Debate heats up over revamped teacher license rule
The proposal has sparked fierce opposition and created a turf battle that could come to a head Monday when the state holds its final public hearing on the issue in Indianapolis.
The proposal has sparked fierce opposition and created a turf battle that could come to a head Monday when the state holds its final public hearing on the issue in Indianapolis.
The Indiana Finance Authority declined to sell a 19-acre development parcel between the White River and Fall Creek near downtown Indianapolis after it received only two bids at an auction Thursday.
Cantaloupe.TV, known for
its video marketing expertise, has been working closely with locally based ExactTarget, the well-known e-mail marketing firm,
to give ExactTarget’s clients an easier way of embedding video into e-mails.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc.’s Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield subsidiary claimed 42.5 percent of central Indiana residents
covered by private health insurance
this year, up from 35-percent last year, according to a market research firm.
One of the toughest runs for the finance industry since the Great Depression didn’t lead to a major shakeup in Indianapolis’
banking landscape. Substitute PNC’s brand for National City’s, and the top eight positions remain unchanged.
The civic festival Spirit and Place, which runs Nov. 5-16, has been a fixture of the fall season since 1996, but organizers
are still trying to explain to Indianapolis residents what it’s all about.
Many of Wishard Memorial Hospital’s buildings date back to 1914 and many of the areas in the hospital are quite outdated. As I walk around the facility
every week, it is apparent that the hospital is not only outdated but it is beyond remodeling.
Despite a swooning economy that has hammered the time-share condominium industry over the last 18 months, Resort Condominiums
International continues to outperform its market. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some pain at
the company formerly headquartered in Carmel.
Count Butler University basketball on the short list of teams that could make it to the Final Four.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre presents "The Elephant Man," Oct. 30-Nov. 15. For details, click
here.
Cardinal Stage presents the comedy "Boom,"
Oct. 30-Nov. 15, at the Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington. For details, click here.
IU Auditorium presents Bob Dylan, Nov. 2. For details, click here.
Actors Theatre of Indiana presents "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra," Nov.
4-15, at Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Terrace. For details, click here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents "The Casket Girls," Oct. 29-30, at Pike Performing
Arts Center. For details, click here.
Clowes Memorial
Hall presents The Swell Season (best known for the title song from the movie "Once"), Nov. 2. For
details, click here.
Baldwin & Lyons Inc. on Thursday morning reported a record third-quarter profit, thanks to big investment gains and an increase
in premiums.
Just over half of students at state-supported, four-year institutions in Indiana graduate within six years—a tremendous
waste of resources by both students and taxpayers. The number of citizens with bachelor’s degrees is one of the surest
indicators of economic success in a 21st century economy driven less by workers’ hands
and more by their heads.
The owner of the vacant former Fall Creek YMCA along West 10th Street is seeking bidders interested in tearing down the building
and redeveloping the prime 2-acre site.
The state should delay unemployment tax increases on businesses from 2010 to 2011 to help companies retain workers and possibly
wait long enough for a federal bailout, Republicans who control the Indiana Senate said Tuesday.
Shares of Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. closed Monday at $1.53, the 10th straight day the stock has finished
trading above $1—preserving the company’s listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Shares of Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. closed Monday at $1.53, the 10th straight day the stock has finished
trading above $1—preserving the company’s listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange, but big challenges remain for the locally
based owner of radio stations and magazines.
Even in bad times
people want to be entertained.” Nationwide, roughly 2,000 haunted houses, hayrides and other attractions
rake in $1 billion annually of the $7 billion consumers spend on Halloween, according to St. Louis-based trade group Hauntworld
Inc.
Democratic lawmakers are seeking to stir up competition by stripping health insurers like Indianapolis-based WellPoint of
their protection from certain federal antitrust laws, although experts shrug off the effort as largely symbolic.
Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham has treated Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. almost like a personal bank since buying it seven
years ago, and now he, his partners and related firms owe it more than $168 million, records show.