To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search
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.
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.
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.
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.
Building owners or developers use the Indiana Industrial Recovery Income Tax Credit to reduce their costs in restoring or rehabilitating dinosaur industrial structures.
“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.”
Another year, another parade of editorials, opinion pieces and studies that call for Indiana to join its neighbors in banning smoking in all workplaces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The latest round of snow started falling in central Indiana at about 4 a.m. Thursday—just in time for the morning rush hour. A winter weather advisory remains in effect until early Friday. Drivers should look out for slippery roads, reduced visibility and hazardous travel conditions. Accumulation is expected to average 2 inches to 4 inches across the northern half of the Indianapolis area and 3 inches to 6 inches farther south. The heaviest snowfall is expected Thursday afternoon. Winds could cause blowing and drifting snow.
Richard Young rules that the $66 million verdict against FedEx was rational and “not monstrously excessive.”
Creating great companies isn’t easy. Neither is it easy for some entrepreneurs to keep their marriages together.
A number of acquisitions last year disclosed no sale price. In the Indianapolis area, those deals ranged from OneAmerica’s acquisition of benefits firm McCready and Keene Inc. to Herb Simon’s pickup of the Kirkus Reviews, a venerable journal of prepublication book reviews. • Bloomington Hospital was merged into Clarian Health on Jan. 1. • Indianapolis-based […]
Simon Property Group’s acquisition of Prime Outlets was the largest by an Indiana company in 2010.
Conditions are ripe for a barrage of mergers and acquisitions to take place this year.
A former China-based executive of Allison Transmission has agreed to drop a lawsuit that claimed the company won business by bribing foreign officials. But it's likely that the firm still must deal with scrutiny from the Department of Justice, according to one legal expert.
Alecia DeCoudreaux, the top attorney for Eli Lilly and Co.’s U.S. unit and an active community volunteer, will leave to become president of Mills College in California on July 1.
