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WellPoint salaries are ill-gotten

I own and manage a small business. WellPoint is our health insurance carrier. I have an employee, makes good money. He is in excellent health but he is diabetic. WellPoint won’t insure him!

FEIGENBAUM: Education money helped land key Democratic votes

As both House Speaker Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, and House Republican Leader Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, see it, this is definitely a "Republican-flavored" budget. Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels laid the framework, and legislators from both sides of the aisle largely abided by his bottom lines of spending, state agency cuts and surplus.

Global citizenship is our reality

[In his June 22 column, Bruce Hetrick asked,] "Is global citizenship ‘intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous?’" This question, reflective of Newt Gingrich’s recent statement declaring himself not "a citizen of the world" elicited personal incredulousness.

Indianapolis 500 movie racing toward big screen

A locally born initiative to make a movie about the first Indianapolis 500 has cleared a major obstacle to getting its project to big screens nationwide by May 2011—in time for the race’s centennial.

Cats, dogs just too ordinary for exotic-animal veterinarian

Clad in iguana-patterned medical scrubs, Angela Lennox moves quickly around the clinic laboratory, administering barium to
a ferret and ordering a guinea pig X-ray. From there, she moves to an exam room, taking blood from an unruly bird and diagnosing
an injured pet duck—all in the span of about 30 minutes.

Minority suppliers diversifying into life sciences

The Indiana Minority Supplier Development Council has made life sciences companies its latest target—part of an even larger effort to attract minorities to the burgeoning life sciences industry under
way on a national scale.

Carson vs. Chrysler, round one

U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-Indianapolis, is taking on General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. in the name of crash victims.

EDITORIAL: Leadership void stymied special legislative session

The legislative session that concluded June 30 with passage of a two-year budget left a bad taste in our mouths. For starters,
legislators lacked the courage to tackle local government reform—even though cash-strapped units of government
desperately need the millions of dollars in savings they would generate. In short, they put political cronyism ahead of the
interests of the state.

Innovation is focus of tech summit

The high holy day of Indiana’s technology industry is getting a new theme this year. The TechPoint Tech Summit will this year be known as the TechPoint Innovation Summit, Sept. 28-29 at the Indiana Convention Center.

DINING: Backward-named eatery, forward-thinking fusion

Search the Web for Naisa and you may come up with the North American International Auto Show or the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Neither has anything to do with the new Naisa Pan-Asian Cafe (1025 Virginia Ave., 602-3708), where the name comes from simply reversing the letters in the word Asian.

MARCUS: Budget made by rudderless Legislature

If we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use
tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives.

You-review-it Monday

I spent much of the weekend participating in panel discussions, leading a pub trivia game, assisting a charity auction, and playing games with my son, all at the InConjunction convention. (Particularly popular: The card games Fluxx and Castle.) Didn’t make it…

IPL parent plans 200-tower Indiana wind farm-WEB ONLY

The parent company of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. is planning a wind farm with 200 or more towers that could become the state’s largest generator of the alternative energy. AES Corp. plans to build the wind turbines in a 75,000-acre area along the Clinton-Tipton county line north of Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Star reported yesterday. […]

Pro-Sunday alcohol sales group renews effort-WEB ONLY

The special session of the Indiana General Assembly is over, but it’s not too early to think about next year. That’s the strategy of retailers who want to get rid of Indiana’s ban on Sunday carryout alcohol sales. The group known as Hoosiers for Beverage Choices is asking customers at more than 1,000 retail outlets […]

Budget includes pilot program for virtual schools-WEB ONLY

The new Indiana budget passed by legislators this week includes a pilot program for virtual charter schools, which provide more than half of a child’s instruction online. The program will allow 200 students to attend virtual schools next year and 500 students the following year. The project will focus on children with medical disabilities and […]

Cummins reopening plant; Meridian closing one-WEB ONLY

Cummins Inc. is recalling 400 laid-off workers as it resumes production at a Columbus factory, while nearly 300 people have lost their jobs as an auto parts company idled a plant in nearby Shelbyville. Cummins is preparing to resume production of the Dodge Ram engine at its Columbus MidRange Engine Plant with one shift beginning […]

EYE ON THE PIE: Budget made by rudderless Legislature-WEB ONLY

If we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives. In some states, changes in the level of the budget are driven by the percent change in […]