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A year ago this week, my wife Cherí and I celebrated our first anniversary with the honeymoon we were too busy to take after our wedding. We told some friends we wanted a place that was warm, romantic and unpretentious. We wanted to wear shorts and T-shirts, not cruise-ship chic. They recommended Turks and Caicos, […]
When Stacie Floyd enrolled her daughter Kyli in kindergarten at Christel House Academy, she hoped Kyli would be able to earn a high school diploma there. Now, six years later, Floyd will get her wish. The academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, […]
The best theatrical adaptations of literature don’t require that you first read the original. They aren’t “Cliff’s Notes.” They don’t tease. They exist independent of their sources. And they don’t make you feel like you are in a classroom rather than a theater. For a terrific example of an adaptation that works, go no further […]
Media pundits regularly call the current economic crisis the worst since the Great Depression. One of the few Indianapolis financial experts who’s actually qualified to make such a comparison is Donald C. “Danny” Danielson, the 89-year-old vice chairman of City Securities Corp. For Danielson, who still comes to work every business day, the Great Depression […]
Of this, that and the other while wondering if NBA Commissioner David Stern had just taken a hit off Michael Phelps’ bong when he proclaimed this to be “the golden age of basketball” during his all-star weekend news conference in Phoenix. OK, perhaps the marijuana reference is a little harsh, but the golden age of […]
One of the largest independent survivors of the subprime debacle is staking its future on a real estate appraisal business based in Indianapolis. Kansas City, Mo.-based NovaStar Financial Inc. last year paid $750,000 in cash and a portion of future profits to acquire control of Indianapolis-based PipeFire LLC and rename the business StreetLinks National Appraisal […]
The Capital Improvement Board, short of cash and doing whatever it can to remain solvent, is considering asking a group of original investors in Circle Centre mall to forgive $34 million they loaned the city toward the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse back in 1997. Fair enough. The companies that invested demonstrated they were civic-minded when […]
I had friends who insisted for years that, when they went to Chicago, they had to go to Adobo Grill. When the restaurant opened up a location on Indy’s north side, those same friends, rather than celebrating, didn’t get around to dining there. And now that Adobo has moved downtown (its former space became the […]
Welcome to the convention of the future. Salespeople you’ve never met will approach you with an uncanny, maybe even unnerving, familiarity and strike up conversations eerily close to your thoughts. Signs and data centers will flash messages tailored to your interests, guiding you to displays, meetings, and products ro and services. You won’t need cash […]
First the good news about Indiana’s insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund: As part of its $787 billion stimulus, the federal government has just agreed to stop charging interest on its loans to pay benefits to the jobless. President Obama’s package allows Indiana to continue zero-percent borrowing for unemployment insurance through 2010, a provision that will […]
I’m sick. It’s just a cold. All my joints ache, I cannot speak, I don’t want any liquid or solid inputs and have little control over my nasal and other outputs. It’s just a cold that modern medicine acknowledges it cannot cure. Mitigation of symptoms is what we get. The throat is soothed by a […]
That sound you heard was a collective sigh from the Indy Racing League’s sales and marketing department.
IRL driver and Sports Illustrated cover girl Danica Patrick says she has not been contacted by anyone…
The gold hawkers are right, at least for now. Gold has been a better investment than stocks, bonds and
other conventional places to park moneyâ??hitting $1,000 an ounce today.
That signals investors are nervous about prospects for the economy…
By most accounts, attendance is up at this year’s NFL Combine, and not because it’s being held for the first time in Lucas Oil Stadium.
Veteran NFL scout Chris Landry, who serves as a…
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled to its lowest close in more than six years today as sharp declines in key financial shares led the market lower. The blue chips closed at their lowest level since Oct. 9, 2002, the last bear-market low. The Dow lost 89.68 points, or 1.2 percent, to end at 7,465.95. […]
Local contractors will be ready to pounce when bidding on the first parts of the combined overflow project begins in 2011. They’re hungry for more mega projects following completion last year of the $1.1 billion midfield terminal at Indianapolis International Airport and the $720 million Lucas Oil Stadium. Members of the Indiana Construction Association are […]
I have bad news for Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Colts and Indianapolis Indians ticket buyers. By the time you buy tickets for next season’s games, you’ll likely be hit with a higher ticket tax….
Circuit City’s demise was bad news for Indianapolis-based developer Kite Realty Group during the fourth quarter of 2008. Despite higher revenue, Kite suffered a $2 million loss in the period ended Dec. 31 due to the bankruptcy of the national electronics retailer, which had been the developer’s seventh largest tenant. The company released its quarterly […]
