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(In deference to ’60s radical Abbie Hoffman and his 1971 cult paperback “Steal This Book,” I hereby relinquish our copyright to this column and give you permission to copy it. I’ll tell you what to do with it later.) Silly me, I thought Mitch Daniels had really shaken things up and done a great job in his first four years as governor. To hear his Democratic opponents in the upcoming election tell it, you’d think he had provided uninspired leadership…
I’d like to put in a kind word for one of the most underused tools in business. It lets you stay in contact with lots of others online, send and receive files, make phone calls, keep in touch with things at home, and even hold Web videoconferences, after a fashion. It’s known generically as “instant messaging,” but you may know it under any number of trade names: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM and many others. I use both MSN…
Staggeringly high gasoline prices and a sputtering economy are preventing scores of would-be travelers from packing up their thirsty sport-utility vehicles and heading to their favorite vacation destinations. Nationwide, hotel occupancy rates slipped to 68 percent through June of this year, down from 71 percent the same time last year, according to the most recent data from Tennessee-based Smith Travel Research. For the most part, local hotel operators are feeling the same pain. Through the first six months of the…
They say the bodies are piled high on Wall Street of those who were right at the wrong time. Well, with all the soured predictions about financial stocks the last year, the grave diggers have been especially busy. It began around a year ago when Bear Stearns began to plunge, and a famous currency trader from England put a few hundred million dollars into the stock. It was at about $120 at the time. Then, Bear fell to $100 in…
The locally based headwear retailer Hat World made a name for itself by snatching up competitors and opening hundreds of
stores around the country. However, after sluggish sales in the fiscal year that ended Feb. 2, the company–a
unit of Nashville, Tenn.-based Genesco Inc.–says it plans to open fewer stores than usual this year so
officials can put their focus back on existing operations.
Last year, American Cabaret Theatre’s young adult production of “High School Musical” was, well, a very good high school musical. If you happened to be talked into going because your niece was in the cast, you would have had a surprisingly good time. This year ACT’s young adult “The Wiz” (running through Aug. 17) is similar. If this were a high school show, you’d be amazed at the vocal talent. If you approached it as children’s theater, you’d be impressed…
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced this afternoon that the school has formed a 13-person search committee to find a replacement for athletic director Rick Greenspan. The search committee will include faculty members, administrators and alumni. The search committee will be…
Two area law firms, Coleman Stevenson LLC and The Montel Law Firm PC, have merged. Coleman Stevenson specializes in corporate law, real estate, governmental services and civil litigation. The Montel Law Firm specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and real estate and land development. The new firm, which has seven attorneys and three support […]
Open-wheel race driver Paul Tracy may not be done this year on the Indy Racing League circuit. This morning, Walker Racing officials told IBJ they continue to work with Subway Restaurants and other…
Wireless-device distributor Brightpoint Inc. is moving its headquarters from Plainfield to northwest Indianapolis, near where it was founded almost 20 years ago. The company, which has about 65 headquarters employees and about 1,000 workers in Indiana, plans to share a new building with software developer Interactive Intelligence Inc. and engineering firm Woolpert Inc. along Interstate […]
Louisiana-based Cross Road Centers, a third-party logistics provider, plans to spend about $6.7 million to open a distribution center near Indianapolis International Airport and hire 30 workers by 2011. The 600,000-square-foot warehouse will be in an existing Duke Realty Corp. building in the AirWest Industrial Park. Cross Road Centers expects to open the facility by […]
Indiana University announced that it received a record $525.3 million in grants and awards for research and other programs in the 2007-08 fiscal year. The amount was an increase of 21 percent over the prior year. IU said $263.4 million came from federal sources, also a record. It was the first time any school in […]
First off, an update on the new plans for the Grain Dealers building: London Witte Group has hired locally based Lynn Hines Design Associates to…
Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France victory was cemented in Paris July 27, but the wheels that carried him to victory were made in Speedway.
While Zipp Speed Weaponry has been providing high-end bicycle wheels…
“Premier cannot independenty verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons…”
So say the presenters of “Bodies…the Exhibition,” the controversial show–featuring cadavers, body parts, and organs–being presented here at Claypool…
By Erik Stegemiller Special to IBJ Hoosier Orchid Co., a far-northwest-side company that grew to become one of the nation’s most specialized orchid growers, is going out of business at the end of August. Founder William Rhodehamel said the ornamental flowers have become a commodity now stocked even at stores like Costco. “It used to […]
City planners are seeing red over the bright yellow facade at a new Buffalo Wild Wings under construction along Washington Street downtown. Turns…
Only one other area of the country saw its unemployment rate jump faster in June than the Elkhart and Goshen region in northern Indiana, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Elkhart’s rate shot up 2.8 percentage points, to 7 percent, from June last year. That rise tied with identical increases in Cape Coral-Fort […]
As fans of the late Milton Friedman gather at the Conrad Hotel tomorrow night to celebrate the libertarian
economist, theyâ??ll have plenty to crow about.
Ironically, though, Friedmanâ??s ideas about turning education over to market forces have failed to gain much…
At 2 p.m. today, IRL officials are expected to unveil their 2009 schedule. Motorsports sources tell IBJ there will be 18 races next year (10 ovals and eight road courses), with the Nashville…
