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ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: Render unto the county what is the county’s

August 1, 2005

Well, not really. They should, however, fork over a few bucks to the government in the form of user fees. Like I said, this may be heresy, but I’ve never been mistaken for a true believer. As anyone who’s picked up a newspaper in the past few months knows, the city and county are facing huge budget shortfalls. And depending on whom you believe, it totals between $10 million and $35 million in the upcoming fiscal year alone. Mayor Bart…

Firm plans to get personal with clients’ home pages: Former gubernatorial candidate runs Web business

July 18, 2005

Developing an Internet home page that gives users more options for content than what behemoths such as America Online and Yahoo! offer through their syndicated selections has become the ambition of George Witwer. The 46-year-old Bluffton native, who once aspired to be Indiana governor, launched the northwest-side Humanizing Technologies in January 2000. With much of the product’s research and development in the can, the venture is close to weaning itself from investors and, for the first time, could turn a…

Historic battle settled: Prairie pact lays out plans without judging past practices

July 11, 2005

But whatever Earlham College puts in the 41-year history of credits and debits, it will have no bearing on the resolution of a decades-long dispute over control of the Hamilton County attraction. That deal is largely done. Carter and Earlham board Chairman Mark B. Myers ended nearly two years of negotiation July 5, putting quill-topped ballpoint to paper in front of a cheering crowd in the museum’s Welcome Center. The agreement-which frees Conner Prairie from Earlham’s control and calls for…

Employers promoting fitness: To battle steep insurance costs, businesses help employees get healthier

July 11, 2005

Wearing a pedometer, Kelly Dircksen treads 2,000 or so steps a day at the office, racking up her highest counts in her treks to the photocopier. Her 2-1/2-mile daily goal entails after-work walks, as well. The 34-year-old quoting specialist said her company pays 50 percent of any fitness-related costs for her and her family, including a Weight Watchers program, running shoes for her kids, and the entry fee for her son’s marathon. “I’m definitely healthier,” said Dircksen, who celebrates incremental…

State plays wait, see: Indiana likely to follow federal lead regarding oversight of charities

July 4, 2005

As the national conversation about improving not-for-profit oversight gains volume, Indiana’s top charity watchdog is tuning in-while he considers whether to join the cacophony. Attorney General Steve Carter convened an informal group of advisers to weigh in on the topic last year, ultimately pushing for changes in state law that give him more ways to deal with abuses in the sector. Now he’s content to let federal efforts play out before determining what more can be done to keep the…

Party concept finds oodles of followers: Oogles n Googles franchises could hit 40 this year

June 27, 2005

Anxious to get their unproven enterprise off the ground, Kevin and Danya Mendell offered their first customer a price of $50 to organize a child’s birthday party. That was just three years ago. This year, the Mendells’ Carmel-based company, Oogles n Googles, is expected to reach $1 million in revenue. The venture has been so successful that parents now shell out $325 to let them entertain their offspring, and up to 12 friends, for a few hours. But the firm’s…

NOTIONS: Standing face to face with the end of the universe

June 20, 2005

Editor’s note: Bruce Hetrick this month won first place for best bylined commentary in a national competition conducted by the Alliance of Area Business Publications. The winning entry, about Hetrick’s wife, Pamela Klein, was first published in IBJ on March 1, 2004. It is reprinted here. Klein died March 5, 2005. It’s Saturday morning. I’m sitting on the window ledge in my wife, Pam’s, room at Methodist Hospital. Outside, the February sky is as gray as my spirit. While Pam…

TAKING A GAMBLE: Charity poker fund-raisers risk running afoul of the law

June 13, 2005

When it comes to charity poker in Indiana, players and organizers alike need to know more than when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. They also need to know whether they’re walking-or running-away from a legal game. Poker’s growing popularity has given rise to a veritable jackpot for aficionados nationwide. In Indiana, where wagering is only allowed at state-sanctioned riverboat casinos, many of those who want more than a home game are finding action at tournaments that benefit…

Rule changes to get scrutiny: State agencies now must consider economic impact

May 30, 2005

Indiana’s small-business owners will encounter a friendlier regulatory environment in July, when sweeping legislation takes effect requiring state agencies to consider the impact of their policies on small businesses before adopting them. House Enrolled Act 1822 should help ease the burden of what advocates consider unnecessary regulations on small businesses by requiring agencies that intend to change or adopt a rule to provide an economic-impact statement first. The statement must include a regulatory-flexibility analysis that evaluates alternative methods that could…

EYE ON THE PIE: Indiana needs action, not analysis

May 23, 2005

Indiana and other states have economic incentives for businesses. We try to attract new businesses, to keep businesses here, and to encourage existing businesses to expand. Yet we do not feel sufficiently successful. Often, we are told that our failing is the inadequate development of entrepreneurial firms. The guys and gals with bright ideas just don’t get going in Indiana. Does our culture stifle creativity and the innovative spirit? Do our institutions make us docile and repress our flowering potential?…

Helping seniors get online: Teen-founded organization teaches computer literacy

May 9, 2005

Philip Ealy became quite deft at pounding the keys of his manual typewriter while processing orders during a career in the construction industry. But when his son gave him a laptop, the gap in technology was too great to overcome. So the 88-year-old resident of Manor Care at Summertrace in Carmel enrolled in a computer class at the independent living facility offered by an upstart not-for-profit known as Senior Connects. The thrust of Senior Connects’ mission-to promote computer literacy among…

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Traveling on the ritual road from loneliness to love

May 9, 2005

AVON, CONN.- I’m sitting alone, in my red sedan, in the parking lot at 40 Tower Lane, an office building where I last worked in 1991. It’s late at night. Rain pelts the pavement. And those who now work here have long since gone home to their spouses and families. I’m parked in the very spot where my best friend became more than that one fateful October afternoon. Pam had invited me to lunch that day to celebrate my birthday….

