Recession = Rehab, Reuse, Renew

While some worry, scurry or otherwise run away during a recession, Pearl Mort views it as high tide. “Anytime there’s a recession, we do best because the price of land goes down, the prices for houses go down. We can buy more houses for rent. At these times, prices go down. This is a bad […]

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Meet the Global Green Pals

Just a few weeks past Christmas, landfills are probably filling up with plastic boxes, wrapping paper, containers and parts from discarded and forgotten toys. Malini Goel doesn’t believe that will happen with her dolls, the Global Green Pals, designed with environmentally safe materials—along with a message. “The whole idea is conveying a message to the

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Hitting the Ice

Hockey isn’t a major blip on the radar of Northwest Indiana sports fans. But given the less than stellar seasons exhibited thus far by the NFL’s Chicago Bears and NBA’s Chicago Bulls—and spring training for the Cubs and White Sox still a few weeks away—fans might want to reconsider. According to executives with Chicago’s two

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Entrepreneurial Excellence

Being unafraid of failure is the common thread among the 13 recipients of the 15th Annual Entrepreneurship “E-Day” Excellence Awards presented by the Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center. Each knows the region and its character, traits guest speaker Penny Lewandowski says are vital for growing businesses. “Talking about community is my mantra,” says Lewandowski,

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