney turned bookstore owner
Tiffany Phillips discusses how she got Wild Geese Bookshop off the ground, developed a national reputation and fights fears that championing the printed word in retail “doesn’t make any sense.”
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner’s advice for Gen X’s retirement dilemmas
Gen Xers who have retirement accounts have saved on average a measly $180,000, and nearly 50% of Gen Xers don’t even have a retirement plan. Among the hot topics: When’s the best time to start taking Social Security, given that it’s headed for a funding deficit in 2033?
Indianapolis among prospects for NHL expansion team, according to report
According to Daily Faceoff, the league informed its board of governors at its annual meeting that there were prospects for NHL expansion teams in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans.
IBJ Podcast: Purdue’s plans for downtown Indy and city’s move to fix West Street
IBJ’s Mickey Shuey unpacks Purdue’s high-density strategy to serve 15,000 students per year by 2075. He also digs deep into perhaps the greatest hindrance to growth in the northwest sector of downtown.
IBJ Podcast: CEO of fast-growing Indy housing developer on urban and suburban markets, being ‘a joiner’
Kelli Lawrence of Onyx + East discuss quadrupling revenue in five years, the economics of developing and pricing the firm’s projects and being the only woman in the room early in her career.
IBJ Podcast: Doug Boles on his ‘physically and emotionally draining’ May in dual role for Speedway, IndyCar
Boles discusses delivering bad news to Roger Penske in the glare of high-profile penalties before the Indy 500—plus efforts to improve car inspections and create an independent officiating board. And are TV blackouts really necessary?
IBJ Podcast: How Irsay’s daughters carved out big roles with Colts and could handle succession
Through past interviews with Carlie Irsay-Gordon and Kalen Jackson and new reporting from IBJ’s Mickey Shuey, this week’s podcast explores how the three Irsay sisters became key figures in the franchise and what challenges they soon could face.
IBJ Podcast: Explaining the Indy 500 tumult, Team Penske scandal and firings, and what’s important
Longtime motorsports journalist John Oreovicz joins host Mason King to explain the relevance of the latest Team Penske controversy and the firings of three top executives just days before the Indy 500.
IBJ Podcast: Whatever happened to downtown’s elevated People Mover?
The tram recorded roughly 6 million rider trips on a 1.4-mile track running between Methodist Hospital, University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children. But it came to a screeching halt in 2019.