State launches dashboard for COVID-19 cases in long-term-care facilities
Dashboard users will be able to search specific long-term care facilities to see reported cases and deaths.
Dashboard users will be able to search specific long-term care facilities to see reported cases and deaths.
The Marion County Public Health Department will now immediately slap $1,000 fines on businesses and venues that defy mask and social distancing mandates, Dr. Virginia Caine, department director, announced Tuesday.
The funding comes from roughly $168 million that Indianapolis received from the federal government to respond to COVID-19 needs.
The proposed budget takes in $113,884 more than it spends, leading Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration to characterize it as the fourth consecutive balanced budget since he took office in 2016.
For weeks, camps of people experiencing homelessness and those suffering from substance use disorders have settled in on Monument Circle and near City Market.
Chris Baggott, ClusterTruck co-founder and CEO, told IBJ that the company will use the money to expand and add new locations in its home city, Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio.
The program was developed to assist and preserve the Hoosier Hospitality destinations and organizations that help enhance the quality of life the state offers.
To date, more than 24,000 Hoosiers have submitted an application seeking rental assistance through the program, which launched July 13.
The first public meeting will include a first look at initial survey results as well as data that has been gathered by the Criminal Justice Lab.
The Indianapolis Department of Public Works will close Indiana Avenue from Blackford to West streets from Thursday afternoon until Monday afternoon.
A City-County Council committee this week killed a proposal requesting the mayor and his administration waive the city’s option to purchase Blue Indy’s charging stations and kiosks.
The city will not subsidize construction of Kite’s two hotels on the site but will ask the City-County Council to authorize a $150 million bond to finance an addition to the Indiana Convention Center.
The project, which includes plans for a $125 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center, would also create 2,500 construction jobs before completion in 2025.
The project, expected to cost as much as $550 million to construct, has been in the works for years as Kite and the city worked to reach an agreement.
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Education Betsy Devos and Dr. Deborah Birx, a leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, joined Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and leaders of Marian University on Friday for a roundtable about how to reopen K-12 schools and and universities.
Among other restrictions, the new guidelines, which start Friday, prevent in-class instruction at schools until at least Aug. 5 and close bars and nightclubs until at least Aug. 12.
The Indianapolis City-County Council’s Municipal Corporations Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to advance the proposal to the full council.
The money would be directed toward needs at the West Perry, Pike and Nora branches, plus the library’s Center for Black Literature and Culture digital project.
The center will move operations from a building it has operated in for several years at 1331 E. Washington St.
The lab was announced several months ago as a project by the Indianapolis eLearning Fund, which was formed to support teachers in Indianapolis as they transitioned to eLearning. The fund contributed $1.6 million to developing the lab, which is now up and running.