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Anti-smoking advocates like to push the image of servers forced to work in a smoke-filled bar because they have no choice. Sorry my friends, in real life the facts tend to lead otherwise.
A spate of office openings and an acquisition have helped catapult Barnes & Thornburg LLP into the upper echelon of the nation’s
largest law firms, at a time when the slumbering economy has forced most big firms to cut staff.
In its Nov. 2 issue, IBJ published a Bloomington reader’s Viewpoint regarding the new terminal at Indianapolis
International Airport. It was both uninformed and misleading.
Not every county in Indiana is like every other county. This is important to understand (particularly if you are a state
legislator) because we cannot assume one remedy is appropriate for all ills statewide.
As a participant in the Spirit and Place Festival that took place in Indianapolis Nov. 6-15, I was invited to share
a personal story of how an ordinary space was infused with special meaning for me. This is my story.
Local advocates of high-speed rail are understandably disappointed that the Indiana Department of Transportation has dropped
the Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati corridor from its application for federal rail funds, but the logic
behind doing so seems sound.
A three-game winning streak has ticket scalpers and Pacers fans smiling–for now. New outlook could send attendance skyward.
The $7.8 million medical office building in McCordsville will allow the hospital to tap patients with private insurance.
It seems like just yesterday that Matt Painter was playing for Purdue University basketball. Now he’s the Boilers’ coach, and he has emerged from
the long shadow of his mentor and predecessor, Gene Keady.
A source at Indianapolis Motor Speedway said IMS laid off 40 employees Wednesday, mostly from its human resources department,
in a cost-saving move.
Noble Roman’s Inc. sells and services franchises for non-traditional and co-branded food service operations under the trade name Noble Roman’s Pizza.
Next month, parking at IUPUI will get even tougher. That’s when demolition of the old Larue Carter Hospital starts to make
room for the new Wishard hospital. IUPUI will lose about 500 parking spaces on campus. Then next spring, IUPUI will lose 800
more spaces when the Wishard project moves into a new phase. IUPUI plans to build several parking garages over the next few
years, including one with 1,300 spaces thatâ??ll open next fall.
Two pizza delivery drivers were robbed at gunpoint in the same Lawrence neighborhood two days apart this week. In one case,
a driver said she was hit in the head and robbed of $80 and a carload of pizzas. Ashley Reed said she was robbed by four to
six men in their late teens or early 20s on Teacup Way. Lawrence police detectives think the robbers have been phoning in
orders and waiting for the drivers.
The CEO of Lucas Oil Stadium’s South Carolina-based catering company said he will tour the facility to make sure food-service
issues are resolved. Centerplate Inc. CEO Des Hague said he wants a transparent investigation and is coming to Indianapolis
to make sure the problems at the stadium are cleaned up. The Marion County Health Department has issued dozens of citations
and thousands of dollars in fines over the past year to Centerplate. Health inspectors have reported mice droppings, pests
and/or rodents, and food that’s unsafe or in unsound condition. Fox 59 will have more at 4 p.m.
A summer advertising campaign launched by the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association helped produce more visitors
and dollars for central Indiana, even though the organization spent less this year marketing the region.
Bloomington and Monroe County officials have declined to include aspects of the I-69 project in their transportation improvement
plan.
Indiana foreclosure filings were down only 1.5 percent in October from the previous month, but have fallen a whopping 18.5 percent from October 2008.
The Batesville-based maker of hospital equipment reported profit of $26.4 million, or 42 cents per share, in the period ended
Sept. 30.
Work to repair and renovate the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis is taking longer than expected.