LOU’S VIEWS: Beyond the Fringe
Just going to Indy Fringe makes you a part
of it. It’s difficult to be a passive observer during the 10-day event, which ends Sunday.
Opinion
Articles
BENNER: Hoosier Hysteria now wears pads and cleats
Although I am a full-blooded Hoosier with basketball as part of my DNA, football—and football season—has become
the part of the sports calendar I look forward to most.
ALTOM: Do I need a cell phone that’s hardy or handy?
It’s time to change my cell phone, and that’s causing me a big problem. I have conflicting needs, and like everybody
else in the business world, I can’t seem to reconcile them.
SKARBECK: Investors may miss mark by switching to bonds
It seems more likely that bond investors today are making the same mistake stock investors made back at the peak of the stock-market bubble.
BENNER: Bird’s trust goes unrewarded in new debacle
Face it, Larry; you messed up. You trusted a 19-year-old with a questionable past.
HETRICK: How to make our recession last forever
Today’s and tomorrow’s jobs are increasingly dependent upon more and better education
HICKS: Good reads on America’s automobile industry
If you’d like to satiate your interest in the domestic automobile market, may I recommend three fine books?
LOU’S VIEWS: Dancing to the classics
This week, Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre uses American lit as a launch pad; plus: books by local authors.
DINING: Chancy upgrade at IUPUI eatery
Chancellor's has high aspirations, with a seasonal, locally sourced menu clearly designed to appeal more to diners on
an expense account than college students on a budget.
Mentor knew how to keep his head
In reference to Mickey Maurer’s column in the Aug. 9 edition, Mickey and I, along with probably many others, had the
same mentor, Gene Glick.
Coaches, mentors often confused
[Mickey Maurer] really did a great job in [his Aug. 9 column,] “Even CEOs need mentors.” I agree that having
a mentor, or having someone to coach you, is valuable.
GM deal promising for local automaker
Now that Bright Automotive has announced a strategic partnership [with] General Motors, we think IBJ should reconsider
the title it gave a recent article about the company (Aug 2, “Losing power?”). We’d suggest “Powering
up!”
Attendance figures were inconsistent
I was disappointed in the lack of fair and accurate reporting in Kathleen McLaughlin’s article, “Missing the
action: Museums struggle to capture foot traffic from busy Central Canal,” which was published in the Aug. 16 edition.
LOUGHREY: Hoosier leaders can fight global poverty
Our world is quite different from the one President Truman
and George Marshall faced in 1947. But the strategy for recovery and broad-based development should be built on a similar
foundation of public- and private-sector collaboration.
MARCUS: Metrics no substitute for management
Most companies select from a work force that has a mixed quality of education. Instead of using this diversity as an asset, management today tries to impose ‘behavioral metrics’ on its workers independent of their individual strengths.
MAURER: If it feels right, take the leap
To create a disciplined investment philosophy, I evolved “The Ten Essential Principles of Entrepreneurship You Didn’t
Learn in School”—at least I didn’t learn them in school. Over the course of 10 columns, I will feature each
of these essential principles. This is the fourth installment.
EDITORIAL: GM dispute deserves vote
It’s puzzling to us that leaders of the United
Auto Workers Local 23 are against members even casting a vote on the proposed takeover of GM’s Indianapolis metal-stamping plant by Illinois-based J.D.
Norman Industries.
HAUKE: Research, not gut, should drive market decisions
The greatest investors I know all use time-tested principles and apply them rigorously in their activities.
HICKS: Expectations can’t erase sluggish recovery
While the economy continues to recover, the pace is agonizingly slow. The reasons for this are becoming clear.
BENNER: You can help save the lives of young Hoosiers
Feleica Locklear-Stewart’s attention. And she is on
a mission to make sure we do more, not just for athletes, but for all our young.