David Stippler, whose job is to advocate for utility consumers, thinks Mayor Greg Ballard’s quest to have Indianapolis Power & Light customers pay the startup costs for an electric-car-sharing service sets a dangerous precedent.
Next weekend is the Fourth of July. Along with the barbecues, parades and neighborhood get-togethers, we’ll hear speeches about Truth, Justice and the American Way. We might raise a toast to the Founders, and count ourselves fortunate to live in a (mostly still) democratic country.
The areas around each of Indiana’s research university campuses—Bloomington, Indianapolis, Lafayette and South Bend—all boast outsize concentration of life sciences workers. Yet the state still lags on research, development and investment funding.
The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and Rep. Cherrish Pryor are both voicing concerns about a potential rate increase proposed by Indianapolis Power & Light that could help fund some of the start-up costs for the BlueIndy electric-car-sharing project.
Even before taking over, Eddie Pillow is making changes at the logistics and courier company his dad started in 1988.
In November, Mayor Greg Ballard hoped to have City-County Council approval in January on a financing plan to help fix the IUPUI Natatorium. Now some councilors wonder if the mayor is changing directions on the issue.
Ambrose Property Group Inc. is doubling down on the struggling downtown office market by purchasing its second property within six months.
Obamacare’s tax credits are pumping nearly $400 million into the coffers of health insurers in Indiana this year, according to data released by the federal government and the insurance companies.
Finances are increasingly challenging for small, private schools, causing many to do whatever is necessary to attract students, particularly students who can afford tuition ranging from $25,000 to $45,000 annually.
The city of Indianapolis, IUPUI and Lilly Endowment are preparing to unveil a broad plan for the west end of downtown and Haughville.
Forty-five Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows received incentives to attend cutting-edge master's degree programs at Ball State, IUPUI, Purdue University, the University of Indianapolis and Valparaiso University.
Indiana University Health and Aetna Inc. have extended their contract 60 days to try to work out a new deal. The Indianapolis-based hospital system was set to fall out of the provider network of Connecticut-based Aetna on July 1, but the sides agreed to extend their contract until Sept. 1. Aetna has a modest presence in Indiana, claiming about 6 percent of enrollment in all preferred provider networks, according to a recent report by HealthLeaders-InterStudy. Aetna has a strong presence in the Bloomington area, which IU Health serves via the IU Health Bloomington Hospital. In February, IU Health and Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare agreed to terms after IU Health fell out of UnitedHealthcare’s network of discounts Jan. 1.
Covidien LP will consolidate its U.S. operations for repairing and upgrading medical-device products at its Plainfield facility, hiring up to 112 more workers by the end of 2015. The firm currently employs about 50 in its technical service center at 2824 Airwest Blvd. It will hire new workers and relocate similar operations from Boulder, Colo. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has offered the company up to $1.12 million in conditional tax credits based on its job-creation plans. The credits are performance-based, meaning the company cannot claim them until it hires workers. In June, Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc., the second-largest maker of medical devices, agreed to buy Ireland-based parent Covidien Plc for $42.9 billion in cash and stock.
The Pence administration submitted its HIP 2.0 plan to the Obama administration last week, asking to use an altered version of the Healthy Indiana Plan to expand coverage to as many as 350,000 low-income Hoosiers, according to the Associated Press. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services must approve the proposal before the state can put it into action. In a letter submitting the waiver request, Gov. Mike Pence said the plan offers a “broader set of consumer-driven health care choices.”
The economics of the Obamacare’s exchanges are proving attractive to both employers and workers, but a new poll shows that workers still don’t want to end up in them.
The four projects, one of them condominiums, would add nearly 280 units within about a four-block stretch from East Michigan Street north to Massachusetts Avenue.
Leo Brown Group opened two facilities in Indianapolis and Avon in June, and has started construction on two similar projects in Ohio and Kentucky.
Near the first anniversary of ExactTarget’s $2.5 billion purchase by Salesforce.com, local tech gurus explain how the acquisition lifted all ships by bringing new prestige, investment and expertise to the city.
Those of us who work in the city but live elsewhere should help pay to keep it strong.
Indiana physicians and research organizations reaped more than $25 million in payments from 15 pharmaceutical firms in 2012, according to the most recent data made available by the not-for-profit group ProPublica. Lilly was the biggest spender and the IU medical school was the biggest recipient.
IMPD officers are not required to live in the city, and about 240, or 16 percent of the force, choose to reside elsewhere. Many of the city’s highest-crime neighborhoods have the fewest police officers as residents.
