ALDI planned to welcome back shoppers to its renovated Fort Wayne store when it reopened at 9 a.m. May 6. The store, at 7325 S. Anthony Blvd., is part of an ongoing initiative to remodel and expand existing ALDI stores nationwide. The Fort Wayne store will be open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. daily.
Banza, the company that makes chickpea pasta, pizza, rice and mac & cheese, is coming to Fort Wayne’s Meijer stores. Starting this week, Banza Pizza will be available in select Meijer stores throughout the state.
One feature of the past two or three decades is what economists call the polarization of labor markets. This is a fancy way of saying that we are seeing growth in high- and low-wage jobs, but a decline in middle-wage work. By any definition, the U.S. still has a large middle class, but three…
The advance estimate of the seasonally adjusted trade deficit in goods widened to $90.6 billion in March from $87.1 billion in February, which was revised down from $88.0 billion in the monthly report on goods and services trade; it had been $86.7 in the prior advance estimate.
One of my favorite jokes involves an election in a mythical town in which there are 1,000 Christian voters and 250 Jewish voters. There is an election for mayor featuring a Christian candidate and a Jewish candidate, who get, respectively, 1,000 votes and 250 votes.
Gross assessed value may be the best indicator of economic progress for a neighborhood, city, county or state.
During the time of remote work, the amount of email and text message traffic has exploded. While some of this email traffic is certainly necessary to complete projects, many of it replaces the usual face-to-face conversations that we have with co-workers and friends. This leads to many insta…
Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell again the week ending April 17, and were at their lowest level since before the pandemic.
We are now a year past the darkest days of the COVID recession. As the economy slowly begins to recover, we should recognize that Indiana has still lost six years of job creation. Total employment in Indiana is back at April 2015 levels, and there are only 1,500 more people working than we h…
When did it all start? Who can say? Not I.
Tick, tick, tick.
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The U.S. recovery is accelerating after the winter slowdown.
Retail sales were up 10% from February to March. Stimulus payments, vaccinations, and better weather all contributed to the surge in spending.
Round 2 of COVID-19 relief funds have been allocated and billions have been sent out already. Did you get $1,400 for each person in your household? Unless you had less than $80,000 in income ($160,000 for a couple), you didn’t see those checks.
During my tenure as president of one of the nonprofit boards I served on, there was a dispute between board members and the executive director over something the director proposed to do.
The decade following the Great Recession was a challenging one for economists who study the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
It’s commencement season, and this year’s grads are headed into a competitive employment environment. One of the factors that will determine their destiny is social media. What they do — and don’t do — can mean the difference between finding an ideal job, and finding themselves with limited …
King Gyros installed a Helping Hands Food Pantry at its 814 Goshen Ave., Fort Wayne, location.
I’ve been asked (by two readers) to write about two questions. This flood of interest is overwhelming. Thus, with much humility, I offer the following opinions:
None of my best friends is Black.
In the coming months, the U.S. economy will appear as if it is returning to normal. That won’t really be the case, but the conversation about the economy will shift from stabilizing and relief to long-term growth. Midwesterners, particularly Hoosiers, ought to be very nervous about the next …
On March 12, President Joe Biden signed into law another stimulus bill to address the enormous damage done to our economy through COVID-19. There are principled arguments for and against most details of the $1.9 trillion bill. I feel Congress could’ve passed a much smaller bill, maybe half t…
Salvatori’s opened its 717 W. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne, location this week.
As the number of vaccinations increases, many businesses are starting to ask “is it time to bring the whole workforce back?”
You probably know what you think about murder, rape, arson and all sorts of other abhorrent crimes. But how do you feel about jaywalking and littering?
This week marks the beginning of our 17th year of publishing The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly (GFWBW), and the one-year anniversary of when the uncertainty ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic became a reality. WHAT a year it has been for all of us in our local business community!
“The Indiana General Assembly acts on behalf of the people of Indiana,” State Senator Hempstead Helpful proclaimed.
One day a colleague, whose intellect I had admired up to that point, confessed that she had some conservative instincts when it came to politics.
It is hard to believe that our community has lived with COVID-19 for one year. One year of quarantining, masking and social distancing. One year of e-learning, meeting virtually and, for many, working from home. In that time, many of us have adapted to a new way of living, working and engagi…
Spring is coming and that means — food trucks!
Spring must be near. The clocks will need to be changed. Waterfowl fly northward across the sky. The creek behind the house travels fast and full from the runoff of developments upstream. Tiny green shoots appear in the garden
I was recently speaking with a social media manager about some of the challenges she and her peers face. A central theme was the persistence of the job. In other words, while there's nothing especially difficult about the work, there are several items that require nearly constant attention: …
The Next Level Teacher Compensation Commission released their report in mid-December. All Hoosiers should be interested in what it did and did not say about teacher pay, along with recommendations they offered. I begin with some stark observations about education finance.
Beer Barrel Pizza & Grill plans to open late this summer in Fort Wayne’s Jefferson Pointe.
The Indiana General Assembly, which gets its share of bruises, is getting close to doing something very beneficial for a some very sick children, their parents and their siblings.
I will defend myself.
A fire described as “small” that occurred Feb. 18 at Granite City Food & Brewery, 3809 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne, caused the business to close for a few days.
It is performance evaluation season for many companies which seems like a good reminder to ask a critical question — are you doing them right or just being nice?
Poverty is a human issue with many dimensions including race, gender, occupation and geography. Its elimination is also multi-dimensional.
Editor’s note: House Bill 1005 has been referred by the Senate to the Committee on Education and Career Development.
Profound apologies to my brother.
In recent months, the Northeast Indiana Small Business Development Center (NEI-SBDC) has been connecting its clients that have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 virus with area marketing professionals, providing no-cost assistance to help business owners get their companies back on…
Not only is variety the spice of life, but it also holds a lot of value for small businesses. Hiring a diverse workforce — a staff that’s inclusive of people from different cultures, capabilities, religions, ages, educational backgrounds, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and person…
On April 27, a lawsuit was filed in Marion County Circuit Court in which Gov. Eric Holcomb is suing Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Brady, Speaker of the House of Representatives Todd Huston and the Indiana General Assembly as a whole over its passing of House Enrolled Act 1123 that gives the body the ability to call special sessions.
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