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State colleges face $150M in cuts as tax revenues fall

December 4, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Indiana Gov. Daniels calls for cuts with announcement that tax collections for November were $144 million below forecast.
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Constantino's and City Market reach settlement

December 4, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
City Market has agreed to forgive Constantino's $27,000 in unpaid rent if the meat and produce stand shuts down by Dec. 24.
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Ohio balks at Fair Finance's latest effort to register securities

December 4, 2009
Greg Andrews
Ohio securities regulators have asked for a mountain of additional information from Tim Durham's Fair Finance Co. that they say they would have to evaluate before deciding whether to allow the company to resume the sale of investment certificates.
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Tennis officials set to reveal tournament buyer

December 4, 2009
Anthony Schoettle
Sources told IBJ last week that the U.S. Tennis Association Southern Section was in serious negotiations to buy the event and move it to Atlanta.
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Indiana University launches $10M seed fund

December 4, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
The Innovate Indiana Fund will invest $5 million over the next five years to commercialize IU technologies and another $5 million to help IU-affiliated startups get off the ground.
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Cookware plant closing in Fort Wayne, idling 190 workers

December 4, 2009
Fort Wayne-based Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc. has notified state officials that it will close its “small wares” plant there and let go 190 employees.
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Ivy Tech offers fast degree for at-risk students

December 4, 2009
Associated Press
Ivy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate's degree in just 10 months instead of two years.
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Hansen & Horn insolvent, receivership next step for builder

December 3, 2009
Scott Olson
The president of Hansen & Horn Group Inc. admitted in court Thursday that the troubled home builder is insolvent and agreed to have a receiver appointed to operate the company.
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ExactTarget lands another $75M in funding

December 3, 2009
Chris O'Malley
E-mail marketing provider ExactTarget has in a short span landed what may be a record amount of venture funding for a private company here—$75 million since October.  And that’s on top of the $69.9 million it received in May from three venture firms on the coasts.
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General Growth's refinancing plan could thwart Simon

December 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest shopping mall operator, said lenders have agreed to restructure about $9.7 billion in debt. The agreements could put a damper on the acquisition aspirations of rival Simon Property Group Inc.
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Hoosiers 'waste' $2.5B a year on health care, group says

December 3, 2009
J.K. Wall
Analysis of Medicare data finds that Indiana hospitals and doctors rack up higher costs to treat the same conditions as the nation's model markets.
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State Museum to close on most Mondays

December 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The museum has been facing tight budgets and dropping attendance.
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Ivy Tech names new academic programs chief

December 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Mary Ostrye, 52, will have oversight of 150 different academic programs at Ivy Tech's 23 campuses around the state.
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Visions for ailing City Market include arts venue, YMCA

December 3, 2009
Riley Area Development Corp. is pitching the idea of building a performing arts center in the City Market. The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, meanwhile, is in talks with the city about building a full-service fitness center on the site.
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Rare sacred art exhibition boosts museum attendance

December 2, 2009
Associated Press
"Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art is drawing visitors from around the world for an unprecedented exhibition
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IT firm receives abatement for job-growth plans

December 2, 2009
Indianapolis’ largest computer consulting firm on Wednesday received property-tax abatement relating to its plans to create 200 high-paying jobs and invest $600,000 in new equipment.
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Indiana Ice plan to build $12 million hockey facility

December 2, 2009
Scott Olson
Ice Sports and Entertainment, the owner of the Indiana Ice hockey team, announced Wednesday afternoon that it plans to build a complex that could contain up to four skating rinks and house the Indiana/World Skating Academy.
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State sues teachers' union for securities fraud

December 2, 2009
J.K. Wall
The Indiana Secretary of State's securities division says Indiana State Teachers Association can't account for $23 million intended for school districts, requests assets be frozen.
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Attorneys drop troubled home builder Hansen & Horn

December 2, 2009
Scott Olson
Indianapolis-based Hansen & Horn Group Inc. is without legal representation after attorneys defending the troubled home builder from a slew of lawsuits dropped it as a client.
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Clarian Federal Credit Union acquires Community Choice

December 2, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The combined firm will have more than 8,700 members and more than $20 million in assets.
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Cummins to lay off 400-plus workers in New York

December 2, 2009
Andrea Muirragui Davis
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. will idle at least 400 workers at a manufacturing facility in Jamestown, N.Y., because of a change in emission standards that will cut production from 500 engines a day to 100.
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Shepherd Insurance buys rival DeTrude & Co.

December 2, 2009
J.K. Wall
The acquisition of DeTrude & Co. by Shepherd Insurance marks the 13th purchase of an Indianapolis-area benefits brokerage since mid-2007.
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Massive CEDIA Expo returning to city after 5-year break

December 2, 2009
Andrea Muirragui Davis
The locally based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association will bring its fall trade show back to Indianapolis in 2011 and 2012—making good on a promise to return after a $275 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center.
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Part of Mississippi's Zyprexa case against Lilly dismissed

December 2, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. has won a bid to dismiss part of a negligence lawsuit brought by Mississippi that alleges improper marketing of antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses.
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Trailer maker plans to add 100 jobs in Peru

December 2, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Peru recreational vehicle maker Riverside Travel Trailer Inc. will expand its Miami County operations, creating 100 new jobs by 2011, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday morning.
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