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…
COVID-19 took a 70% bite out of TMK Enterprises’ school frozen food fundraiser business last year, said Scott Cramer, operations manager for the company.
“I abhor the idea, but it must be given an airing,” she said.
Is U.S. citizenship still worth something?
On Jan. 6, as I watched the attack on the U.S. Capitol, I asked myself some of the same questions many others were considering. What role did social media play in inciting the riot?
The Hello Sunshine Bakery, 2610 Lower Huntington Road, in Waynedale had its soft opening last week and this week. Its grand opening is planned for Feb 15. Tentative hours are 7 a.m.-3 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays, but those are subject to change.
This area of the law reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the movie “Fletch.” While Fletch is impersonating a police officer (disclaimer: you should not do that), a teenager asks Fletch if he is going to jail for car theft. Fletch asks: “Why? Did you steal the car?” “I sure did,” says…
“It’s cold out here,” Sorethroat complains. “Why are we under the east stairs of the Capitol building?”
May I just say that I hate my friend Sofia today. She’s in Phoenix, where the expected high is 74.
Feb. 5: PNC Chief Economist Gus Faucher: Modest job growth in January, big drop in unemployment rate
The U.S. economy added 49,000 net jobs in January, close to the consensus expectation of 50,000. This followed job losses in December. Performance was mixed across industries.
We approach a full year since the start of the COVID recession. So, it is timely to assess where the recession has turned out differently than seemed likely at the start. Some of the developments are happy, while others are not.
Man’s best friends are becoming more and more helpful. They have been trained to sniff out bombs and drugs and lost hikers and long-buried bodies.
Davey’s Delicious Bagels has announced that it is moving in February to a storefront in West Central.
“This legacy is at risk,” wrote Campbell MacDonald, principal clarinetist of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and chair of the Philharmonic Players’ Association, last week in a newspaper story. That legacy of the 77-year-old orchestra is now endangered by COVID and the resulting dispute between m…
I noticed in a couple of recent news reports that Indiana has been made safe again for the bald eagle, which is a simple piece of good news worth celebrating in this era riven by an angry partisan divide and political revenge disguised as a plea for unity.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD), one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, founded and headquartered in Fort Wayne, will release fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results after market close Jan. 25.
There will come a day of reckoning.
The essential basis of an economy is trust. As the founding father of economics, Adam Smith noted an economy “. . . can seldom flourish in any state in which there is not a certain degree of confidence in the justice of government.” Our modern world subsists almost wholly on a high degree of…
The “normal” economy of 2019 is our launching pad for the post-pandemic world. We’ll be able to measure changes with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on wages for 725 occupations in each of the 50 states.
Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s last day in office was Jan. 11, but a couple of days before he left he issued a statement that urged Gov. Eric Holcomb to adopt a safe harbor rule he proposed.
In retrospect, 2020 was a banner year for entrepreneurship. Due in part to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, more businesses are being launched than ever before. For example, the third quarter of 2020 saw the most applications for employer identification numbers since the g…
The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted sustained pain and hardship on too many for too long. The effect on our economy, however, is mixed.
I participated in a PBS TV show last week — three General Assembly watchers and a host doing our annual legislative preview session — and it was a little unsettling.
I apologize, but this is the time of year when I must do my annual beating-a-dead-horse ritual of imploring the Indiana General Assembly to go to every-other-year sessions.
There is a special place in my heart for journalists who write about economics. They accept the doubts as well as the dogmatism of economists. Take this passage from The Economist magazine (12/12/20) concerning the aftermath of the stimulus money put into the U.S. economy to counter the effe…
The holidays are an indulgent time, so I spoil myself here with a bit of political economy. By way of background, I think it is now obvious that significant changes to our economy have wreaked havoc with our political coalitions. While this itself isn’t necessarily a bad development, it is s…
It seems that nothing ever changes when it comes to hawking insurance to fill the gaps in Medicare coverage for seniors. The fervent sales pitches, the misinformation, and the incomplete and deceptive information continue to proliferate.
The Upstate Alliance of REALTORS Multiple Listing Service (UPSTAR MLS) released its November 2020 local housing market report Dec. 21. Comparing November’s figures to the same timeframe in 2019, the leading market indicators are as follows:
A Zoom call came through last week from the new kid, 2021. He was hurrying to get going with his year.
Time magazine, demonstrating the legacy media’s continued decline into irrelevance, has deemed 2020 “the worst year ever.”
The year 2020 will go down as a challenging and sometimes heartbreaking year for many of us.
Can it be, is it possible, that 2021 won’t be terrible? The state revenue forecast was released on Dec. 16 to provide a starting point for the Indiana General Assembly to craft a new state budget. Might the coming biennium be OK?
This can be a frantic time between the holidays, hustling to complete projects before the end of the year, and planning for the coming year. And while this is a great time to review your HR policies and employee handbooks, that project often gets put on the back burner. So, with the vigor of…
On a wall of the weight room in my gym at St. Joseph Medical Center downtown is a quote attributed to Mother Teresa that’s been sneaking up on me for the last few months. Many of you probably already know it:
For me, a highlight of 2020 has been chairing the Indiana Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission. The commission was created to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Indiana's ratification of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied on the …
This is the final installment, for now, on Indiana townships. Today’s question is: Could Indiana organize existing township services differently to provide higher-quality benefits for residents and lower costs to taxpayers? Or should township governments be funded more generously with added …
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