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A&E: Rate expectations: Reviewing without stars-WEB ONLY

This week, two community theater productions reinforce my decision not to give “star” ratings. You may have noticed that in this column I never give shortcut ratings. No “three and a half stars.” No “thumbs up.” While I appreciate ratings when it comes to buying vacuum cleaners, I don’t find them useful in talking about […]

Investor makes case against Conseco’s board-WEB ONLY

An activist shareholder vying to become a director of Conseco Inc. says the insurance company’s board “completely misjudged” the risks it faced when it emerged from bankruptcy in 2003 and hasn’t recovered since. Now an independent shareholder advisory firm is siding with him. “The board is blindly pushing forward into risky waters with limited view […]

NOTIONS: Whole-hog health scare: A deadly double standard-WEB ONLY

The planet is all agog over swine flu. We’re not supposed to call it swine flu. We’re supposed to call it H1N1. That way, the hogs and pigs won’t get upset and U.S. pork sales won’t decline any further. And besides, the disease isn’t transmitted through swine, um, “donations” to the human cause. We spread […]

Doctors joining hospital payrolls-WEB ONLY

Amid the aroma of its lobby coffee shop and soothing tones of its player piano, the Indiana Heart Hospital sits at the center of significant changes in how Indianapolis’ hospitals and doctors do business. The 56-bed facility in Castleton was launched in 2003 as a forprofit venture between Community Health Network and its cardiovascular physicians. […]

The recession’s domino effect-WEB ONLY

Call it a trickle-down effect, but not the kind President Reagan would have liked. The recession has cost most institutional investors, such as university endowments, about a quarter of their value. As a result, venture capitalists’ primary source of funding has dried up. The implications for Hoosier entrepreneurship are stark. “Right now, it is very […]

A&E: Rate expectations: Reviewing without stars-WEB ONLY

This week, two community theater productions reinforce my decision not to give “star” ratings. You may have noticed that in this column I never give shortcut ratings. No “three and a half stars.” No “thumbs up.” While I appreciate ratings when it comes to buying vacuum cleaners, I don’t find them useful in talking about […]

‘Epic’ losses hit hospitals-WEB ONLY

Financial reports trickling in from Indianapolis’ major hospitals show why the city’s health care building boom ground to a near halt this year. It ran into a wall of investment losses. A case in point: Indianapolisbased Clarian Health suffered a whopping $633 million in losses on its investments and interest-rate swaps last year. That wiped […]

Sides square off over big rate hike-WEB ONLY

Customer groups say an 18-percent rate hike sought by the Indianapolis Department of Waterworks is excessive even for a utility drowning in variable-rate bond debt that’s swelled since financial markets collapsed. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is weighing the department’s request filed in February to tap customers for an additional $22 million in the wake […]

EDITORIAL: Embracing risk key to revival-WEB ONLY

Risk has a bad name these days, for understandable reasons. In recent years, many corporate executives managed as if the boom times never would end, along the way ratcheting up debt to unfathomable levels. Many bankers, meanwhile, doled out loans to the lowliest of borrowers, and traded complex securities few truly understood. Yet a strong […]

WTHR’s reign faces new test-WEB ONLY

Early ratings from the all-important May sweeps suggest WTHR-TV Channel 13’s 15-year reign as king of local television news is secure for now. But the big test will come this fall when NBC’s weakening prime-time lineup is expected to put the ratings crown in play. The threat to the local affiliate will worsen in September […]

Andretti, Patrick, Fisher revved up

With the Indianapolis 500 fast approaching, speed is the name of the game. It appears Indy Racing League drivers—some of them anyway—are gaining speed with corporate America.

If you haven’t seen Marco Andretti’s Gillette…

Sports talk radio war rages

The battle for sports talk radio supremacy in central Indiana rages on—and is delivering some unlikely results. The biggest winner in 2009’s first quarter radio ratings is basketball coach turned on-air personality Dan…