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CIB to fight council’s attempt to take $15 million

The Capital Improvement Board’s directors voted Thursday afternoon on three actions that will circumvent the $15 million payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, which the Indianapolis City-County Council included in the CIB’s budget.

Production of Inc. 500 firms ranks city sixth nationally

The Indianapolis area produced more Inc. 500 companies per person from 2001 to 2010 than all but five other U.S. metro areas with more than 1 million residents, according to a recent study by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.

Defense contractors play wait and see on budget cuts

Indiana’s largest military contractors are questioning their future operations as they await word on whether the U.S. Department of Defense will lose up to $1 trillion in funding in the next decade.

EDITORIAL: IndyCar board overreacted

The board’s dismissal of CEO Randy Bernard seemed to cut a change agent off at the knees, and that could come back to haunt them.

MORRIS: Your vote on Nov. 6 is important

We all need to express our feelings about what’s going on in our local communities, our state and our country by casting votes for the candidates we believe can make the most positive impact on our lives.

LOU’S VIEWS: Michael Feinstein shines in book on the brothers Gershwin

For me, the highlights of any Michael Feinstein concert come in between the numbers, when the cabaret and concert star—and artistic director of the Center for the Performing Arts—shares anecdotes and insight about the composer and lyricists who crafted the tunes. His storytelling style translates nicely to the printed page.

Rusthoven an ‘epigone’

It is clear that Richard Mourdock is an astringent to the derriere of Peter Rusthoven [Oct. 29 column]. How else does one explain why the luminous Lugar acolyte Rusthoven would attack Mourdock for Mourdock’s cumbersome locution for which he has apologized and clarified?

Selective spin

Bruce Hetrick’s [Oct. 22] column “spouted off” on two examples of GOP “spin,” one regarding Republican Paul Ryan, the other regarding Republican Mitt Romney.

SCHMIDT: Romney energy policy best

Indiana is blessed with abundant energy resources. We have a 300-year supply of coal. A substantial part of the 214 million barrels of oil and 4.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Illinois Basin sits in southwestern Indiana. We have even more natural gas locked away as shale gas, coal bed methane and landfill gas.

KENNEDY: Lots of tea, not much sympathy

Mike Pence has been running a strategically brilliant campaign, taking care to mask his inner culture warrior while displaying a previously invisible interest in economic development and job creation.

HICKS: The problems with polling and predictions

Just days before a presidential election, there’s no doubt we will be bombarded with poll results and election models designed to predict winners and losers. It is useful to explain how these work without technical jargon.

Two charged with furniture thefts

Fishers police have arrested two people who may be connected to a series of thefts at merchants in Hamilton and Marion counties. Rogar Simmons, 34, and Michelle Doehring, 53, both of Cleveland, face preliminary charges of theft after police say they were caught using fraudulent information to buy furniture at the Kittle’s Furniture distribution center. A possible accomplice who was driving their U-Haul truck fled the scene on foot. Police said more charges may be filed.
 

Chemical spill at local plant contained

Authorities say workers were evacuated from a Rolls-Royce facility near Indianapolis International Airport early Thursday because of an acid spill. A fire official said a valve failed, causing three types of acid to mix in an aluminum drum and eat through the drum. A hazardous materials team contained and neutralized the spill. No injuries were reported.