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Our pond was dry. The duck had to swim in my bathtub instead I did not like this, but the duck was happy. It rained, and the pond is full [...]

No one has to tell David Garick there's a job crunch in Ohio. He just has to check his employer's Internet Web site. More than 500,000 people a week score [...]

'97 setbacks leave popular governor with work to do 1997 wasn't George Voinovich's best year. After all, Ohio's governor suffered three major political losses for the first time in memory [...]

Business groups' and labor unions' political clout is at stake as the warring factions have drawn an angry line in the sand over historic workers' compensation reforms contained in state [...]

What might have been - what could be Now if only we had an arena. On the heels of a sound defeat for a plan to build a downtown sports [...]

Business taxes in Ohio are likely to increase as a result of an Ohio Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's school-funding formula as unconstitutional. Business groups also fear the [...]

Lamar Hunt says he's willing to sign a 25-year lease for his Columbus Crew pro soccer team and a possible National Hockey League franchise if voters approve a $277 million [...]

Many of us watched in abject disbelief recently as the 'debate' on whether to federalize baggage security at our nation's airports devolved into the kind of typical political bomb throwing [...]

Youth programs expanding, ice time tight J.D. Kershaw says the explosion of youth hockey in Columbus in the wake of the Blue Jackets' arrival means it's just a matter of [...]

Some say it's the board of titans. Others call it a power board. Whatever the moniker, the Wexner Center Foundation wields a board of trustees other nonprofits can only envy [...]

* Wayne Hanson, financial planner, Steinhaus Financial Group: Nov. 2 * George Bleimes, director of operations, Advanced Programming Resources Inc.: Nov. 3 * Matthew Grossman, president, Axis Group: Nov. 3 [...]

A recent court case proves that for Ohio employers, the road to the courthouse is paved with good intentions. James Sanders worked for United Parcel Service in the Cincinnati area [...]

Graceland Shopping Center's Big Bear Plus store is in the midst of a $1 million upgrade. Syracuse-based Penn Traffic Co., owner of Central, Ohio's Big Bear chain, is reorganizing the [...]

George Karl, the coach of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks who spends his off-seasons in Pittsburgh, has partnered with the owner of the St. Louis Rams and a Columbus, Ohio, sports [...]

* Kay S. Moellenkamp, accounting manager, Equity: Oct. 27 * John Kozlowski, general counsel, Ohio Credit Union League: Oct. 28 * John R. Thomas, partner, Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter: [...]

The day-to-day running of one of Columbus' most visible business law firms is changing hands after 12 years. James E. Davidson will become president and chief executive of Schottenstein Zox [...]

A powerful group of major-league sports executives is reorganizing its Columbus-based indoor basketball center business and is spending millions of dollars to open a chain of public centers from Pittsburgh [...]

Want to one- up your neighbor's new SUV? You could buy your own bus from COTA. The Central Ohio Transit Authority will auction surplus goods, including 16 full-size buses, 11 [...]

In six years of Major League Soccer's existence, the top executive award has gone to Columbus Crew head honchos one-third of the time. Former Crew President and General Manager Jamey [...]

Don't be surprised to read in the Wall Street Journal this month a story about Columbus trying to reap the benefits of potential growth in leisure travel to cities that [...]

* Tami Longaberger, CEO, Longaberger Co.: Oct. 20 * Beau Stanley, director of investments, Shore Morgan Financial Advisors: Oct. 20 * Ken Wilson, chief estimator, Continental Building Systems: Oct. 20 [...]

Breads of the World LLC, the area's franchisee of Panera Bread restaurants, plans to turn 350 pounds of flour into 6,000 bagels in the wee hours of Oct. 21. The [...]

Under normal circumstances, officials would be unqualifiedly ecstatic about five major sporting events converging in Columbus the weekend of Oct. 19. After all, Franklin County's 20,000 hotel rooms are virtually [...]

