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Brian Payne on the Cultural Trail, promoting equity, fighting systemic racism and leaving CICF
Episode 259
On June 30, Brian Payne will finish a 23-year run as CEO and president of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and president of the Indianapolis …
2 years, 11 months ago
Couple behind Wild Birds Unlimited risked $5.5M to turn golf course into Zionsville nature preserve
Episode 258
As Jim Carpenter tells it, he was “an unemployed bird watcher” in 1981 when he decided to open a feed store in Broad Ripple called Wild Birds Unlimit…
2 years, 11 months ago
Pete The Planner on potential student loan tumult and its wider economic threats
Episode 257
More than 40 million people in America are about to take a big financial hit, and it could have such serious repercussions on the economy that we cou…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why does downtown need a $90M sports arena, in addition to its NBA and NFL venues?
Episode 256
Indianapolis leaders made sports one of the focus points of its downtown economic development strategy as far back as the early 1970s. Today, we have…
2 years, 11 months ago
Indiana becoming garden spot for vital ag innovation, food security
Episode 255
For a century, Indiana’s identity has been informed by the bucolic farms folks can see from the window of an airplane or from the window of their car…
2 years, 11 months ago
The big challenges and costs of being a 17-year-old racer in an IndyCar feeder series
Episode 254
Dan Wheldon, Kyle Kirkwood, J.R. Hildebrand, Jay Howard, Sage Karam, Oliver Askew, Spencer Pigot, and Rinus VeeKay. Beyond the fact that all of these…
3 years ago
Rabbi Dennis Sasso on 275 weddings, 1,000 funerals, 800 b’nai mitzvah over 47 years
Episode 253
In 1977, Rabbi Dennis Sasso and his wife, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, loaded up their car and drove from New York to Indianapolis. As the first prac…
3 years ago
The biggest questions dogging the bills passed by the Indiana Legislature
Episode 252
The 2023 Indiana General Assembly wrapped up about a week ago—specifically, 2:47 a.m. on Friday, April 28—after your state lawmakers hammered out a $…
3 years ago
Pete the Planner on death, divorce and more of the most edgy questions in personal finance
Episode 251
The first episode of the IBJ Podcast was posted on June 4, 2018. This week, we present the 250th episode. As listeners know, the podcast’s only regul…
3 years ago
Joel Kirk on how Indy became a musical incubator for Broadway
Episode 250
Joel Kirk doesn’t have an MBA or what you would consider to be a traditional business background. But he is every inch an entrepreneur and promoter, …
3 years, 1 month ago