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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay hopes to sign Peyton Manning to a contract extension after the Super Bowl that would make
him the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL, he says. Manning’s contract is set to expire after the 2010 season, but Irsay
doesn’t want to wait. A new deal could keep Manning, 33, in Indianapolis for the rest of his career. Fox59 will have more
at 4 p.m.
Larry Glasscock will step down March 1 as WellPoint CEO Angela Braly takes over leadership of the company’s board. She replaced
Glasscock as CEO on June 1, 2007.
There are some ominous signs that the 2011 NFL season and 2012 Super Bowl are in serious jeopardy. So when are Mayor Greg
Ballard and host committee leaders going to start asking pointed questions of league chiefs?
Shirley Caesar and CeCe Winans are among the performers set for “Gospelfest,” Feb. 6 at Clowes Hall. Details
here.
IU Opera presents “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Feb. 5-13 at IU Musical Arts
Center, Bloomington. Details here.
Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy join forces Feb. 6 at Conseco Fieldhouse.
Details here.
The Eiteljorg Museum presents "Pistols: Dazzling Firearms," Feb. 6-April
18. Details here.
Feb. 5 to March 12
ComedySportz Theatre
This group of Friday-night knuckleheads returns
with its latest revue of all-new sketch comedy material. We’ll have to wait and see what that means but, in the meantime,
my
revue of the talented company’s first show, staged just over a year ago. Details on the new show
.
Feb. 9-28
Indiana Repertory Theatre
Charlyne Woodard has had recurring roles on “ER”
and “Law and Order: SVU,” but she made a theatrical name for herself as author and performer of a series of one-person
plays, including “Neat,” “In Real Life” and her first, “Pretty Fire.” For this new production
of “Pretty Fire,” the words are still Woodard’s, but they will be given life by the endearing Millicent
Wright.
The telling of five stories from Woodard’s childhood, “Pretty Fire” promises to be funny,
harrowing and moving. Both the LA Drama Critics and the NAACP named it best play of the year when it was originally staged.
Here, it will be the first of three full-length, one-person plays being presented at the IRT under the banner “Going
Solo.” Details here.
Feb. 7
Your TV set
I fully realize that, on a Sunday, you want to get out of the house. But
there’s an interesting pair of musical acts that will be appearing on TV that I thought I should bring to your attention.
First, Carrie Underwood will be performing a one-song set consisting of nothing but “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Then, after an approximately 1-1/2 hour break (apparently, the band needs a lot of time to set up), “The Who”
will take the stage. I hope something interesting also will happen during that in-between time and after The Who’s performance.
Details here.
Most of Indiana is expected to wear Colts blue on Super Bowl Sunday, but loyalties are split near the Purdue campus in West
Lafayette.
A revitalization project that helped Indianapolis land the 2012 Super Bowl is beginning to take
shape. Organizers hope to build and rehab about 300 housing units, including the Jefferson Apartments "homeownership
incubator."
Federal prosecutors say the men were part of a scheme in which straw deals were set up to obtain inflated mortgages on more
than 100 Indianapolis houses.
The first half of a short session will close Wednesday, meaning bills must have passed out of either the House or Senate to
stay alive. Legislation regarding unemployment taxes and township-government reform easily met that deadline.
PNC, which operates dozens of bank branches in the Indianapolis area under the National City name, is selling its global investment servicing business to Bank of New York Mellon Corp. for $2.3 billion.
Larry Glasscock will retire as chairman of WellPoint Inc.’s board, the Indianapolis-based health insurer said early Wednesday.
Company CEO Angela Braly will assume the position March 1.
Purdue University officials have unveiled a new energy conservation plan that aims to save the school as much as $2 million
a year.
The added exemptions include bars, taverns, tobacco shops and fraternal clubs such as American Legion posts.
The Indiana House has passed a bill that would ban texting or sending e-mails while driving. The House voted 95-3 for the
bill Tuesday and sent it to the Senate for consideration.
As congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to save health reform legislation, they face a persistent obstacle:
super-majorities of employers and employees are convinced reform will raise their costs.
An item in the Jan. 13 Health Care & Reform Weekly should have said Meritain Health, which administers a health plan
for the city of Evansville, is based in Buffalo, N.Y.
An item in the Jan. 27 Health Care & Reform Weekly should
have said Julia Mullholland and Lori Shufflebarger were appointed to the board of directors for the Hendricks Regional Health
Foundation, not the board of the hospital system itself.
The federal Medicare program will conduct a demonstration project using the Indianapolis-based Indiana Health Information
Exchange to examine the impact of a multi-payer quality reporting and pay-for-performance incentives. Medicare will
feed its patient data into IHIE’s Quality Health First program, which combines data from health insurers with patient
medical records to help physicians track the quality of their care. Already, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Indiana is offering bonus payments based on how well doctors do at managing their patients’ health in key areas.
The Medicare program will allow IHIE to share in a portion of Medicare savings achieved once quality of care and cost objectives
are met.
St. Vincent Health made it official on Feb. 1. Washington County Memorial Hospital
in Salem is now St. Vincent Salem Hospital. The 25-bed facility will cost Indianapolis-based St. Vincent $3.5 million
over five years in a lease-to-buy agreement. St. Vincent executives have been managing the hospital for 18 months,
including during its bankruptcy reorganization, which began in June. The Salem hospital is the 18th in St. Vincent’s
statewide network.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute has awarded Teri Belecky-Adams,
professor of developmental biology at IUPUI’s School of Science, a $1.25 million grant to study astrocytes
in the optic nerve. Astrocytes are cells that make it difficult for the brain to heal and to overcome injury or disease. By
understanding what kind of factors regulate certain gene expressions in astrocyte cells in the optic nerve, scientists hope
to gain a deeper knowledge of brain injuries and the brain’s response to disease and injury. The study is a collaborative
effort between the IU Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, scientists within the IU School of Medicine,
and researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
Biologics LLC, which makes mobile labs and manufacturing
buildings for biotech firms, will locate its headquarters in Brownsburg, and plans to create at least 50 jobs by 2013. The
company plans to invest $14.6 million in machinery and equipment and lease 7,500 square feet in the Brownsburg
Motorsports Park before constructing a manufacturing plant in 2011. The Indiana Economic Development
Corp. offered Biologics up to $550,000 in tax credits to support the company’s job creation. Hendricks
County and the town of Brownsburg will consider additional property tax abatements.
AMPATH,
a joint partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine, Moi University School
of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, has received another $5 million USAID grant to
expand health care services in western Kenya. AMPATH, which stands for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare,
received a $60 million grant in 2007 from USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development. More than 100,000
Kenyans receive HIV/AIDS treatment through USAID-AMPATH’s system of community health workers in 23 full-time clinics
and 23 satellite clinic locations.
New Jersey-based Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed on the sale
of its specialty pharmaceutical business, including a plant in Indianapolis, to Italian-owned Sigma-Tau Group. The deal
could be worth up to $300 million. Locally, Enzon’s plant at 6925 Guion Road makes drugs to treat leukemia, meningitis,
fungal infections and the “bubble boy disease” immune disorder. The plant employs about 100 workers, and the manufacturing
operations will remain in Indianapolis, Sigma Tau spokesman Marc Tewey said.
Fourth-quarter profit fell 19 percent,
to $69 million, at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences as the company spent more on research and marketing
expenses related to its seed business ramp-up. Revenue rose 17 percent, to $1.1 billion, from the same period in 2008. For
all of 2009, Dow Agro, a subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co., reported revenue of $4.5 billion,
down from $4.6 billion in 2008. Annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization dropped
to $577 million from $892 million.
