21st Century Fund pockets a payoff from sale
The state’s principal fund investing in high-tech companies has reached a milestone—for the first time recouping all the money it granted an emerging company, and then some.
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SKARBECK: Big banks still face issues over soured mortgages
The U.S. banking system continues on its path toward healing—with many thanks to the ongoing generosity of U.S. taxpayers.
HICKS: Earmarks need overhaul, but they aren’t entirely bad
Our influential senior senator, Richard Lugar, and 6th District congressman, Mike Pence, disagree on an outright ban on earmarks. This is a rare case in which the differing concerns of both men are right.
Analyst says spurned Simon still has plenty of potential
Simon Property Group Inc. used multibillion-dollar buyouts to become the nation’s largest public real estate company. So should investors be worried its last two acquisition bids have gone bust?
PROXY CORNER: Fortune Industries Inc.
Indianapolis-based Fortune Industries Inc. is a professional employer organization to small and mid-sized businesses in 48 states.
NAI Olympia vets join brokerage startup Alliance
If Alliance grows as fast as projected, it could break into the city’s top-10 largest commercial real estate brokerage companies for 2011, based on IBJ’s Book of Lists.
FEIGENBAUM: Daniels experiences pushback even from Republicans
Assorted issues advanced by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels are confronting political pushback—from his Republican legislative majority.
Union backer has vested interest
The reason [Teresa] Meredith is so gung-ho regarding her union stance is she has so much to lose: 18 years into her profession, vice president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, her pension and benefits.
Should teachers be unionized?
[In response to Teresa Meredith’s Jan. 10 column in Forefront] I would like to know, if collective bargaining has all of those benefits, why are our public schools performing so badly that a great percentage of the students do not graduate?
Criticism of IEDC was off-point
Professor [Morton] Marcus’ warning about the perceived under-appreciation of local economic development organizations [in his Jan. 10 column] places a spotlight on the importance of these groups and those who lead them.
Children need broad education
I applaud Bruce Hetrick’s column (Jan. 10, “Why this public-school baby fears school reform”) for its keen observations about the value of education in the arts and humanities.
COX: Shrinking government can increase costs
Legislation will likely be introduced in the Indiana General Assembly to abolish township governments and consolidate their functions into counties. As in the past, the proponents claim this would save money for taxpayers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
California judge bars Conseco Life from boosting rates
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Wednesday that Carmel-based Conseco Life Insurance Co. may not follow through with a plan to raise policy rates for more than 50,000 mostly elderly policyholders.
MARCUS: A good bill benefits dinosaur buildings
Building owners or developers use the Indiana Industrial Recovery Income Tax Credit to reduce their costs in restoring or rehabilitating dinosaur industrial structures.
MAURER: This is a broker’s tale worth reading
“Twelve years after I popped out, I learned to sell. During the next three, I began to write. Fifty years later, I discovered how to kill.” Thus begins the journal of investment adviser Jack Chap, protagonist in John Guy’s novel “Middle Man, a Broker’s Tale.”
EDITORIAL: Time for mayor to clear the air, back smoking ban
Another year, another parade of editorials, opinion pieces and studies that call for Indiana to join its neighbors in banning smoking in all workplaces.
UPDATE: Demand for distribution services drives firm’s growth
Indianapolis logistics firm Backhaul Direct LLC plans to invest $1.7 million to grow its downtown operation and add nearly 325 jobs by 2015 as demand for its distribution services grows.
State lawmakers consider repealing alcohol ID bill
An Indiana law that requires all people—regardless of age—to show identification when buying alcohol has caused headaches for some shoppers, but liquor store representatives are urging lawmakers not to repeal it.
Father arrested in death of 1-month-old
Police arrested Emmanuel Rodriguez-Serrano on murder charges Wednesday, the day after authorities found his infant daughter dead in an apartment on Racquet Ball Drive. Authorities were called to the apartment just after 1 p.m. Tuesday and found 1-month-old Evelyn Jasmine Ricardo dead inside. An autopsy determined the infant died as a result of blunt-force trauma.
Papa John’s driver robbed at gunpoint
Police are on the lookout for two armed men who robbed a pizza delivery driver just north of downtown Wednesday night. The Papa John's driver told police he was delivering four pizzas to a caller in the Kenwood Apartment complex near 23rd and Illinois streets at about 10 p.m. when he was approached by two gun-wielding men who demanded cash. The suspects, who were wearing ski masks and dressed in all black, then ran west from the apartment complex with an undisclosed amount of money.