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The not-for-profit will use the money to fund existing programs, such as the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor
Leadership Program, and begin new ones.
If Congress passes health care reform, more people will become like Juli Erhart-Graves, whose family spends nearly 18 percent
of its income on health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs.
Little Red Door Cancer Agency is committed to serving people with cancer in the greater Indianapolis area and surrounding
counties who lack financial means or adequate insurance.
This week’s issue features stories about two local businessmen. Both are native Hoosiers in their late 40s who showed
entrepreneurial instincts at a young age. But the similarities end there.
en years ago, Dodson Group CEO Jim Dodson came to IBJ with an idea to launch a program that would recognize
best practices in the not-for-profit community and reward organizations that practiced them. And not just with
a pat on the back—with hard cash.
The state’s utility consumer agency is opposing Duke Energy’s request to have customers pay $121 million to
study where to inject underground the carbon dioxide to be produced by its Edwardsport plant.
An elegant Old Northside mansion known as the Yellow Rose Inn has a new owner with plans to discontinue a bed-and-breakfast
operation.
A Ford Motor Co. subsidiary will start cutting its local work force next year, but won’t close its east-side plant
for good until late 2011.
The president of Hansen & Horn Group Inc. admitted in court Thursday that the troubled home builder is insolvent and agreed
to have a receiver appointed to operate the company.
Scientists have discovered how to grow pork in a lab. Now, what to do with all that corn?
It was with great interest that I read Morton Marcus’ [Nov. 30] column encouraging us to spend responsibly this holiday
season, and to “give a check to your local adult literacy program.” It was with added delight when I read Theresa
Rhodes’ column on the same page suggesting that readers consider volunteering by “helping an adult learn to read.
It’s vitally important to have innovative, competitive and successful
school options available to attract and retain middle-class families in the neighborhoods.
My grandson, Nathaniel, recently had his first birthday. Soon thereafter, I took him to a doughnut shop to teach
him the facts of life. If he is to become an adult Hoosier, there are things he must learn.
E-mail marketing provider ExactTarget has in a short span landed what may be a record amount of venture funding for a private
company here—$75 million since October. And that’s on top of the $69.9 million it received in May from three
venture firms on the coasts.
The Anderson school board will vote Tuesday on a plan that’s dividing schools and the community. Board members have two options.
They can close one high school and merge all the students into a single building, or they can keep both high schools open
and combine them with middle schools. Supporters on both sides have created signs, banners and T-shirts, and started petition
drives to make their point. School board members say something has to be done to solve a budget crunch.
A former state representative avoided further jail time by pleading guilty on Wednesday to misrepresenting himself as a lawmaker.
Dennie Oxley Jr., last year’s Democratic candidate for Indiana lieutenant governor, was found intoxicated at a gas station
in June. He was not a state representative at the time, but tried to tell police he had immunity from arrest because he was
a lawmaker. He received a one-year suspended sentence.
Indiana State Police are trying to determine how a wrong-way driver got onto Interstate 70 Thursday morning. The driver died
after crashing into four other vehicles on the westbound side of the road near the McCarty Street ramp. One other person was
injured in the crash. The extent of those injuries has not been released. The highway was closed for hours, but is now open.
Fox 59 will have more at 4 p.m.
A lawsuit aimed at stopping invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan could bring some forms of shipping to a grinding halt.
So far, Tiger Woods’ sponsors are standing by him. Some of those sponsors are running high profile ads with pretty brazen
(some would say careless) wording.
