American Legion HQ changes membership tactics
In a move to shore up American Legion’s bottom line, the organization is holding back thousands of new members—along with their dues—from state affiliates.
In a move to shore up American Legion’s bottom line, the organization is holding back thousands of new members—along with their dues—from state affiliates.
Tom Carnegie, 91, who served as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s public address announcer for 60 years, has passed away.
Affiliated Computer Services, which struck a deal late last year to manage the city’s parking meters, will begin replacing meters in downtown Indianapolis and Broad Ripple early next month.
Recent moves by NFL owners and players are putting Indianapolis' 2012 Super Bowl in serious jeopardy.
Vince Caponi, CEO of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health, will take charge of hospitals in Wisconsin that are also owned by St. Vincent’s parent organization, Ascension Health. The St. Louis-based Catholic hospital system operates 19 hospitals in Indiana and three more in Wisconsin, clustered near Milwaukee. Caponi has engineered a string of acquisitions for St. Vincent Health since taking charge of the organization in 1998.
Indiana University Health will promote Kelly Braverman to the new role of vice president of operations for the health care system’s downtown hospitals–IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Braverman, 35, has worked as the special assistant to CEO Dan Evans since 2003.
Myron D. Lewis has been named administrative director of Indiana University Health Saxony Hospital, a 42-bed facility scheduled to open later this year in Fishers. Lewis previously served as administrative executive director at the 355-bed IU Health Bloomington Hospital.
Dr. Brian Leffler is joining Avon Family Health, a member of the Hendricks Regional Health Medical Group. Leffley holds degrees from Butler University and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in family medicine at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.
Feb. 22
IU Auditorium
One of the most anticipated tours of the last few years bypassed Indianapolis completely. You might use one of the show's songs and say we were totally … well, maybe you shouldn't.
Instead, to see the non-Equity touring company still on the road, you can journey to Bloomington, where the Duncan Sheik musical is stopping in for a one-night appearance. The plot concerns just about everything bad that can happen to a group of repressed teens. Details here.
That growth has been concentrated in five counties that account for nearly 60 percent of the state's Asian population. Those counties are Allen, Hamilton, Marion, Monroe and Tippecanoe
As Eli Lilly and Co. outsources work and sheds unnecessary properties, it is making moves with surplus real estate that could establish the strongest physical connection between Lilly and downtown since the company was founded at Pearl and Meridian streets 135 years ago.
Legislation that would allow Hoosiers with gun permits to carry their weapons into municipal properties could affect Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Convention Center.
At least one Indianapolis legislator has quietly investigated allowing casinos to collaborate on a temporary downtown facility, and Republican Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has publicly not ruled it out.
Why isn’t our Legislature shredding the fabric of community government by disbanding cities and towns that are only artifacts of horse-drawn days?
A program to help Indiana University Health patients get discounted hotel rooms has ballooned in recent years to the size of a midsize convention.
Building Tomorrow, which builds schools in Africa, usually finds its support on college campuses.
If intent were all that mattered, I would be writing in praise of Hoosier Bard’s “Young Hamlet.”
The massive powersports convention is one of the biggest annual events hosted by the city and is the first to use the expanded Indiana Convention Center since a $275 addition was completed.
So given Indianapolis’ central location, what’s a gambler to do when she gets the urge to press her luck? Figuring that out is nearly as hard as deciding whether to hit or stand on 16.
WellPoint Inc. became the latest health insurer to reward shareholders with a quarterly payout after piling up cash from a string of strong financial performances.
Boost Media & Entertainment’s MyStationApp targets independent radio stations such as WTTS-FM 92.3 in Bloomington, which is having success with the product.