Another CDC fan
Thank you for running the [Sept. 3 Forefront] remarks from Sam Odle about the important role that community development corporations play in tackling the challenge of rebuilding our neighborhoods.
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Symphony shrinking from greatness
The recent proposals [Sept. 3 IBJ] by the board of directors and the compliant management of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to “save” it will only lead to its demise if implemented.
The ‘USSR-ADA’
Thank you for [Benner’s Sept. 3] commentary on Lance Armstrong. I could not believe my ears when Travis Tygart of the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced something of the sort of “since Lance Armstrong will not prove himself innocent, we must find him guilty…”
Different conclusion
Studying the same subject, I came to a different conclusion, especially when the whole story is revealed [Kennedy column, Aug. 27].
KENNEDY: Music intrinsic to world-class cities
When I was in city hall in the late 1970s, the goal was to make Indianapolis a “world class” city. That wasn’t just rhetoric used by Mayor Hudnut. It was echoed by the City Committee (now long defunct) and by Lilly Endowment, which generously facilitated the goal.
HETRICK: Lapsed entrepreneur finds higher education a class act
Early signs show that this teacher, this profession and—most important—these students are going to be just fine.
LOU’S VIEWS: Treetop adventure at Eagle Creek Park
The new Go Ape course is an outstanding excuse to revisit Eagle Creek Park, one of the country’s largest municipal parks.
MORRIS: Fox 59 is serious about local news
The announcement was made back in May and IBJ reported on it again in last week’s paper. However, I want to highlight WXIN-TV Channel 59’s expanded news coverage in the 6 p.m. hour, Monday-Friday, which starts airing this week. It’s the latest expansion of news at Fox 59 and the move is significant.
EDITORIAL: Rally to save the symphony
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is in a mess that will be hard to recover from, but it’s not too late for the symphony’s depleted management, the musicians and the community to rally and save one of the city’s top cultural attractions before it’s permanently crippled.
SKARBECK: Are equities really dead? Depends on whom you ask
References to the infamous 1979 Business Week article “The Death of Equities” have resurfaced in the media.
HICKS: Global slowdown makes its way to Wyoming
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently spoke of a slowing world economy at the annual fete of world economists in Jackson Hole, Wyo. His speech was the typical measured prose of someone whose choice of adverbs has the capacity to send markets diving. However, to an experienced listener, two interesting tidbits emerged.
Who believes Lance Armstrong? I do, and many feel the same
Within moments of cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong’s announcement that he would no longer contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s relentless quest to strip him of his seven Tour de France titles, the social network Facebook came alive with “I told-you-he-was-a-cheater” diatribes. I responded thusly: I still believe—and believe in—Lance Armstrong. I may be hopelessly […]
HHGregg’s new push: Selling treadmills alongside TVs
The appliance and electronics retailer is quietly launching a test of furniture and fitness equipment, with rollouts scheduled for 31 of its more than 200 stores.
MAURER: At the sports book with Cousin Eddie
Cousin Eddie is an obstetrician/gynecologist and medical director of one of the largest OBGYN practices in Houston. He also is an author, inventor, songwriter and stock market whiz.
EDITORIAL: Braly ouster overstates failures
Investors heaped criticism on former WellPoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly and called for her ouster in the weeks leading up to her resignation Aug. 28, but her leadership of the health-insurance giant might not be judged so harshly once the smoke clears.
KIM: Why the Libor lie matters to the man on the street
Libor, the London interbank offered rate, certainly sounds like an obscure, technical bit of financial jargon. However, Libor directly affects the pricing of more than $800 trillion in securities and loans.
HICKS: Observing the transformation of unions on Labor Day
In this column, on a sunny Labor Day five years past, I asserted that the American labor movement was dead. Given what has transpired since, it would appear my diagnosis was a bit optimistic.
RACE: Professional project review is an investment in quality
If you want to make the private sector leery of developing in your community, take the certainty out of the process by making it political.
New leadership must tackle debt
The most important issue in this election year is our massive debt and its effect on jobs and the economy.
HENDERSON: If coffee were like gasoline
Today, we’re paying what the market will not get upset over, just like the enormous price of coffee, whose bean prices have also collapsed.