BENNER: Carving up the Big Ten … and other hot topics
Of this, that and the other as the lazy, hazy, not-so-crazy days of summer begin to wind down.
Opinion
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MORRIS: Be healthy, wealthy and wise
We’ve had a wellness program
at IBJ for seven years. However, it became clear to me recently that we have only been scratching the surface with
what should be a top priority.
EDITORIAL: City needs to keep momentum from utilities deal
We’re happy to see that partisanship didn’t sink Mayor Greg Ballard’s plan to sell Indianapolis’
water and sewer utilities to Citizens Energy Group. Now city leaders need to make sure they spend the money wisely.
HAUKE: Growth of government takes toll on stock returns
The unprecedented size of government in America matters to anyone who is concerned about wealth creation in this country.
HICKS: Twenty years later, the impact of Desert Storm
Wartime familiarity should make us more tolerant of our differences and care more for one another’s children.
LOU’S VIEWS: ‘A Funny Thing’ happening at Athenaeum
In most productions of the raucous musical comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the lead
character, Pseudolus, is a just-this-side-of desperate middle-age guy with an overactive libido who could break out in a major
sweat at any moment.
DINING: Family-owned Shebella’s defies expectations
I’m happy to report that the new, locally owned Shebella’s exceeds pizza buffet
expectations and, with some of the items we sampled, exceeds even those of traditional pizza joints and sub shops.
BENNER: ‘Empty’ Brickyard still pulls a pretty good crowd
We need to provide some perspective. If Brickyard 400 attendance was, as estimated, somewhere between 130,000 and
150,000, that still makes it the second-largest single-day sporting event in the world and represents a healthy influx of
cash, much of it coming from elsewhere, spent in the area over the weekend.
SURF THIS: Start benefiting from a social media platform
Seems like almost every day a new social media platform is born. If you added them all up, you would easily be in the hundreds.
Obviously, all of them are too much for all of us to pay much attention to, but there are a few you should not only know about,
but participate in.
ALTOM: Bar-coding could help your business for as little as $200
Years ago, when technology was just starting to classify and count all of us, we worried we’d become merely numbers.
Now we may not even be readable numbers, but just ink on a bar code. And that’s a good thing, as it turns out.
Poverty doesn’t explain shooting
This problem [at Black Expo] is nothing new; it has a long history of violence and disrespect for the community we all live
in.
Move Black Expo to fairgrounds
As a downtown resident of over 30 years I feel that it is a privilege to use the facilities that we as a city have created
downtown. Black Expo has violated that privilege.
Don’t make hires too quickly
Mickey Maurer’s [July 12 column offering] advice on exercising care in hiring is well-taken. Busy people often decide
to hire too quickly and to correct the resulting error too slowly.
WEIGAND: Reinvesting in neighborhoods is essential
Our city is about to engage in a high-stakes gamble to avert a death spiral—or
accelerate it and make it much more of a certainty.
MARCUS: Economy as diverse as pierogi in Whiting
The simple fact is that we are having a recession on top of the continuing restructuring of the economy that has been
going on since the 1980s.
SKARBECK: Financial overhaul law leaves much uncertainty
The public, to no surprise, is skeptical that the new regulations will succeed. A Bloomberg poll shows nearly four out of five Americans have little confidence the measures will prevent a crisis.
HICKS: What we can learn from forecasting blunders
It begs the question, just what should economists be expected to know and how should we explain it?
MAURER: Low barriers to entry breed business competition
Based primarily upon hard lessons learned, I developed “The Ten Essential Principles of Entrepreneurship that You Didn’t Learn in School”—at least I didn’t learn them in school. This is Lesson 2.
EDITORIAL: Timid talk won’t stop violence during Indiana Black Expo
The violence that sometimes erupts on the streets of downtown during Summer Celebration’s final weekend can no
longer be tolerated.
LOU’S VIEWS: Record-breaking artist offers the vinyl word on music stars
Seen from a distance, Lobyn Hamilton’s work might seem like something you’d find in a music shop—simple,
faithful re-creations of familiar portraits of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Get a little closer, though, and the
medium becomes part of the message.