Plainfield, Avon work on land annexation agreement: Pact could pave way for mammoth industrial park by Browning Investments

April 25, 2005

Officials from the towns of Plainfield and Avon are negotiating to share annexation of a large parcel of unincorporated land that a mammoth industrial and distribution park will be built upon. Locally based developer Browning Investments Inc. has much of the 1,100-acre tract north of its Plainfield AirTech Business Park in Hendricks County under contract. When finished, the decade-long project will boast 15 million square feet of space, almost equaling the entire Plainfield industrial market. It dwarfs the 5.5-million-square-foot AirTech…

Pacers gain traction with fans, sponsors: But Ron Artest’s return presents a marketing challenge

April 25, 2005

Pacers average attendance jumped from 16,558 last year to 16,995 this season. While it appears to be a small difference, it’s almost twice the percentage increase league-wide, and it pushed Pacers attendance higher than anytime since the 17,889 average in the second season in Conseco Fieldhouse. Capacity is 18,345. The Pacers enjoyed a slight attendance spike after Reggie Miller announced his retirement in February. But interest was already bubbling as the team was in the midst of an unlikely playoff…

CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary: Giving credit where credit’s due

April 25, 2005

CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary Giving credit where credit’s due Over the last 25 years, one of the ways we’ve tried to give back to the business community that supports us is to recognize the people and companies who’ve made a difference. These programs have given us the opportunity to celebrate honorees and their accomplishments both in our pages and at public events. Each in their own way, the programs have been not only gratifying but, well, fun. I’d like to take…

NOTIONS: Good grief, my mailbox runneth over with love

April 4, 2005

One night last week, after dining out with friends, I walked through the cold March mist to my mailbox. I expected more medical bills for failed cancer treatments, another batch of sympathy cards and some catalogs trying to sell my late wife clothing she no longer needs. Instead, after trudging back to the house and sorting through the pile of promotional material, I found the letter from the vulture. The vulture’s first sentence consoled me on the loss of my…

Sweet Spot: Local philanthropists plan $15M chocolate facility on Indianapolis’ north side

March 28, 2005

Local philanthropists plan $15M chocolate facility on Indianapolis’ north side Two local philanthropists have bought 51 percent of Endangered Species Chocolate Co., based in Talent, Ore., and plan to move production of the company’s gour met dark chocolate to Indianapolis. Randy Deer and Wayne Zink, founders of the Back Home Again Foundation, paid $3 million in January for majority control of Endangered Species and plan to invest another $15 million in a manufacturing facility and new marketing strategy. “We wanted a…

Aprimo escalates partnership with SAS: Tech firm says deal doesn’t mean merger is in the cards

March 21, 2005

Last week, Aprimo and North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc. escalated an agreement they entered last October. What began as a cross-promotion partnership has led to an outright integration of the two firms’ software. Aprimo President and CEO Bill Godfrey is certain his deal with SAS simply means sharing the trail for a spell. Ever the entrepreneur, Godfrey’s eyes are on growing his firm large enough to conquer marketing’s uncharted territory single-handedly. But just as the untamed Old West gave way…

NOTIONS: Hazy logic: No business should have a license to kill

March 21, 2005

Saturday, Feb. 26, was the second-tolast day my boys, Austin and Zach, saw their stepmom alive. They didn’t see much of Pam that day. She and they slept late-Pam because she was ill with cancer, Austin and Zach because they’re teen-agers. Once everyone awoke, Zach had a six-hour photo assignment at the IU Natatorium. Late that afternoon, I took Austin to a movie, while my sister-in-law stayed with Pam. When we all returned home, we watched a video, discussed its…

GERALD BEPKO Commentary: Chicago World’s Fair is model for Indiana

March 14, 2005

Cities seem to progress in stages with moments of decline, growth, exceptional energy, and, at times, a sense of destiny. For many years, Indianapolis has been a city on the move, a little like Chicago in 1893 when it hosted a World’s Fair. Chicago sought to shed its frontiertown image and establish itself as a city of global consequence. It beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., for the right to host the fair. In hosting it, Chicago…

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ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: Render unto the county what is the county’s

Firm plans to get personal with clients’ home pages: Former gubernatorial candidate runs Web business

Historic battle settled: Prairie pact lays out plans without judging past practices

Employers promoting fitness: To battle steep insurance costs, businesses help employees get healthier

State plays wait, see: Indiana likely to follow federal lead regarding oversight of charities

Party concept finds oodles of followers: Oogles n Googles franchises could hit 40 this year

NOTIONS: Standing face to face with the end of the universe

TAKING A GAMBLE: Charity poker fund-raisers risk running afoul of the law

Rule changes to get scrutiny: State agencies now must consider economic impact

EYE ON THE PIE: Indiana needs action, not analysis

Helping seniors get online: Teen-founded organization teaches computer literacy

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Traveling on the ritual road from loneliness to love

Plainfield, Avon work on land annexation agreement: Pact could pave way for mammoth industrial park by Browning Investments

Pacers gain traction with fans, sponsors: But Ron Artest’s return presents a marketing challenge

CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary: Giving credit where credit’s due

NOTIONS: Good grief, my mailbox runneth over with love

Sweet Spot: Local philanthropists plan $15M chocolate facility on Indianapolis’ north side

Aprimo escalates partnership with SAS: Tech firm says deal doesn’t mean merger is in the cards

NOTIONS: Hazy logic: No business should have a license to kill

GERALD BEPKO Commentary: Chicago World’s Fair is model for Indiana