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Alcohol taxes would double only in Marion County – not the whole state – under a plan advanced by the Indiana Senate yesterday. The Senate made several changes to a bill aimed at rescuing the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, which expects to be $47 million short in its operation of the city’s professional sports stadiums […]
The Indiana Senate has approved a budget that would rely on federal economic stimulus money to boost school spending, but a top senator says the funding increase might be short lived. A new state revenue forecast expected Friday will give lawmakers a better idea of how much the state can spend over the next two […]
More than 50 speakers are expected to participate in a three-day conference about U.S.-China business relations that kicks off tomorrow in Indianapolis and finishes Thursday and Friday in Bloomington. Huang Ping, consul general for the People’s Republic of China in Chicago, Indiana University President Michael McRobbie and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard are among those scheduled […]
Mike Alley made lots of money running Fifth Third Bank’s central Indiana operations until he quit in 2002 to run his own investment firm, and he’s still making it pumping resources into entrepreneurial companies.
That perspective — of shifting from a…
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
The Indianapolis Cultural Trail yesterday announced major donations from the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation and Indiana Pacers. It also unveiled three public art works that will be exhibited in the Northeast Corridor stage of the trail, which is now under construction. The DeHaan foundation gave $250,000 and the Indiana Pacers $100,000 toward the Cultural Trail’s […]
Police say an Indianapolis man was shot in the head in a case of mistaken identity just before midnight in the 2300 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. Investigators say the woman who lives at that address heard someone on the porch and fired at the man because she thought he was trying […]
State senators today are expected to vote on a plan to bail out the city’s struggling Capitol Improvement Board. The proposal is similar to the one introduced yesterday by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard. Ballard wants the General Assembly to allow Marion County to raise alcohol and car-rental taxes. Fox 59 will have more at 10 […]
Lawrence Green, the man accused in the beating death of 3-year-old TaJanay Bailey in November 2007, entered a guilty plea yesterday. Green agreed to accept a 65-year plea agreement under the deal between prosecutors and defense lawyers. The victim’s mother, Charity Bailey, has already pleaded guilty to felony neglect charges.
A piston factory once owned by one of the founders of the National Basketball Association is closing down this year because of the economic downturn. It will mean the end of the Fort Wayne plant that as Zollner Piston once employed more than 1,200 people but now has just 38 production workers. The closure is […]
Organizers expect about 8,000 people to protest excessive government spending tomorrow at the Indiana Statehouse. The local “tea party” event, scheduled to coincide with the April 15 deadline to file tax returns, will be held along with hundreds of others across the country. Protestors are organizing tea parties in roughly 600 locations in all 50 […]
The Anderson Community School Board meets tonight to discuss ways to trim the budget as the district works to make up a $5 million deficit. At least three officials in the district office have opted for early retirement, including Superintendent Mikella Lowe. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the Wigwam Auditorium.
Bill Oesterle, co-founder and CEO of Indianapolis-based Angie’s List, has donated $1 million to Purdue University to create the school’s first endowed professorship in information technology, the university announced today. The professorship, named the Olga Oesterle England Professorship of Information Technology, will first be held by Gerry McCartney, Purdue’s chief information officer. Oesterle, a Purdue […]
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
United Way of Central Indiana announced this morning that it would provide $1.3 million to two local housing projects as part of Indianapolis’ Blueprint to End Homelessness campaign. A $1 million grant to the Julian Center for abused women will help construct 71 permanent housing units at 34th and Meridian streets. United Way also will […]
United Way of Central Indiana announced this morning that it would provide $1.3 million to two local housing projects as part of Indianapolis’ Blueprint to End Homelessness campaign. A $1 million grant to the Julian Center for abused women will help construct 71 permanent housing units at 34th and Meridian streets. In 2001, United Way […]
A piston factory once owned by one of the founders of the National Basketball Association is closing down this year because of the economic downturn. It will mean the end of the Fort Wayne plant that as Zollner Piston once employed more than 1,200 people but now has just 38 production workers. The closure is […]
Retail sales fell unexpectedly in March, delivering a possible setback to hopes that the economy’s steep slide could be bottoming out. The Commerce Department said today that retail sales dipped 1.1 percent in March. It was the biggest decline in three months and a much weaker showing than the 0.3-percent increase that analysts expected. A […]
Express Scripts Inc. stands to gain considerable negotiating clout from its $4.68 billion deal to buy the pharmacy benefits management businesses of health insurer WellPoint Inc., and experts say that could mean savings for customers buying prescription drugs. St. Louis-based Express Scripts said yesterday it planned to buy Indianapolis-based WellPoint’s NextRx subsidiaries in a cash-and-stock […]
