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While military contractors scramble to protect big projects from Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ budgetary ax, Indianapolis engine-maker Rolls-Royce is sitting pretty. Rolls-Royce, which employs 4,300 in Indianapolis, is developing a key component for the Marine Corps’ version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, potentially a big winner under a sweeping overhaul of priorities Gates unveiled […]
In the future, a passenger boards a commuter train in Noblesville that minutes later stops near 56th Street and Keystone Avenue. Here, a semicircle of eco-friendly high-rises hovers above a grassy plaza bordered by canals. At the next stop, another new community has sprouted just east of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, along Fall Creek. Amid […]
There’s a smorgasbord available for small businesses in the federal stimulus. The trick is figuring out how to get a plate. Plenty of local experts are serving up access to the buffet. And some entrepreneurs are digging in. But others consider the stimulus warmed-over leftovers. “For high-tech, high-growth businesses of the 21st century, there’s nothing […]
Still stinging from the city’s loss of the giant Performance Racing Industry trade show in 2004, a group of local motorsports business advocates is racing to put on a competing event. Organizers of the upstart International Motorsports Industry Show are not being bashful about their intentions: They want the new show to eventually supplant PRI’s […]
As a (former fulltime) ink-stained wretch, witnessing the demise of the daily newspaper is heartbreaking. I can’t imagine a day without the “morning miracle” in my hands over a cup of coffee. Nonetheless, major metropolitan newspapers have disappeared (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rocky Mountain News), reduced circulation (The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are printed only […]
With enrollment surging in vocational schools around the country, Indiana Business College has launched an expansion into Ohio and likely into other states as well. And the Indianapolis-based for-profit school is changing its name-to Harrison College, with a nod toward two U.S. presidents with Hoosier ties. Executives of the privately owned college informed staff and […]
Last week, I made a presentation about social media to several hundred people at a Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheon. We talked about Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, LinkedIn, blogging and more. I didn’t answer the “how-to” question. I answered the “whether-to” question. With some important cautions, my answer was “yes.” A self-proclaimed “fogey […]
ChaCha Search Inc. co-founder Brad Bostic has stepped down as president of the human-assisted Internet search company, which is struggling to turn a profit in a dismal advertising climate, but he hasn’t left. “Brad is still engaged with the company as a director, co-founder and consultant,” said co-founder and CEO Scott Jones. There are no […]
Like a true “Hoosiers”-loving Hoosier, I always pick a No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. I root for the underdog. So when I heard local owners were taking over a shuttered Steak & Ale restaurant, I was cheering them on. And when we decided to review eateries […]
Trying to rein in spending when so many Hoosiers are hurting has put some hard choices before the General Assembly this year. But Indiana needs lawmakers to hang tough as they head toward the session’s finale April 29. At the top of their list of priorities should be building a solid two-year budget and salvaging […]
Scott Whitsitt puts so much effort into his recordings for the Indiana Reading and Information Service that they have a professional quality. He’ll record, edit and re-record his weekly rendition of Time magazine for two to three hours, far exceeding most volunteers’ booth time. “I’ve been a wannabe radio announcer for years,” Whitsitt said. Since […]
He went back and forth, but ultimately the mayor of Westfield decided to go with his gut. Mayor Andy Cook, the first to hold that title in the fast-growing Hamilton County suburb, settled on “Family Sports Capital of America.” He and his advisers had weighed “Family Sports Capital of the Midwest,” but eventually opted to […]
Like a true “Hoosiers”-loving Hoosier, I always pick a No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. I root for the underdog. So when I heard local owners were taking over a shuttered Steak & Ale restaurant, I was cheering them on. And when we decided to review eateries […]
Hoosiers identify many factors contributing to our state’s long-term economic difficulties. It is fashionable to blame our workers. It is easy to decry a lack of natural amenities: no mountains, no coral reefs. Our public schools are inferior and perhaps our higher education is overrated. Our taxes are too high but we have substandard government […]
