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Hurrah! It’s too bad [Mike Hicks’ April 4 Economic Analysis column] was buried on page 28, rather than being on the front page. Our current legislative course of action almost makes me embarrassed to be from Indiana. We have very real and very serious economic, fiscal and education issues; and here is our Legislature wasting […]
[In response to Mickey Maurer’s April 4 column] We never think that Indianapolis has thousands of homeless. Horizon House is really making a difference and needs to be supported by our community for their good work. One key point you made points out poignantly that many homeless folks are good people with jobs and the […]
Today, a political leader who proposes a higher appropriation to clean streets would be criticized. If he proposed going to the moon, he would be impeached.
Nothing stirs the imagination like a near-death experience.
It is interesting that the sectors in the stock market that are doing the best today are fairly boring industries like basic materials and industrial stocks.
There is abundant research on the economic effects of right-to-work laws by economists of both the right and left. The results are pretty clear that right-to-work legislation leads to increased employment.
A hit-and-run driver was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday in Indianapolis. Roger Ordonez pleaded guilty to charges related to the crash that killed 81-year-old Lola Herman. Ordonez had a blood alcohol level of 0.24 when he ran a red light last October, slamming into Herman’s vehicle at West 16th Street and Martin Luther King Drive as she headed home after volunteering at Riley Hospital for Children.
A driver who crashed into a townhouse near 16th Street and College Avenue early Thursday had been shot in the thigh prior to the accident, Indianapolis police say. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 4 a.m. The victim’s gold Isuzu SUV was traveling south on College, crossed the northbound lanes and slammed into the home.
During the worst economic swoon the nation has seen in a generation, the Indianapolis Indians have doubled its sponsorhsip revenue.
Federal Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson on Thursday morning vacated the original trial date of May 16 and instead set jury selection for June 8, 2012. Meanwhile, lawyers for Tim Durham argued for his release from a halfway house he was sent to on Wednesday.
Marian University will assume management of the Major Taylor Velodrome and the surrounding Lake Sullivan Sports Complex under a partnership announced Thursday morning by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.
A Michigan insurance company is seeking to avoid paying for any claims made by Mavris Arts & Event Center in Indianapolis involving a high-profile fatal wedding-shuttle accident last summer.
Indiana legislators are disagreeing about how old someone should look before they have to provide identification when buying alcohol.
Indianapolis Downs LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 reorganization, attributed much of its heavy debt load to a $250 million slots-license fee paid to the state.
The Metropolitan Development Commission on Wednesday preliminarily approved Advion BioServices Inc.’s request for a tax abatement to build a laboratory at Purdue Research Park in Indianapolis.
Attorneys for Democrats and Republican Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White accused each other's clients of political manipulation during a Wednesday hearing.
Russell Cameron, who is challenging Westfield Mayor Andy Cook in a May 3 Republican primary, accused Cook’s deputy mayor of improperly using his position and city resources to campaign for Cook’s reelection.
The dictionary defines “neighborhood” as “a district where people live.” That certainly defines Indianapolis …
A walk through the streets there showed a pattern of crumbling infrastructure, missing chunks of sidewalks, and boarded-up homes. When I asked a city official for the number of abandoned houses in this neighborhood, he answered, “between 300 and 450."
