Vote no on Wishard
“Get out and Vote (no) for Wishard” should have been [Chris Katterjohn’s Oct. 26 column] for two simple
reasons:
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“Get out and Vote (no) for Wishard” should have been [Chris Katterjohn’s Oct. 26 column] for two simple
reasons:
Mitch Roob has it exactly right in his [Oct. 12] viewpoint “Math proficiency a must for workplace.”
I would like to thank IBJ for highlighting the role of interdisciplinary (“bundled”) medicine in the
Oct. 19 article, “Huddling on Health Care.”
[In response to Mickey Maurer’s Oct. 19 column asking for Hoosier heroes] Jimmy O’Donnell, survivor, U.S.S.
Indianapolis. He is approaching 90 years old.
As an all-too-frequent flier, I’ve had a chance to get the full-love experience of the new airport terminal numerous
times in its first year. The summary is that it’s both tolerable, and I have no choice.
The early signs point to meek efforts by the Obama administration to address gaping regulatory issues.
Occasionally, I go to hear the voice of the people at the mall. Rainy days are good for this exercise. No one is in a hurry
to get drenched in the parking lot.
Long tracking the emergence of information technology firms involved in the health and life sciences sector, the state’s
IT trade group, TechPoint, is undergoing a mitosis of sorts to help fuel the trend. It has created Advancing
Life Science & Health Care Information Technology, or ALHIT, which will focus on growing this subset of the IT realm.
Despite a swooning economy that has hammered the time-share condominium industry over the last 18 months, Resort Condominiums
International continues to outperform its market. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some pain at
the company formerly headquartered in Carmel.
Count Butler University basketball on the short list of teams that could make it to the Final Four.
Conseco Inc. provides Medicare supplement, cancer, heart/stroke and accident insurance policies as
well as annuities and life insurance products through a nationwide network of distributors.
Will it be harder to attract businesses to the Newport Chemical Depot than to sell a house where a grisly murder took place?
Historic preservation groups are fighting to save a 1914 church at the northeast corner of Washington Street and German Church
Road in Cumberland. The congregation of St. John United Church of Christ has been working on plans to build a new church on
Carroll Road and struck a deal to sell the old one to a developer. The plans are rumored to include demolition
to make way for a CVS store.
IRL races on Versus garner 59.5 percent fewer viewers than ESPN and ESPN2 attracted in 2008. Viewership on ABC is down 3 percent.
This week, you can win one of 10 pairs of tickets to a special screening of "It’s a Wonderful Life" Dec. 3 at
United Artists Circle Centre 9. The tickets include a silent auction, a visit from Santa, and free appetizers in the theater
lobby.
All you have to do to enter is fill out the form here.
I’ll pick 10 entrants at random to win. While you are filling out the form, tell us what makes your life so wonderful. Your
answer won’t help you win, but it will give us something to run on our contest results page next week.
Last week,
we offered two sets of tickets to see singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen ("The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never
Ends") Nov. 3 at the Murat Theatre’s Egyptian Room. Todd Snider and Bruce Robison are also on the bill.
The
winners? Jared Coppess and Brady Krueger. We also asked you to tell us your favorite three-named person. You can read some
of the responses here.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre presents "The Elephant Man," Oct. 30-Nov. 15. For details, click
here.
Cardinal Stage presents the comedy "Boom,"
Oct. 30-Nov. 15, at the Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington. For details, click here.
IU Auditorium presents Bob Dylan, Nov. 2. For details, click here.
Actors Theatre of Indiana presents "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra," Nov.
4-15, at Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Terrace. For details, click here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents "The Casket Girls," Oct. 29-30, at Pike Performing
Arts Center. For details, click here.
Clowes Memorial
Hall presents The Swell Season (best known for the title song from the movie "Once"), Nov. 2. For
details, click here.
Oct. 29
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ensemble 48 provides the live musical soundtrack for this
silent classic, considered by many to be one of the first great horror films. F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic, very atmospheric
1922 film is being offered as part of Butler University’s Mahler Project. For details, click here.