PARKER: Governors past provide critical lessons for 2012 election
You can’t successfully govern Indiana with a divide-and-conquer approach. We’re nice people, and we don’t like to be yelled at.
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You can’t successfully govern Indiana with a divide-and-conquer approach. We’re nice people, and we don’t like to be yelled at.
The root of Mitch Daniels’ success can be boiled down to an adherence to three simple concepts: lower taxes, a smaller government and more personal freedom.
If you voted for any Marion County judges in the last several years, you wasted your time. And the county wasted whatever it costs to put the judicial candidates on the ballot.
In the next 10 to 20 years, it will be impossible to tout our region as a world-class center of innovation and entrepreneurship without meaningfully addressing transit.
Despite outperforming not just the Midwest, but America as a whole, long-term challenges facing Marion County put the region at risk.
Medical office likely will be the strongest sector, followed by apartments.
Police say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a woman at a Beech Grove apartment complex. Braxton Vaughn, 25, the adoptive brother of the victim, turned himself in to police Wednesday morning and told them he killed Rachel Wurster, 25, at the Willow Glen Apartments near 9th Avenue and Thompson Road. He was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder.
A Hamilton County teen was killed in a single-car crash at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday. Police say the vehicle left the road for unknown reasons and hit a tree near 256th Street and Lacy Road in Cicero. The driver, a male, died on the scene and a male passenger was transported to Methodist Hospital with minor injuries. Friends said the driver, whose name has not been disclosed, was a 19-year-old Purdue University student and 2010 graduate of Hamilton Heights High School.
An earthquake rattled parts of central Indiana Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 3.8 magnitude quake happened at 7:55 a.m. and was centered about five miles south of Greentown in Howard County. That’s about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis. No damage or injuries were reported.
Booming growth, rising middle classes are attracting investors.
Applications dropped by 34,000, to 388,000, the lowest number since the week of July 12, 2008. The level of applications has either fallen or remained unchanged in five of the past six weeks.
Omnicity Corp. is a half-year behind in payments to a Muncie lender and faces several lawsuits over unpaid bills from companies it acquired.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has appointed new judges in Boone and Shelby counties.
Indiana economic-development officials are in the beginning stages of forming a marketing initiative—dubbed the Indiana Center for Complex Operations, or ICCO—to market the state’s budding defense sector.
The stock market’s recovery has lifted endowments that provide major support to local arts groups, but managers are keeping the conservative attitude they were forced to adopt two years ago.
-Kort Builders has started construction of a 2,000-square-foot office for Decatur Vein Clinic at 105 South Raceway Road, Suite 135.
-Kort Builders has completed a 2,000-square-foot retail space for Younique Botique at 9254 U.S. 36, Avon.
-Kort Builders has completed a 3,000-square-foot restaurant space for Ale Emporium at 8617 Allisonville Road.
Butch Stanifer has joined Bridge Real Estate Advisors Inc.’s office advisory team as senior adviser.
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