December 16, 2012
Associated PressOutgoing Gov. Mitch Daniels would be paid $420,000 a year in his new job as president of Purdue University under an incentive-based
contract approved by the school's board of trustees' compensation committee.
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December 15, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinWhat the 2013 legislative session lacks in spectacle, it’s sure to make up for in surprises.
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December 13, 2012
Associated PressMarian University of Indianapolis captured its first national title Thursday night in only its sixth season of football.
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December 12, 2012
Associated PressIndiana's state superintendent of public instruction was hired Wednesday as Florida's new education commissioner.
Tony Bennett lost a bid for re-election in Indiana last month.
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December 11, 2012
Associated PressThe Education Department says the Warren Township school district is expected to receive about $29 million from the federal
Race to the Top competition.
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December 11, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe founder of a cheerleading-supply company will become the next CEO of Indianapolis-based Herff Jones Inc., one of the city's
largest private companies.
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December 11, 2012
Associated PressThe number of Indiana children enrolled in full-day kindergarten has increased by 19 percent since the state more than doubled
spending for the program.
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December 7, 2012
Associated PressIn August, Greenfield city officials decided to drastically slash funds for Greenfield-Central High School's broadcasting
program. The future of the programs remains in a state of limbo for the 2013-14 school year and beyond.
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December 7, 2012
Associated PressMany high-ranking administrators at Indiana University would be allowed to work past the school's current mandated retirement
age of 65 under a proposed new policy that one official said would better reflects current careers.
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December 7, 2012
Associated PressLugar is starting an internship program with the University of Indianapolis that will operate out of Washington, D.C. He has
also agreed to deliver a handful of lectures each year as a distinguished professor at the private university.
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December 6, 2012
J.K. WallMayor Greg Ballard’s office has approved seven more charters—more than half as many as he approved in his previous
five years in office.
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December 5, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University has hired Darrell Hazell as its new football coach. Hazell won this season's Mid-American Conference
coach of the year award after leading Kent State to its first winning season since 2001.
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December 4, 2012
Associated PressThe leader of Indiana's Senate Education Committee said Tuesday that Republicans shouldn't change the state schools
superintendent position to one appointed by the governor following the election of a Democrat to that office.
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December 4, 2012
Associated PressSenate Education Committee chairman Dennis Kruse said he would not introduce a creationism measure again this year, choosing
a lighter tack instead. His new proposal, he said, would encourage students to question a broad range of topics in the classroom.
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December 4, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University plans to eliminate 22 jobs by shutting down its in-house construction inspection department.
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December 3, 2012
J.K. WallAfter losing re-election in Indiana, state schools chief Tony Bennett has applied to be Florida’s commissioner of education,
according to a statement released by his office Monday morning.
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November 26, 2012
Associated PressResearchers from Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute will serve as collaborating partners on a major grant
from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to address vulnerabilities arising during the process of software development.
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November 26, 2012
Associated PressPurdue wants a football team that can get to the Rose Bowl, and decided Danny Hope was not the coach to take it there. Replacement
names already percolating include Northern Illinois' Dave Doeren, Illinois State's Brock Spack and Ball State's Pete Lembo.
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November 25, 2012
Associated PressIndiana's new superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Glenda Ritz, said she can make some policy changes for the
state's schools without needing the approval of the Republican-controlled General Assembly and governor's office.
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November 24, 2012
J.K. WallDuring Republican Tony Bennett’s tenure as superintendent of public instruction, Indiana became the poster child for
school choice. But with Bennett’s surprising election loss to Democrat Glenda Ritz this month, the future of charter
schools and private-school vouchers is murkier.
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November 20, 2012
Associated PressIncoming state school Superintendent Glenda Ritz says she intends to remove herself as a plaintiff in a lawsuit that seeks
to overturn the state's popular school voucher program.
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November 20, 2012
Bloomberg NewsRutgers University is moving to the Big Ten Conference, ending a more than two-decade affiliation with the Big East as it
looks to strengthen its athletic, financial and academic standing.
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November 19, 2012
Associated PressMaryland will become the southernmost member of the Big Ten member starting in July 2014. Rutgers is expected to follow suit
by Tuesday, splitting from the Big East and making it an even 14 schools in the Big Ten.
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November 17, 2012
Scott OlsonUniversity is opting to open more courses to the masses.
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November 17, 2012
J.K. WallWestern Governors University allows students to complete courses as fast as they want and take as many courses as they want
a semester, all for the same per-semester fee. But universities in Indiana believe the style isn't for everyone.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.