HICKS: An open letter to an elf from an economist
Last year, you brought me coal; this year, could you fill my pickup truck with gasoline instead?
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Last year, you brought me coal; this year, could you fill my pickup truck with gasoline instead?
Despite complaints about the cost of Lucas Oil Stadium's roof, which is pegged between $70 million and $90 million, it has been used 10 times more than the expensive pop top on Texas Stadium.
Private schools that saw enrollment swell this year because of Indiana's sweeping school voucher program fear they could see some of those gains erased next year as parents paying their own way instead enroll their children in public school so they can qualify for a voucher the following year.
Officials at Metal Technologies Auburn have asked the Auburn City Council to approve tax breaks for a planned expansion that would create more than 40 jobs.
Two local firms focused on architecture and urban design have jointly acquired the former Perfection Bakery Building at 618 E. Market St. in the Cole Noble Commercial Arts District on the near east side.
Tavern owners in Muncie maintain that their profits have dropped sharply since the new ordinance went into effect in August.
A pedestrian was struck and killed Wednesday evening on his way home from work at Marsh Supermarket. Kevin O’Leary, 46, was walking south on Emerson Avenue near Thompson Road at about 6:30 p.m. when a man driving a sport-utility vehicle pulled out from behind a shopping center and struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Indianapolis police are looking for two robbery suspects believed to be using ads on Craigslist to find victims. Marcus Self and Erron Broomfield are wanted in connection with at least four armed robberies. One of their alleged victims told Fox59 that he responded to an ad offering an iPhone for sale and was robbed at gunpoint, breaking his hand as he tried to get away. Two others told police they were held up when they went to a home in the 6100 block of Windsor Drive to buy a laptop. The suspects are considered armed and dangerous.
It will be difficult to rebrand the arena where the Indiana Pacers play, but team officials praised sponsor CNO Financial for sticking with the $20 million naming-rights deal despite tough times.
For the three-week period ended Dec. 18, the Indianapolis-based athletic apparel retailer said sales in stores open at least a year increased 7 percent from the same time last year. For the entire quarter, company profit increased 35 percent, to $5.5 million.
Huntingburg-based Farbest Foods Inc. said it will invest $69 million to build a 220,000-square-foot facility.
Without an election, what will make an appointed superintendent inclined to pay even the slightest attention to any school board member, teacher, parent or student when they offer suggestions to improve the quality of education?
The governor has control over the state board, but the superintendent controls the agenda.
We are present again at one of those great unravelings.
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
The right of access to information is like a muscle—if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies.
If an artist says that it is art, who are we to gainsay it?
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.