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Speedway deserves better

It is obvious that Anthony Schoettle is not a fan of nor well informed about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway [Elements in place to keep IMS under family ownership, May 23]. Tony Hulman bought the Speedway from Eddie Rickenbacker, not Wilbur Shaw. Hulman’s “tax avoiding maneuver” was as legal and ethical as writing-off interest on a home […]

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Art groups deserve fair spot

I was so disappointed to see the exclusion of the many arts organizations that count on the Broad Ripple Art Fair to spread the word about what is going on in Indy [Broad Ripple Art Fair—sans cultural organization booths—booms, IBJ.com, May 26]. It would seem that the Art Center would lend a hand to other […]

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IBJ’s Innovation Issue misses the mark

You have taken years to perfect your publication—putting together columnists and articles on a weekly basis that your readers want and need to read. I look forward to reading my IBJ every weekend. And then for some unknown reason, you throw all of that good work away and put out an issue like this week’s [Innovation […]

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GUY: The only thing we fear is …

Cognitive bias has an outsized effect. It causes humans to take action when no action is indicated. It prompts a healthy person to seek major medical review when a neighbor has a heart attack, and sheriffs to create barely relevant strategies of personal defense.

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EDITORIAL: Race officials can’t let up

It’s important to many inside and outside of racing, and to the Indianapolis economy, that the team in charge not let up in seeking the broad audience the Indianapolis 500 deserves.

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LOPRESTI: Hinkle Fieldhouse innovative when it was built—and today

The arched steel trusses enabled the roof to cover a couple of acres without the need for beams, providing the vast and wide open spaces inside that would give the gazillion visitors to come in future years the sensation they had wandered into something that was part-gymnasium, part-national park.

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JONES: ChaCha was a great idea that ran out of money

I still believe my decade-old vision is sturdy and world-changing, because even the best computers and algorithms are still able to answer only about 60 percent of the random questions asked by on-the-go people, doing real life.

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