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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
Marsh Supermarkets directors
Marsh Supermarkets is making some awfully pointed claims in its lawsuit against the company’s former CEO, Don Marsh.
As IBJ reporter Cory Schouten first reported, Don Marsh is accused of taking expensive trips around the world, charging the company…
Indiana not so corrupt?
In terms of political corruption, Indiana looks downright pristine compared to many other states, a recent Chicago Tribune story says.
Louisiana takes the cake with a per-capita corruption rate twice that of the rate in Illinois. Our neighbor to…
Wagoner, GM and CEOs
President Obama has pushed aside General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to hasten a turnaround of the once-proud carmaker, a decision that would have been unthinkable had GM continued making cars consumers wanted to buy.
General Motors has long been criticized…
Louisville’s guerrilla marketing
Louisville is probably getting a lot more mileage out of Indianapolis’ turning down its plan to flash promotional images on buildings than it would have had the media never latched onto the story.
That how Ron Gifford sees it…
Indiana’s place in a global currency
China has renewed a call for the world to create a global currency.
If such a currency were to emerge, it would be a shot in the arm to Indiana’s manufacturing base, says Purdue University economist Kanda Naknoi.
China’s central…
Notre Dame’s decision on Obama
Eleven years have passed since University of Notre Dame students embarrassed the university by complaining that alum and then-Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan was too small of a fish to speak at their commencement.
Now, the university might be on…
Basketball pools as illegal sport
The NCAA basketball tournament is upon us, and with it, myriad pools.
In that light, the Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program, a state-funded program to prevent and treat addictions, issued a release today noting that sports betting has increased in the…
Buick better than Lexus?
Some years ago, people began dropping the phrase “the Cadillac of the [fill in the blank]” to describe the very best, and when they did, they sometimes substituted Lexus for Cadillac.
ChaCha’s future
Popular search engine company ChaCha Search said yesterday that it had raised another round of funding — and laid off 25 workers.
So, the economy is taking a toll on ChaCha revenue even while investors continue to believe the…
Hard lessons learned
Financial planning offices can be good places to pick up on societal trends, and Juli Erhart-Graves thinks she’s onto one.
People of her generation—Erhart-Graves is 39—are experiencing a sobering reality check about investing and the economy.
Erhart-Graves, a partner with longtime financial…
Brazen state legislators
Former Nuvo editor and columnist Harrison Ullman has been dead nearly nine years, but his axiom that no worse legislature exists than the one on Capitol Avenue seems particularly apt during this term.
One reason is the extraordinary resistance…
Men’s and women’s earnings
It’s old news that men earn more than women and that more women than men graduate from college. What it means is another matter.
To that end, the Indiana Business Research Center has published a study showing that men…
Audacious young investors
There’s something comforting about 30-somethings who have enough hope in the future to try something audacious. As IBJ reporter Peter Schnitzler wrote this week, 15 people in their 30s are raising a $1 million venture fund in Indianapolis.
This…
Will health care IT drop the ball?
Indianapolis finds itself smack in the middle of a big national trend, thanks to President Obama’s stimulus package.
The stimulus allocates $31 billion to help doctors wire their offices to send information digitally, with the goal of improving health care and…
Making up for lost decades
Just four more years and Indiana will celebrate its 40th anniversary of peak economic performance, at least in modern times.
As Morton Marcus points out in a column in this week’s IBJ, Hoosiers earned 2.53 percent of average national…
Ban Barbie in Indiana?
Tired of the economy and stimulus packages? Let’s end the week with Barbie.
Not only is she turning 50, but now a West Virginia legislator wants to ban the doll and others like it because he feels they promote…
Obama’s mortgage plan
Barack Obama’s $75 million plan to stop the carnage in the housing industry aims to help 9 million homeowners refinance mortgages or restructure loans in order to lower payments.
As Obama and Congress hammer out a bailout, to what…
Signs, everywhere Big 10 signs
If you haven’t heard by other means, perhaps you’ll learn about the upcoming Big 10 basketball tournaments at Conseco Fieldhouse from the street signs downtown.
The tournament, which runs tomorrow through Sunday for the women, and then the following Thursday through…