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[In response to Bill Benner’s Oct. 5 column] You can cross off your list watching basketball at the Berry Bowl. A new school was built in Logansport in the early ’70s
and the old school, including the wonderful Berry Bowl, was torn down.
I read the [Sept. 21 viewpoint] “Learn to say no at work” with disbelief that this is among the best advice
that can be given, when companies are now being required to do more with less.
Employees often react badly to, as they see it, being followed around. There are even privacy laws to consider.
I can appreciate, but heartily disagree, with the arguments [Bill Benner] advanced [in his Oct. 5 column] that Chicago
getting the 2012 Olympics would have benefited Indianapolis.
Sometimes I agree with Morton Marcus’ opinions and sometimes I don’t, but I was incredulous when I read his
“Let’s help keep legislators in check” in the [Sept. 28] IBJ.
The recent slump in the domestic auto industry reminds us of the importance of innovation and creating something that will
be attractive to the consumer tomorrow. Companies that don’t foresee and adapt to the changing needs of their consumers
ultimately fail.
Wouldn’t
it be refreshing if we focused on a different way of looking at the recession? What if we talked in
real terms about how much we lost in work days or goods and services?
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels warned Thursday morning that more state budget cuts could be forthcoming in light of a prolonged
drop in
tax collections. Indiana collected $3.3 billion in total revenue during the fiscal first quarter, 14 percent less than the
same period last year.
Several new restaurants are planned for the Indianapolis area.
Businesses reduced inventories at the wholesale level for a record 12th consecutive month in August, although in an encouraging
sign, sales jumped by the largest amount in 14 months.
Early September reports from retailers show sales are still falling for many amid worries about jobs and tight credit, but
many of the results came in better than expected.
New NASCAR start times may cause Indy Racing League to choose between pleasing its TV partner or local promoters.
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.
Marian University has received an anonymous $5 million gift to support student scholarships, the Indianapolis-based school
announced Wednesday.
The number of newly laid-off workers filing first-time claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level since early
January, as layoffs eased a bit amid a fledgling economic recovery.
Evansville-based Accuride Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday as part of a restructuring of debt.
Demonstrators on Wednesday backed Maine’s insurance superintendent for rejecting a request from the state’s largest private health insurer seeking an 18-percent rate hike for its individual insurance plans.
The new president of Community Hospital East says her job is all about health—the health of not just patients, but
the entire neighborhood.
Dow AgroSciences’ introduction of a promising new product is helping transform the Indianapolis company as it transitions
from a focus on traditional agricultural chemicals to genetically altered seeds. The subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Chemical
Co. partnered with St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. to develop what could become its biggest blockbuster, a genetically modified
corn variety it calls SmartStax.
BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit, is cataloging Indiana businesses offering contract services to pharmaceutical
and biotechnology companies, and discovering many small firms operating in relative obscurity.
