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My letter is in response to Kathleen McLaughlin’s excellent [Dec. 28] article, “Charity mergers scarce.” While
all of the comments shared are well-considered, the elephant in the room is nonprofit closures.
Doctors are pushing again to strengthen their hands in contract negotiations with health insurers, especially market leader
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
The Indianapolis Colts’ decision to pull the plug on a potential undefeated season was made for one reason: “What
must we do to win Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Feb. 7?”
A dozen heavyweight firms have responded to Indianapolis’ proposal to privatize Lucas Oil Stadium, the Indiana Convention Center and, perhaps, Conseco Fieldhouse. IBJ reviewed all 12 responses, which the city released today, after a public records request. As sports industry experts expected and IBJ reported first on the front page of its Nov. 23rd edition, […]
Our legislators are reconvening in Indianapolis to “do the people’s business.” What they do actually
is send tremors though the fiscal foundations of our state. Households and businesses cannot figure out our tax structure
or our spending priorities.
The board of the museum’s private foundation is expected to confirm Thomas A. King’s appointment Thursday afternoon
Each January, I reflect on a few of the prior year’s columns. I’m always curious about the topics and
people I have written about over the course of the year. I hope you are, too.
The company’s return to profitability under CEO Sardar Biglari can’t be overlooked. But neither can strong signals
that Steak n Shake’s CEO is using the venerable restaurant chain as a cash machine to finance his
bigger goals.
Zimmer Holdings Inc. develops, manufactures
and markets orthopedic and dental reconstructive implants, spinal implants, trauma products and other related surgical products.
Indy Racing League cars will be outfitted with a new gear, this one allowing them to go backwards. It will help teams that
wipe out on road courses and take pressure off tracks’ safety crews.
Indianapolis police are investigating the city’s second and third homicides of the new year. The first shooting happened
Thursday morning at Chuck’s Mobile Home Park in the 5200 block of Massachusetts Avenue on the north side. Officers responding
to reports of gunshots at about 9 a.m. found a male victim they say is in his mid-40s. No suspect was found. A half-hour later
officers responded to another fatal shooting on the north side, this one near 46th Street and Haverford Avenue. Police say
Gerald Alexander was shot in the head after answering a knock at the front door.
Snowfall snarled traffic on central Indiana highways Thursday morning as police reported numerous crashes. Dozens of school
districts across the state canceled classes as the National Weather Service issuing winter storm warnings or advisories for
the entire state. Snow is expected to continue throughout the day. State police say a semitrailer driver was critically injured
in a crash on northbound Interstate 65 near Columbus. Police also closed sections of I-65 near Franklin and Lebanon and I-70
near Greenfield at times because of crashes and slide-offs. Numerous slide-offs also were reported on I-69 near Anderson.
A driver was reported killed in a crash with a school bus on U.S. 231 near Delphi. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Wanda Robertson was sentenced to eight years in prison, with four years suspended, after pleading guilty Wednesday.
The long-term outlook for health care reform is uncertain, but many analysts are expecting big health insurers like Indianapolis-based
WellPoint to benefit in 2010.
John J. Greisch was most recently president of international operations at Baxter International Inc.
MedTech, whose flagship campus is located on the city’s northeast side, provides degrees in biotechnology and nursing, as
well as in other health-care related programs.
Programs similar to the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship will begin this year in Ohio and Michigan and up to two
other states.
The House could also advance a bill Thursday that would tighten lobbying and ethics rules in the General Assembly.
Indiana University must cut $58.9 million from its budget over the remainder of the state’s two-year budget cycle.
The only merged city-county government in the state is in Indianapolis, which underwent its consolidation in the early 1970s.
