2021 Year in Review: Top headlines by the month
Real estate deals, police-reform legislation, a name change for the fieldhouse and more news from 2021.
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Cook Medical builds Indy factory using only contractors with diverse owners
Hiring 100% diverse contractors to build a $15 million medical-device manufacturing facility was considered difficult, if not impossible, by many in the construction industry.
Editorial: Cook Medical’s diversity commitment should be lesson for corporate Indiana
Raising up minority-owned businesses is America’s greatest hope in closing the nation’s economic racial divide and building more wealth in minority communities.
Nate Feltman: 2021 newsmakers push Indiana forward
In the latest issue of IBJ, we highlight the newsmakers of 2021: individuals who had a significant impact in our community as nominated by our readers and IBJ staffers.
Diane Janowiak: Right test, right time could help alleviate hospital readmissions
Health care systems remain under pressure to reduce readmissions. One way to do that is to analyze lab data from across the system to identify room for improvement.
Maureen Weber: A diverse pipeline begins with investing in early-learning programs
Far too many Black and Hispanic students are falling behind in K-12 education, receiving waiver diplomas, not pursuing post-secondary education and failing to complete post-secondary degrees.
Letter: State officials are failing us
The governor on down is willing to let the disaster unfold and get worse. The economy and financial gain is the mantra for state government officials.
Letter: Don’t fret masks; worry about teachers
It’s sad to see the focus on suing the feds when the reality is that if our state government doesn’t start doing something to support our teachers and schools and improve school financials.
Memory Bank: Happy New Year from 1947!
A group of partygoers wearing paper hats toasts the New Year in the dining room of the Melville Rentsch home at 3740 Forest Manor Avenue in Indianapolis.
2021 Newsmaker of the Year: Ryan Vaughn, Indiana Sports Corp. president
The Indiana Sports Corp. hosted the entire NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which is why IBJ has named its president the top newsmaker of 2021—although we know he would want to share the credit with others.
Homeowners keep spending on renovations, upgrades
Homeowners locally and nationwide, far from being deterred by supply-chain snarls, are showing increasing interest in remodeling.
Judge allows WISH-TV’s discrimination suit against AT&T to move forward
A federal judge has ruled that a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against AT&T by Circle City Broadcasting, which owns WISH-TV Channel 8 and WNDY-TV Channel 23, may move forward as the two companies battle over retransmission fees.
Indiana reports new all-time high for COVID-19 cases
Indiana on Thursday reported 48 more deaths from COVID-19, coming on top of 58 deaths the previous day and 170 in Tuesday’s report.
Q&A with Homer Somerville, a construction veteran
His company is one of about two dozen minority-owned or disadvantaged subcontractors who are working on a $15 million manufacturing facility that will produce medical devices for Bloomington-based Cook Medical.
Kim & Todd Saxton: Are you working on your business? Or in it?
Too often, business owners get so caught up with working IN the business that they forget to work ON the business.
2021 Year in Review: The year’s toughest job: Finding enough workers
Businesses that had been in COVID-19 lockdown mode for a year suddenly needed lots of employees to flip burgers, stock shelves and sell merchandise. Customers were back after restrictions were lifted and thousands of people were getting vaccinated.
2021 Year in Review: Schellinger leaves IEDC; Chambers takes over
Longtime commercial real estate developer Brad Chambers was named Indiana’s secretary of commerce, roughly three months after Jim Schellinger abruptly resigned the position
2021 Year in Review: Tech firms, funds raise record amounts
Local tech companies have had huge success in attracting funding this year, led by Formstack which landed a $425 million growth investment in November—by far the largest single capital raise by an Indiana-based technology company in the state’s history.
2021 Year in Review: Garage, AMP food halls lead restaurant resurgence
Following a 2020 dominated by news about restaurants closing permanently, the central Indiana dining scene regained momentum in 2021.
2021 Year in Review: Entire NCAA tourney rolls into Indy area
Indiana took on one of the most gargantuan events in its history this year, playing host to all 68 teams and thousands of spectators for the entire NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
