HETRICK: Let’s make Thanksgiving a year-round concept
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
Companies are using Facebook as an alternative way of reaching a vast audience, not as a replacement for their own Web sites.
Herbert Hubert is an attorney with Hem Haw Hack and Hew. We met at the local Hot Java. He wanted to solicit my participation
in a variety of causes with a common theme.
The FBI on Tuesday executed search warrants at two companies led by high-profile executive Tim Durham—Indianapolis-based
Obsidian Enterprises Inc. and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Ohio securities regulators say Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. won’t be permitted to sell additional investment certificates
unless it satisfactorily answers a series of questions about the company’s ability to pay them back.
Initially, I was going to write this week about the innumerable foolish purchases we could make this holiday season. As
I looked through the Sunday newspaper, I felt overwhelmed by the advertisements that offered such deliciously dumb items as
a singing toothbrush holder.
Fair Finance Co. remained closed Monday morning, adding to the anxiety of Ohioans who have purchased about $200 million of
the company’s investment certificates.
The federal government on Monday morning dropped a high-profile civil lawsuit seeking to seize Tim Durham’s assets after
receiving
assurance they wouldn’t vanish.
A Texas company acknowledged Tuesday that the SEC is investigating transactions between it and Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co.
My grandson, Nathaniel, recently had his first birthday. Soon thereafter, I took him to a doughnut shop to teach
him the facts of life. If he is to become an adult Hoosier, there are things he must learn.
en years ago, Dodson Group CEO Jim Dodson came to IBJ with an idea to launch a program that would recognize
best practices in the not-for-profit community and reward organizations that practiced them. And not just with
a pat on the back—with hard cash.
Carl Brizzi’s short stint as a Fair Finance director reflects a larger pattern in Tim Durham’s business dealings.
Ohio securities regulators have asked for a mountain of additional information from Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. that
they say they would have to evaluate before deciding whether to allow the company to resume the sale of investment certificates.
Attorneys on Friday afternoon filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to rescind $200 million in investor purchases of Fair
Finance Co. securities and to slap Tim Durham and other company insiders with millions of dollars in punitive
damages.
Jack Swarbrick’s goal when he returned to Indiana nearly 30 years ago with a law degree from Stanford was to become involved
in the community, not be the person looking for the next Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy or Ara Parseghian.
Thirty years ago, the first so-called “sports commission” came into being. The rest is Indianapolis history.
In my fantasy world, the country singer asks, “Are you ready for some data, some labor market data, for the nation,
for the states, and for Indiana counties?” Now those are words that stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.
Wall Street analysts have described the potential sale of Chicago-based General Growth Properties as a “once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity” for a company to make “the deal of the decade” in the shopping-mall business.
Elvin has been one of Santa’s elves for decades. Normally a jolly fellow, he called me last week with desperation
in his voice.