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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Saving our way deeper into a hole
A recent article in The Economist predicts a deep recession next year if we Americans abandon our spendthrift
ways and swing back to a savings lifestyle. What other nation, the magazine wonders, would buy enough things
to keep…
Circuit City and HHGregg
How can it be that Circuit City is bankrupt and HHGregg is still going strong? Both companies sell electronics
to consumers, though Gregg also deals in appliances.
Part of the reason may be found in how they treat their sales staffs.
Circuit…
Smoking ban back on the table
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…
A tiny Indiana bank and the bailout
Newton County Loan & Savings bank couldnâ??t be more out of the way â?? or more relevant in this day of
government bailouts.
The thrift is in Goodland, a burg between Lafayette and Chicago, and has all of $7.3 million in…
Bail out Detroit?
Two schools of thought are emerging over the proposed bailout of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
One is that the auto industry is too big to fail. Itâ??s not just because of the manufacturing operations
and all the suppliers…
Whatâ??s next for Daniels?
Mitch Daniels has plenty of reason to feel good about himself these days.
Last week, he won reelection in a landslide after cutting a wake through a change-averse state, and without
going negative on his opponent, Jill Long Thompson.
Daniels also needs…
Another day, another ranking
Small-town newspaper editors know that the more names of people they cram into each issue, the better the
chances someone will pick up the paper.
Now the principle has caught on in a big way with the largest publications â?? and…
Grading racism on a curve
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…
Secrecy and animal testing
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…
After assessors, what’s next?
Indiana voters this week in effect fired most of the remaining township assessors after the Legislature merged
the vast majority of their work into county-level assessor offices earlier this year.
But many of the recommendations from the report on…
Obama, Daniels and Indiana
Change agents Barack Obama and Mitch Daniels won over Hoosiers yesterday, but from different ends of the
political spectrum.
Barack Obama took the state after a campaign in which he promised to increase regulations on business, raise
taxes on…
There’s gotta be a better way
We live in the country that invented the light bulb, put a man on the moon and cracked the human genome,
but weâ??re still standing in line to vote.
Election Day is evolving into Election Month as more people make decisions…
Nuclear war, assessors and voters
Following a nuclear holocaust, itâ??s been said, only cockroaches and township assessors will be left.
Now, assessors might finally meet their match in something more powerful than atomic weapons â?? voters.
The Legislature wiped out a warren of them this year when…
Headhunter: Market not so bad
A corporate recruiter says employers in Indianapolis arenâ??t acting like their counterparts elsewhere in the
country, if headlines are to be believed.
The employment market here has stayed fairly resilient, says Steve Mattei, a partner in Pinnacle Partners
Inc.
Pinnacle specializes in…
Bringing on the generic drugs
Times are tough enough that more people are beginning to switch to generic drugs to save money. Insurers
like Indianapolis-based WellPoint are playing a role, too, by pushing policy holders toward generics.
People also are splitting pills…
Concerns of a state health official
One of the people responsible for ensuring we stay healthy is Dr. Judy Monroe, who directs the Indiana Department
of Health.
So, what keeps someone with a job like hers up at night?
A nightmare scenario is a new virus that quickly…
United Way CEO: merge nonprofits
As the economy slows and money gets scarce, banks arenâ??t the only organizations that should consider merging.
Thatâ??s how United Way of Central Indiana CEO Ellen Annala sees the landscape.
The Indianapolis area has a whopping 16,000 not-for-profits, she says, one for…
Is your job secure?
Waves of layoffs are going to hit the country as banks tighten lending and companies cut costs, BusinessWeek
predicted in an article this week.
Unlike the dot-com and housing busts of recent years, this time just about every industry…