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PROXY CORNER: First Financial Corp.
Terre Haute-based First Financial Corp. is the holding company for First Financial Bank, The Morris Plan Co. of Terre Haute and Forrest Sherer Insurance. It operates more than 60 banking offices in Indiana and Illinois.
EDITORIAL: Pence should stick with business game plan
It will soon be time for newly elected governor Mike Pence to prove his critics wrong. Pence beat challenger John Gregg in a closer-than-expected race in which he was accused of using his campaign’s major themes—jobs and the economy—to hide his conservative social agenda from Hoosier voters.
Music education group to remain in city through 2023
Indianapolis-based not-for-profit Music for All, which puts on the annual Bands of America competition, announced Thursday that it plans to keep its headquarters and events in Indianapolis through 2023.
Area home-building permit filings surge 46 percent
The Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis said October’s jump marked the biggest year-over-year increase this year. Activity was strongest in Hamilton and Hendricks counties.
Town of Fishers to become city with elected mayor
Voters in the fast-growing suburb north of Indianapolis approved a ballot measure Tuesday that will turn the town of 80,000 residents into a second class city with an elected mayor.
Reform-minded candidates secure IPS board seats
The Indianapolis Public Schools board will have a new look in the new year.
FacadeTek eliminating 72 jobs in Whitestown
Glass fabricator FacadeTek Inc. has notified state officials that it will eliminate 72 jobs at its Whitestown facility in January.
Westfield votes to approve $91M water utility sale
The Westfield City Council voted 6-1 Monday night to transfer its water and wastewater assets to Citizens Energy Group for $91 million.
Johnson County passes tougher smoking law
Johnson County commissioners on Monday morning approved countywide public smoking restrictions that will take effect in January. The ordinance is more restrictive than previous laws passed in Franklin and Greenwood.
Kite Realty reports higher revenue, bigger loss
Kite Realty Group Trust Inc. reported higher revenue and a bigger loss during its fiscal third quarter, a busy period during which the company raised $60 million from a share offering and bought one Florida shopping center and sold another.
State fund invests $600,000 in neutron-detection company
The Indiana’s 21st Century Fund investment will help PartTec Ltd. commercialize its technology. The money will be co-invested with $1.2 million in private funds.
Interactive Intelligence posts lower profit on higher revenue
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. reported a 67-percent drop in profit on higher revenue as orders grew significantly in the third quarter.
Interstate 69 extension under budget, set to open
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.
NFP of NOTE: Partnerships for Lawrence
Partnerships for Lawrence, aka the Lawrence Art Center, is a champion for the arts in Lawrence.
Candidates for governor respond to open government survey
The survey by the Indiana Coalition for Open Government was the first since 2004.
Speech recognition technology firm gets cash infusion
Waveform Communications LLC got its second round of funding for research and development.
EDITORIAL: IndyCar board overreacted
The board’s dismissal of CEO Randy Bernard seemed to cut a change agent off at the knees, and that could come back to haunt them.