Banks aren’t known for creative names. Three in Indiana—in Mooresville, Fairmount and Munster—include “Citizens” in their names. Three others have “Peoples.” Eight have “Community.” And don’t ask about “First.”
Now there’s another blurring of bank brands. Greensfork Township State Bank, a…
Dr. Dmitry Arbuck treats pain for a living. But he might have to start taking his own medicine. Arbuck has built a a practice that by all traditional standards is exemplary. But patient reports on multiple online rating services make Arbuck seem arrogant, incompetent and downright scary. “This Dr. . is a QUACK,” one patient a wrote […]
In just one year, Indianapolis’ unemployment rate has risen from 4.5 percent to 8.2 percent. But don’t expect local economic development officials to complain too much. Not when 74 of Indiana’s 92 counties have higher unemployment rates than Marion County’s. “When I took this job 15 months ago and the Dow [Jones industrial average] was […]
Compared to most of the rest of the state and nation, Indianapolis is an occupational dynamo.
As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.
While newcomer Stanley’s doesn’t have the scale or history of Shapiro’s, it’s making
a valiant effort to bring real deli back to the neighborhoods near 86th Street and Ditch Road.
Conseco Inc. executives took hits to their pay packages last year as the Carmel-based company’s stock price plunged 59 percent. CEO Jim Prieur took home 18-percent less in total 2008 compensation than in 2007, according to Conseco’s preliminary proxy filed yesterday. Prieur earned no performance bonus last year, but still received nearly $2.2 million in […]
Conseco Inc. executives took hits to their pay packages last year as the Carmel-based company’s stock price plunged 59 percent. CEO Jim Prieur took home 18-percent less in total 2008 compensation than in 2007, according to Conseco’s preliminary proxy filed yesterday. Prieur earned no performance bonus last year, but still received nearly $2.2 million in […]
A Florida-based investor wants his fellow shareholders in Conseco Inc. to install him on the company’s board of directors, saying the board has failed for more than five years to act in shareholders’ interests. Roger Keith Long, an Indiana University alumnus, runs Otter Creek Management, which owns 1.4 million shares, or less than 1 percent, […]
A Florida-based investor wants his fellow shareholders in Conseco Inc. to install him on the company’s board of directors, saying the board has failed for more than five years to act in shareholders’ interests. Roger Keith Long, an Indiana University alumnus, runs Otter Creek Management, which owns 1.4 million shares, or less than 1 percent, […]
Conseco CEO Jim Prieur keeps putting his money where his mouth is. He hopes it makes a difference this time. Prieur bought 200,000 shares of the Carmel-based insurer April 2 with his own money, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That makes 570,000 shares Prieur has purchased since March […]
A former patient of local plastic surgeon Dr. Barry Eppley says he has made her life hell the past eight years. Eppley, in a recent lawsuit, says much the same about her. The patient, Lucille Iacovelli, has posted a steady stream of videos and caustic comments on Web sites about a face-lift surgery Eppley performed […]
This week, an online visit with a new Indianapolis Museum of Art, plus a local take on “Forbidden Broadway.” Impressive in its ambition, slick in its design, and savvy in its possible side effects, the new Indianapolis Museum of Artbirthed Web site, www.artbabble.com, should be on the Favorites list of anyone interested in visual art-anyone who […]
This week, an online visit with a new Indianapolis Museum of Art, plus a local take on “Forbidden Broadway.” Impressive in its ambition, slick in its design, and savvy in its possible side effects, the new Indianapolis Museum of Artbirthed Web site, www.artbabble.com, should be on the Favorites list of anyone interested in visual art-anyone who […]
A private investor in a Carmel-based wireless broadband provider has quietly taken the company public and has lofty plans to expand nationwide. Dick Beltzhoover, now president and CEO of Omnicity Corp. following a change of management, was fed up with losing money over the last several years, including a combined loss for fiscal 2007 and […]
A warm March gave Indiana golf course operators something to smile about as many of them saw business increase tenfold over the same month last year. But that didn’t quell their economic fears. Local course operators are still as nervous as a long-ball driver facing a stout crosswind. “I don’t think anybody knows exactly what […]
Dick Beltzhoover, a private investor in Omnicity Corp., a Carmel-based wireless broadband provider, has quietly taken the
company public and has lofty plans to expand nationwide.
Indiana golf course operators are nervous about how the recession might lead to fewer golfers and lost revenue.
Conseco CEO Jim Prieur keeps putting his money where his mouth is, purchasing more than a half-million shares of his company’s stock over two years.
Dr. Barry Eppley, an Indianapolis surgeon, says an online crusade by a disgruntled former patient is taking a toll on his
practice, and he’s suing her.
