Americans have suddenly gotten serious again about saving money.
In April last year, we saved absolutely nothing; by May this year the rate had shot to nearly 7 percent,
the highest in more than a decade, and some economists…
Just when one hopes racial stereotypes are in retreat, along comes another study suggesting otherwise.
Now weâ??re told that black CEOs with â??baby facesâ?? fare better than black CEOs with more “mature”-looking faces
when it comes to results at…
Auto auction veteran Mike Hockett couldnâ??t have been happy yesterday about news that one of his sons, Scott
Hockett, has signed a document saying he will plead guilty to charges of federal bank fraud.
A few years earlier, another of…
This morning, the Supreme Court said in another of its 5-4 decisions that the federal government has authority
to regulate occasional instances of profanity on broadcast television and radio, called â??fleeting expletives.â??
But the high court also ordered a…
More bars in the state are allowing minors â?? people under age 21 â?? with the proviso that parents are there,
too. State law also stipulates a barrier separating bars and family dining areas.
Supporters of the trend say…
Now that smokers are mostly banished to the outdoors, thereâ??s a new work place pariah â?? those who show up
coughing, sneezing and otherwise obviously sick.
In the not-so-recent past, failing to make it to work while under the weather could be…
Smoking in public places is in retreat across the country, and now Charlie Brown, the state representative
from Gary, wants to ban it in bars, casinos and other enclosed places in Indiana.
Brown plans to introduce a bill during…
An Indiana University committee made the right call yesterday when it recommended leaving the name of a segregationist
on an athletics facility, says a Ball State University historian.
John Mathew Glen says the committee appropriately recognized contributions of former judge and…
One of the most secretive companies in town has made its first public announcement in a long time.
Harlan Sprague Dawley, which is best known for supplying custom-designed laboratory rats for research, has
reorganized its various units under a…
A new report says the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider, and that the gap is biggest
in the United States.
The problem, of course, isnâ??t new. Broadly speaking, the greater oneâ??s education and skills,…
Yet another poll shows the contest between John McCain and Barack Obama as too close to call in Indiana.
The WISH-TV Channel 13 survey has each with 46 percent of likely voters.
With margins like this, the election could…
The ongoing crime wave in Indianapolis has resulted in a surge in gun sales, WXIN-TV Channel 59 reports.
With each big crime comes another spurt in purchases.
Indianapolis police say applications for first-time permits in July were up 15 percent…
A funeral director is planning a â??greenâ?? cemetery west of Bloomington, where plots will be identified
by
small field stones tied to global-positioning coordinates rather than by traditional headstones.
Nathan Butlerâ??s Evergreen Forest Cemetery will look more like a natural landscape…
Just about every young, college-educated Midwesterner has given up hope and moved to the South or West, right?
A story that appeared in IBJ over the weekend suggests otherwise.
The Indianapolis area leads nearly all other large Midwestern cities…
Three Ball State University economists have gone public in recent weeks with their distaste for corporate social responsibility as it’s practiced these days. Philip Coelho and James McClure argued in a letter to the editor in The Herald-Times of Bloomington that…
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…
California voters are being asked this fall to vote on an initiative that would do away with tiny cages
for egg-laying hens and other staples of corporate agriculture.
The rights bill for farm animals is the most sweeping in…
Eighteen years have passed since the Americans with Disabilities Act opened doors for people who hadnâ??t been
able to participate in much of American society â?? and brought a corresponding flood of construction costs
and lawsuits.
Now the Justice Department is…
The handshake â?? a meet-and-greet fixture since medieval folks developed the gesture to show they werenâ??t armed
â?? is beginning to be replaced in some circumstances by the fist bump.
Lightly tapping fists has been a staple of athletes…
How did we get to the point where someone can be accused of racial harassment for reading a scholarly book
about the Ku Klux Klan â?? a book in which the good guys, Notre Dame students, whip the bad guys,…
