May 15, 2013
Associated PressThe Federal Highway Administration report found Indiana Department of Transportation records were adequate and sufficient.
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May 4, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indiana Department of Transportation will press ahead with a request for proposals on Interstate 69 from Bloomington to
Martinsville, in hopes that a public-private partnership will stretch limited state funds.
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February 27, 2013
Scott OlsonFor the third time, the Hoosier Environmental Council has filed a federal suit attempting to stop construction of the 142-mile
link between Evansville and Indianapolis.
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February 9, 2013
Chris O'MalleyAs legislators brace for a $250 million annual transportation spending gap down the road, the Indiana Department of Transportation
has designated more than one-third of its entire federal highway aid this year toward building 27 miles of Interstate 69 between
Crane and Bloomington.
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December 17, 2012
Anthony SchoettleThe Fishers Town Council voted Monday to spend $8 million in local funds toward construction of an Interstate 69 exit at 106th
Street that will cost an estimated $25 million to build.
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December 4, 2012
Associated PressIndiana is considering hiring a private firm to design and build the stretch of Interstate 69 from Bloomington to Martinsville.
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December 4, 2012
Associated PressUsers of the new 67-mile stretch of Interstate 69 that opened two weeks ago in southern Indiana say it is already saving them
time and money.
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November 13, 2012
Associated PressThe opening of the Interstate 69 extension's first section in southwestern Indiana next week presents economic opportunities
that some business and government leaders say the area must seize.
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November 2, 2012
The 67-mile stretch of Interstate 69 connects communities from just northeast of Evansville at Interstate 64 to the U.S. 231
interchange near the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center.
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September 25, 2012
Associated PressPaving on both northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 69 from Evansville to the U.S. 231 interchange in southern Greene
County is nearly completed.
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August 9, 2012
Associated PressThe first 65 miles of Indiana's Interstate 69 extension from Evansville to Indianapolis are expected to open to traffic
in November once contractors finish up the project's first leg, state highway officials said.
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July 25, 2012
Associated PressA federal judge has ruled against opponents of the $3 billion Interstate 69 extension between Indianapolis and Evansville
who claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal law.
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April 25, 2012
Associated PressThe complaints were quieter but still firm during the latest public hearing about plans for the Interstate 69 extension through
southern Indiana.
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April 23, 2012
Associated PressA project to widen Interstate 69 at the 116th Street/Indiana 37 interchange in Fishers will restrict traffic to two lanes
in both directions beginning in June.
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April 18, 2012
Associated PressSeveral government and business leaders participated in a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the 27-mile stretch of I-69
from near the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center to Indiana 37 south of Bloomington.
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March 13, 2012
Associated PressA Monroe County commissioner is pushing to invalidate a Bloomington planning panel's vote that added a contentious section
of the Indianapolis-to-Evansville Interstate 69 extension to the group's local highway plan.
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March 9, 2012
Associated PressA Bloomington planning panel voted narrowly Friday to back off its opposition to a section of the Interstate 69 extension
from Indianapolis to Evansville that would pass through Monroe County.
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February 25, 2012
Associated PressA southern Indiana panel has delayed until March a vote on whether to add a hotly debated section of the Interstate 69 extension
into its transportation plan.
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February 18, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Indiana Department of Transportation and a contractor on the Interstate 69 project downstate have been cited for more
than a dozen deficiencies in preventing erosion and the flow of sediment into streams.
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February 2, 2012
Associated PressAn Indiana congressman is seeking an amendment to a federal bill that would target a Bloomington group's refusal to include
part of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate 69 extension in its local transportation plan.
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October 29, 2011
Tom HendersonYour southern neighbors look at the sheer ugliness of convenience that surrounds Indy-area freeways and say: No way.
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October 23, 2011
Associated PressBuses in Bloomington and on the Indiana University campus could lose funding starting in 2014 if local officials don't include
Interstate 69 in their transportation infrastructure plans.
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October 19, 2011
Chris O'MalleyIndiana environmental groups file a second lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers, alleging permits for 29 miles of the
I-69 project between Oakland City and Washington violate the Clean Water Act.
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September 17, 2011
Jesse KharbandaOur organization recently released an economic analysis concluding that, over the next two years, Indiana will dedicate 23
percent of its available funding for highway construction, maintenance and repair to the new-terrain I-69 project.
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September 8, 2011
Associated PressOpponents of Indiana's nearly $3 billion Interstate 69 extension are urging a southern Indiana planning board to keep
the highway out of its transportation plan despite the state's warning that doing so could endanger federal funding for
local projects.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.