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For 18 years, Barney Levengood has held one of the toughest and most important jobs in the city. He oversees the operation of the Indiana Convention Center, Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium as executive director of the Capital Improvement Board. He’s also become one of the state’s highest-paid public employees. Levengood, 54, earns a […]
Clarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want to turn 1,500 or more doctors into employees under a new group called the Indiana Clinic. Bringing so many physicians together from all specialties could allow them to improve quality, reduce costs and perhaps boost Clarian’s central Indiana market share. It also is likely to […]
I am having coffee with Herman Hardhed, chief tax analyst for the Independent caucus of the Indiana General Assembly. I want his take on the departure of that august body without passing a budget for the coming biennium. “Herman,” I say, “the highest annual rate of inflation since the end of World War II was […]
When I moved to southeastern Hamilton County eight years ago, it was largely a culinary wasteland. Sure, my husband and I found a couple of good local eateries and a bar or two with decent food, but it didn’t take long for us-and our out-of-town-guests-to grow weary of the limited options. “Sahm’s? Again?” So we […]
This week, art in the wind and an original musical Seeing still images of George Rickey’s stainless steel work, shining like flamboyant cousins of the “2001: A Space Odyssey” monolith, you might easily write them off as cold. Maybe even redundant and uninteresting. It’s a given that photos don’t do justice to most outstanding works […]
When I moved to southeastern Hamilton County eight years ago, it was largely a culinary wasteland. Sure, my husband and I found a couple of good local eateries and a bar or two with decent food, but it didn’t take long for us-and our out-of-townguests-to grow weary of the limited options. “Sahm’s? Again?” So we […]
As I drove to work May 12, I listened as local talk-show radio host, WXNT-AM 1430’s Abdul Hakim-Shabazz seized on a blog report that the owner of the National Hockey League Vancouver Canucks was considering a bid to purchase the Indiana Pacers and move them to the Canadian city. There was nothing to confirm that […]
The proprietor of a planned new pizza joint called Za in Broad Ripple, Michael Keenan, says he has enlisted an all-star…
A staple of professional services, the billable hour, is beginning to erode. Law firms increasingly are being
asked to shoot a set price for a specific service, and now the movement is spreading to advertising, as
Coca-Cola announced…
Even on a fledgling cable channel, the events surrounding the Indianapolis 500 continue to be an attraction—though I’m sure the Indy Racing League’s new TV partner was hoping for better. Pole Day qualifications…
Carmel Community Players, a volunteer theater founded in 1993, has announced an ambitious season of all Pulitzer-Prize-winning
shows — even though a chunk of its funding was shot down by the Carmel Support the Arts Fund and its
performance…
Couple of pizza-related nuggets:
A new pizza restaurant called ZA is planned for the former Slinky women’s clothing store near 62nd Street and College Avenue in Broad Ripple. Plans call for the restaurant…
Taking science from the laboratory to the commercial market takes too much time and is littered with potential pitfalls along the way. That’s the message Bill Cook, one of the state’s most successful businessmen, delivered this morning at the fourth and final event of the 2008-09 Indiana Life Science Collaboration Conference Series at IUPUI. Cook […]
Severe weather swept through central Indiana last night, causing downed power lines, flooding and accidents. Thousands of homes and businesses were without power this morning, with Marion County hit hardest. Multiple weather-related collisions disrupted the morning commute and some vehicles were swept away as drivers tried to cross flooded roads.
Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter said during a speech today in Washington that he opposes the public-plan option at the center of President Barack Obama’s health care reform principles. He also warned that the “comparative-effectiveness” research of medical treatments, which received vast funding in Obama’s February stimulus bill, could go wrong if it’s […]
Severe weather should be out of the Indianapolis area in time for today’s action at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Indy 500 practice was slated to rev at noon. Admission is $5 and children 5 and under get in free.
