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CEO keeps buying, price keeps dropping-WEB ONLY
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 […]
EDITORIAL: Doctors should adapt to ratings-WEB ONLY
Practicing medicine has never been easy, but the profession is becoming particularly trying. Insurance companies are pounding down costs to the point that good factory managers make more money than some family doctors. Insurers also second-guess diagnoses and treatments, forcing some physicians to prescribe remedies they feel are inadequate. As if doctors needed another Excedrin […]
Doc sues Web-savvy ex-patient-WEB ONLY
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 […]
BEHIND THE NEWS: Questions about expenses have dogged Marsh before-WEB ONLY
Don Marsh lashed back last month after the owner of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing him of billing the company for millions of dollars in personal expenses. He said in a statement that “it is clear the out-of-state, venture capitalist group ownership is looking for someone to blame for their own poor business […]
EYE ON THE PIE: Find out what you support and why-WEB ONLY
I accidentally knocked her onto the airport floor. “I’m terribly sorry,” I said. “Are you hurt? Let me help you up.” “I’m fine,” she said, rising by herself. “It’s just another of life’s insults.” “I’m so sorry,” I said with true contrition. “Could I get you a coffee or something?” “Something,” she said, “but stronger […]
Designer drugs-WEB ONLY
Prescribe the wrong dose and some drugs won’t work. Or the patient is as good as dead. Consider the rat-poison-turned-blood-thinner warfarin, also known as Coumadin. Too much and a patient can bleed to death, too little and he can throw a clot and have a stroke. Given the considerable consequences of improper dosing for patients-and […]
SPORTS: Detroit reminds us not to squander what we have-WEB ONLY
On the morning of April 2, I spent three hours outside a crowded committee hearing room in the Statehouse, watching and listening to testimony regarding the funding problems of the Capital Improvement Board. Much of the supporting testimony regarded the importance of sustaining and growing Indy’s vibrant downtown. When the hearing was over, I drove […]
A&E: IMA introducing potentially towering Babble-WEB ONLY
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&E: IMA introducing potentially towering Babble-WEB ONLY
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 […]
Chain ousts, sues ad firm-WEB ONLY
Less than three months after hiring a new advertising agency, Steak n Shake has jettisoned and is now suing the Georgia-based firm. The hasty firing of The Varnson Group and subsequent lawsuit has industry analysts wondering if the tumult will become a distraction in the effort to turn the restaurant chain around. “It’s really difficult […]
NOTIONS: Hopeful news about the nukes aimed at your head-WEB ONLY
We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin. For the next two minutes, you must not agonize, à la my friend Dik, as your 401(k) becomes a 104(k). You must set aside all “move-that-bus” mania. You even must abandon your angst over the next finalist axed from “Idol.” Instead, because President Barack Obama and […]
Marriott key to CIB rescue-WEB ONLY
The pressure on Indianapolis’ new downtown JW Marriott convention hotel to perform-despite the recession-is about to increase exponentially. The Marion County Capital Improvement Board’s bailout depends on it. CIB, which manages the city’s professional sports stadiums and its convention center, needs to close a $47.4 million annual budget deficit. On April 2, the Indiana Senate’s […]
Revamped Omnicity goes public-WEB ONLY
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 […]
Rough time for golf-WEB ONLY
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 […]
Connersville feeling brunt of auto slump-WEB ONLY
Taking a sledge hammer to a car might seem like an illogical way to protest a tax hike on tobacco. But it sure feels good, especially to people who are stuck inside the economic pressure cooker that is Connersville. So on April 1, the day a 158-percent increase in the federal cigarette tax took effect, […]
Sarah Palin: A Colts fan?
Former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is apparently an Indianapolis Colts fan. At least it appears that way in the latest edition of Esquire magazine. In a story primarily about her husband,…