Tag Archives: business

Gutted Hate Crimes Bill Faces Uncertain Future

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:42 — 13.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBusinesses and community leaders spoke out against the latest version of Indiana’s proposed hate crimes bill, after an amendment in the state senate deleted two-thirds of the proposed legislation. That amendment gutted protections for race, religion, age, sexual orientation and gender identity, among others. Indiana sits on …

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Standing Room Only – State of the City Address

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 135.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington Mayor John Hamilton gave his state of the city address on Thursday, February 21. Hamilton is a first-term incumbent Democrat, running for re-election this May, against Monroe County Commissioner Amanda Barge. Hamilton gave his third state of the city address, live from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. On …

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Interchange – Freedom to Exit (Original Air Date: January 23, 2018)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:04 — 43.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is, rather mischievously, “Snowflakes and Sunshine,” from the Ornette Coleman Trio, live in Stockholm in 1965…they got there before the neoliberal economists. Last week’s show with Rob Larson on the Intellectual opportunism of libertarians who sing holy praise to Capitalism pointed out the ways in …

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Interchange – Freedom to Exit: The Libertarian Use of Market Ideology

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:59 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss the ideology of market egalitarianism and versions of libertarianism from the Levellers in 17th century England through Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” and Tom Paine’s Rights of Man and on to Lincoln’s political argument to poor whites that wage labor was slave labor and a …

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Jury Selection Started for 2009 Little Nashville Opry House Arson

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:35 — 1.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJury selection started today in the trial of the former manager of the Little Nashville Opry House, which burned down in 2009. James Bowyer has been charged with arson in the case. He was the business and personal partner of Esther Hamilton who, with her late husband, …

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IU Trustees Encouraging Development of Women and Minority Owned Businesses

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:08 — 2.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast Thursday, during a board meeting at Indiana University East in Richmond, IU trustees talked about the contracts awarded by the school to businesses owned by minorities, women, and veterans. Governor Mike Pence set diversity targets for all state purchasing from the Indiana government. According to trustee …

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Business Outlook Panel Finishes Indiana Tour in Richmond, Expect Economy Growth in Next Year

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:40 — 3.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 42 annual tour of the business outlook panel wound up its final presentation yesterday in Richmond, Indiana. The panel is an annual activity of Kelly School of Business. A group of economists and financial experts who get together each year on October to understand the latest …

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Eight Medical Corp. relocates offices to Bloomington

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:25 — 1.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEight Medical Corporation has relocated its offices from St. Paul, Minnesota to Bloomington. The company is a medical device distributor. Its main device called the Recirculator Eight Point Zero, used to treat cavities. Dana Palazzo, project manager for Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, says quality of life was …

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Latest Study Finds Indiana Manufacturing Industry Strong and Growing

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:59 — 918.6KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEarlier this month, the certified public accounting firm Katz, Sapper & Miller LLP released the results of their seventh annual Indiana manufacturing survey. The statewide study of employers in Indiana’s largest industry shows growth in Hoosier manufacturing. According to the survey, nearly 80 percent of respondents over …

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