Appeals courts in Ohio are usually loathe to overturn jury verdicts, but that's exactly what the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did recently in a case involving an employee [...]

Polaris Fashion Place is rolling out its pitch as anew and exciting - if not 'fresh' - place for Central Ohioans to shop. The first billboard ad created for Glimcher [...]

* Todd Alexander, president, Continental Building Systems: Oct. 13 * Gary Moneysmith, general manager, Columbus office, Digiknow LLC: Oct. 13 * Keith Vesper, vice president, mission and ministry, OhioHealth: Oct. [...]

Director Andy Geiger was at an Ohio State University Athletics Department retreat a couple of years ago when the discussion turned to the business side of sports -- and the [...]

Those of us all worked up about the threat of anthrax, smallpox or plague in a bioterrorism attack now have something else to worry about: plant terrorism. U.S. crops are [...]

Anxious MacLean makes no apologies for setting high goals for team, organization Make no mistake: Doug MacLean is a fierce competitor. So much so that the president and general manager [...]

Dwight Smith's information technology consulting firm has grown from five employees and $2 million in revenue in 1992 to $27 million in revenue with 105 workers nowadays. And Smith largely [...]

It's the kind of press Limited Inc. loves. The Motley Fool investment Internet site on Sept. 25 identified Limited as one of six on sale stocks in the bear market. [...]

Grant Medical Center is tuning up for its Oct. 8 television debut by holding a blood drive. Donors can give until it hurts until 3:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Grant's [...]

A 5-year-old Columbus company that conducts background checks on job candidates thinks American companies are examining references more earnestly. Since Sept. 11, Secure Check Inc. has seen a 20 percent [...]

There was a time early in the administration of Gov. George V. Voinovich when the newly elected governor apparently thought he didn't need a legislative body to get things done. [...]

Despite intensive public scrutiny and controversy over Franklin University's curriculum changes,. the school has awarded a five-year contract to embattled President Paul Otte. The deal was set in motion at [...]

Jeff Stein, managing director for KeyCorp's Cleveland-based McDonald Investments, found a silver lining for retail stocks in a jittery American economy. Stein is a retail analyst who follows companies like [...]

Lori M. Steiner only had to check the books to see if Dominion Homes Inc.'s partnership with the Columbus Blue Jackets paid off for the Dublin homebuilder this year. 'It [...]

There are few words more tedious than 'reapportionment,' but that's the pitiable prose for a largely ignored yet major realignment of political power that occurs in Ohio and other states [...]

* Ed Bosak, vice president, ASCInet: Sept. 30 * Bryan Venesy, partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP: Sept. 30 * Catherine Adams, partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP: Oct. 1 [...]

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the United States' subsequent march toward a war on global terrorism haven't stymied retailers' plans to be ready for the opening of the 1.5 [...]

Key congressional Democrats are dropping their opposition to a capital gains tax cut in light of Sept. 11's terrorist attacks and the stock market plunge that followed, U.S. Rep. Pat [...]

The New Albany-based Super Truck Racing Association of North America is on the verge of signing its first sanctioning agreement with an established racing body that oversees LeMans and TransAm [...]

Statistics from Grubb & Ellis and NAI Welsh Cos. help put the acts of terrorism at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 into a different perspective for Central Ohioans. [...]

* Michael R. Rankin, of counsel, Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP: Sept. 22 * Dann Goodson, project manager, Equity: Sept. 23 * Greg Ray, vice president, Continental Building Systems: Sept. [...]

A service technician at Graham Ford in Columbus has become the planet's first man in his middleweight division to bench press more than 700 pounds. George Halbert, 30, was the [...]

Ron Keller, whose agency oversees the Ohio Statehouse, was on his way to his weekly meeting with staffers Sept. 11 when he heard an airplane had crashed into one of [...]

Columbus Crew head coach Greg Andrulis was buckled into his passenger seat as the United Airlines jet lifted off the runway in Tampa bound for Denver and the Major League [...]