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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Q&A: What you need to know about the CDC’s new mask guidance
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Carmel distiller turns hand sanitizer pivot into a community fundraising platform
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Lebanon considering creating $13.7M in trails, green space for business park
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Local senior-living complex more than doubles assisted-living units in $5M expansion
When to blow the whistle
Whistleblowers are learning the hard way that they wonâ??t necessarily get their jobs back by exposing problems.
The latest such case involved a former banker who saw his case rejected by an appeals court. The court
ruled that his…
Indiana’s entrepreneurial hotspots
If youâ??re an entrepreneur, or dream of one day becoming one, which place in the state offers the best
opportunity?
Are you a fan of fast-growing exurbs like Fishers? If youâ??re into medical startups, is the best spot on
the downtown…
Ball State tosses IU a grenade
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…
Friedman’s influence on Indy
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…
Hummer buyers are back
Gas prices have been up for quite a while now, so are buyers of the H2 Hummer, the king of sport-utility
vehicles, pulling back?
Not as much as one might think, says Corey Lockhart, Hummer general manager at Lockhart Hummer in…
Time for animal-rights legislation?
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…
Updating disabilities regulations
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…
Schellinger looks back
The Democratic primary race between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and winner Barack Obama attracted
so much attention that the Indiana governorâ??s race got short shrift â?? and the governorâ??s race still isnâ??t
getting the respect it deserves.
Thatâ??s how Jim Schellinger…
Fist-bumping the handshake
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…
The ‘vicious cycle’ at newspapers
A new study shows newspapers continue to lose advertising dollars and circulation to the Internet, and theyâ??re
slicing ever deeper into newsroom budgets to try to stay in the black.
Stories are shorter and devote less attention to international…
Beware of buying ‘flood’ cars
More than a month has passed since the June 7 floods inundated much of southern Indiana, plenty of time
for unsuspecting consumers to buy once-soggy vehicles.
The flooding was a drop in the bucket compared to what hit New Orleans and…
Did airport decision split the baby?
As expected, the airport authority has opted to put Weir Cooksâ?? name on a major street leading to the new
terminal as well as the terminal itself.
Would the airportâ??s brand equity have been eroded had the board renamed…
Living with feisty inflation
You might have seen the startling news this morning about inflation. The cost of living exploded by 1.1
percent in June, which is a sobering annual rate above 13 percent.
One of the Indianapolis areaâ??s leading financial planners says…
IUPUI apologizes to janitor
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,…
Paddlefish caviar goes toxic
Commercial fishing outfits are taking tons of caviar from paddlefish in the Ohio River because severe restrictions
on fishing for Russian sturgeon in the Caspian Sea have depleted the supply of the eggs.
But thereâ??s a problem: Indiana along with…
Kempton is red-hot
Ever heard of Kempton? Itâ??s a burg between Indianapolis and Kokomo that just happens to be the second-fastest
growing town in the state.
Kemptonâ??s population last year was 716, an increase of 27 percent in just one year, according to an…
Incentives as a way of life
Competition for jobs and investment has become so fierce that companies with a good growth plan are firmly
in the driverâ??s seat.
A local example is Bowen Engineering Corp., which is asking for $290,000 in incentives from Indianapolis to
move its…
Match your wits with an Indian child
Bob Compton has taken a few arrows in the back since he began screening the film he funded, â??2 Million
Minutes,â?? last fall.
Compton, who was a venture capitalist at CID Equity Partners before striking out on his own to bankroll…