Despite virus, city bids to host dozens of sports events
Local officials are betting big on Indianapolis’ continued success as a sports city by submitting two dozen bids for championship-level events slated through 2030.
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First Merchants makes big moves after lending-bias settlements
First Merchants has begun constructing a $2 million branch that’s expected to open in the mostly Black Avondale Meadows neighborhood in late November. It’s he most visible sign yet of sweeping changes at the Muncie-based financial institution after it settled redlining investigations last year.
City gets serious about enforcing minority contracting goals
But not everyone agrees the change will make a significant difference in ensuring the city’s bidding process is more inclusive, and they argue more work needs to be done.
Downtown Indy CEO leading fight for downtown’s recovery
Sherry Seiwert spoke with IBJ recently about what her organization is doing to help the city bounce back.
Q&A with Indy Scream Park’s marketing director
The pandemic has forced the haunted attraction in Anderson to make dozens of adjustments—including buying a fogging machine that will disinfect the attractions every night—to try to keep staff and customers safe.
Editorial: County’s health department has bungled attendance limits
We don’t begrudge the health department for setting limits. Big crowds can fan the spread of the coronavirus, and many NFL and USL Championship teams aren’t permitting any fans to attend. But the sudden shifts fuel a perception that health officials are pulling numbers out of a hat, rather than making carefully thought-out judgments.
NATE FELTMAN: The alarm is ringing for Indy’s next leaders
Crisis often can lead to positive change. We have a responsibility to act and act now.
KIM: COVID ‘K train’ further splits haves, have-nots
The letter “K” is a vertical line with two 45-degree lines slanting from the middle, one upward and one downward, and unfortunately it best describes the paths of the economy and stock market.
Letter: Are GOP moderates on verge of extinction?
Most county officials in southern Indiana as well as non-urban legislators are Republicans. But those Republicans are not like the Republicans of the past.
2 former lawmakers now running to become Indiana’s top lawyer
Political veterans face off in bid to replace Republican Curtis Hill.
Rokita says he’ll be an ‘aggressive’ attorney general
The former congressman and secretary of state entered the race in May just before the filing deadline because he believed the GOP incumbent, Curtis Hill, was no longer suitable for the office.
Weinzapfel says AG should be about policy, not politics
When the former Evansville mayor announced his candidacy in December, he believed he’d be facing embattled Republican incumbent Curtis Hill. Instead, is running against Republican Todd Rokita.
Indiana’s ed-tech sector grows rapidly with startups, not-for-profits
Here are six companies and one not-for-profit organization from central Indiana that are experimenting in the ed-tech sector.
MIKE LOPRESTI: Strange twists, turns in sports fit with the surreality of 2020
This could be the year of an all-Chicago World Series between the Cubs and White Sox. The only other time that happened was 1906.
Chase to close three Indianapolis bank branches
The three branches, all of them in Indianapolis, will close on different dates in October and November. Even after the closures, though, Chase will still have three dozen or so locations around the city.
Indiana reports 1,195 COVID-19 cases, 18 more deaths
The Indiana State Department of Health on Friday reported the highest number of cases since Sept. 13 and the largest number of deaths since Sept. 15.
Purdue-led team uses public camera footage to analyze pandemic crowd sizes
The system searches the web for cameras that have been posted online and then saves image data and downloads videos roughly every 10 minutes. The program sends the data to cloud data centers to be analyzed through artificial intelligence with a high level of accuracy.
Marion County easing some, not all, pandemic restrictions
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Friday that he would ease some pandemic restrictions on businesses in Indianapolis starting Monday, but not as much as the rest of the state.
Prominent Indiana Republican says he won’t vote for Trump
John Mutz, who served as lieutenant governor under Gov. Robert Orr from 1980-1988, is the most prominent Indiana Republican to publicly rebuke President Trump.
MUTZ: I’m still a proud Republican, but we must defeat Trump
Some of us fear the Democratic candidate’s positions on a number of issues, both foreign and domestic. However, I believe the long-term damage Trump would do our democratic republic form of government is more worrisome than policy differences.
