This small town between Indianapolis and Cincinnati was hardly ailing when it landed the economic development prize of the decade-a new Honda plant. Back in June 2006, Decatur County’s unemployment rate was a healthy 4.2 percent, lower than the state’s as a whole. With Honda’s promise of 2,000 jobs by 2010, a boom seemed just […]
Hope and fear mix in Paul Nysewander when he considers President Barack Obama’s controversial idea to set up a new governmentrun health insurance plan. The owner of a three-person accounting firm, Nysewander says there’s significant appeal in having a public plan as a new option for health insurance. “As long as it remains an option,” […]
Last week, I posted a message on Twitter and Facebook. “It’s time to columnize,” I said. “What issue is ripe for enlightenment (or disparagement)?” My microcosm erupted. Tristan tweeted to suggest puppy-mill dogs. “More specifically, the view by their breeders that they’re simply goods to be sold.” Randy suggested a piece on “the insanity” of […]
Employers who offer health insurance coverage could see a 9-percent cost increase next year, and their workers may face an even bigger hit, according to a report from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Costs will rise in part because workers worried about losing their jobs are using their health care insurance more while they still have it, […]
The number of homeless families in the state’s most-populous county grew by 78 percent this year, an official count shows, but the actual number is several times higher, an advocacy group said yesterday. Meanwhile, the total of homeless individuals has declined. The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention said a federally required homeless count on […]
Two chemistry professors at IUPUI are laboring to create the McDonald’s of research laboratories – low-cost and all over the world. Bill Scott and Martin O’Donnell have started a project called Distributed Drug Discovery, trying to lure in researchers and students at universities around the globe to collaborate over the Internet to discover new drugs. […]
A little-known federal program provides support for retraining to workers whose employers were hurt by foreign trade. The
Trade Adjustment Assistance Act also offers income replacement and health insurance benefits.
The city of Anderson soon will tap a new well to help accommodate demand from Nestle USA, which opened a Madison County plant
in May 2008 producing bottled, flavored Nesquik and liquid Coffee-mate, a water-based creamer. The
company already has launched an expansion slated for completion in 2011.
Jim Kinman knew foreign competition was draining the U.S. furniture industry, but he hoped the trend that was shutting down factories would somehow spare the salesmen. “I’d hoped that I could sneak out a retirement,” said Kinman, a 58-year-old Greenwood resident. Kinman was regional sales manager for ATC Panels, a particle-board maker based in North […]
ANDERSON-Tom Brewer has a recipe for reviving this city abandoned by the U.S. auto industry. Study satellite photography, groundwater flow and historic well records. Build wells to increase pumping capacity by millions of gallons daily. Then position that bounty in front of food processors-one of the thirstiest industries out there. “Food processors are notorious for […]
Carmel-based Gaylor Inc., one of the largest electrical contractors in the Indianapolis area, said yesterday that it has acquired Griffith Group Inc. in Lafayette. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Griffith Group is an electrical, heating and cooling contractor that mainly services customers in Tippecanoe and Lake counties. The company has 25 employees. Gaylor […]
Carmel-based Gaylor Inc., one of the largest electrical contractors in the Indianapolis area, said yesterday that it has acquired Griffith Group Inc. in Lafayette. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Griffith Group is an electrical, heating and cooling contractor that mainly services customers in Tippecanoe and Lake counties. The company has 25 employees. Gaylor […]
Current and former employees of Bloomington-based International Outsourcing Services LLC are under assault by federal prosecutors
who charged they participated in a scheme to bilk some of the nation’s largest issuers of coupons out of more than $250 million.
The familiar face of a local Hispanic television newscast is back on the air, less than six months after the parent of WISH-TV
Channel 8 pulled the plug on him.
Folks from all sorts of professions are trying on teaching, to survive the recession or to give back to the community. Or
both.
Mary Hansen considered going into teaching when she was in college. Now, two decades later-with retirement savings shrunk and kids’ college on the horizon-the Carmel resident is doing it. Michelle Skinner wanted to go to graduate school after earning her degree at Butler University. But she put that off to do something “worthwhile”-teach high school […]
The familiar face of a local Hispanic television newscast is back on the air, less than six months after the parent of WISH-TV Channel 8 pulled the plug on him. But perhaps even more impressive than the speedy return is the array of loyal advertisers, including one of the city’s largest public companies, that stuck […]
Hoosiers see too many specialty physicians and are driving up health care costs as they do, according to a recent study by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy.
Hoosiers see too many specialty physicians and are driving up health care costs as they do, according to a recent study by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy. Hoosier specialists are paid 84-percent more than primary-care doctors, and that gap has been widening rapidly since the mid-1990s. In addition, Indiana has nearly twice as […]
With sales slowed to a crawl, some entrepreneurs must take second jobs working for others to make ends meet.
