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Former Nuvo editor and columnist Harrison Ullman has been dead nearly nine years, but his axiom that no worse legislature exists than the one on Capitol Avenue seems particularly apt during this term.
One reason is the extraordinary resistance…
The expected closure of two area automotive supply plants in May will result in the loss of more than 200 jobs. Sumco Inc. notified the state Friday that it would close its metal-plating operation in Indianapolis on Girls School Road on May 12, if a buyer for the plant cannot be found. The closure would […]
Butler University is raising its tuition by 3.5 percent in what school officials say is the smallest increase since 1975. The Indianapolis school is also raising room-and-board rates by 3.5 percent. Those increases will make the private school’s tuition $28,460 for next school year, with an average room-and-board rate of $9,250. Butler President Bobby Fong […]
The Estridge Cos., a well-known Carmel-based residential construction firm, is teaming with popular TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” to build a home for an Indianapolis-area family. Representatives from Estridge and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard were scheduled to discuss the partnership this morning at a press conference at the City-County Building. The Indianapolis episode of […]
Seeking to counter a chorus of unhappy Republicans and nervous Wall Street investors, President Barack Obama and his economic team are taking a cheerier tone while making billions in federal loans available to the nation’s struggling small businesses. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today plan to announce a broad package that includes reduced small-business […]
There’s a saying at the Indiana Statehouse that nothing is dead until lawmakers gavel out and go home. There’s some truth to that, but it would probably take extreme political mastery to revive legislation this year to overhaul the local government system in Indiana. It’s on its death bed, and the buzzards are circling above. […]
A new report scores Indiana’s state budget process as the second worst in the nation largely because the governor doesn’t have a line-item veto and there’s no requirement for a balanced budget. Indiana scored just 45 points out of a possible 100 and ranked ahead of only New Hampshire in the 2009 Index of State […]
Indiana leaders need to focus on the increasing gap between the average wage in Indiana and in the nation.
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.
Township officials provide many services for the community, molded by back-yard input, which enhances quality of life.
Pathway Productions, purveyors of some of the highest-profile documentaries to come out of the Indianapolis area in the last
decade, is on the brink of extinction.
Indiana’s $86M incentive package to establish the Subaru plant in Lafayette was initially controversial.
Without fresh capital â?? or loosened debt obligations â?? Carmel-based Conseco could find itself in bankruptcy or looking
for a buyer or both.
Indiana residents should be thanking Herb and Mel Simon for their multitude of contributions to the state, instead of bashing
them.
This week I’m going to be
your own, personal Pollyanna and try to cheer you up with some good news.
At Purdue University, the quest for a new missile and spacecraft fuel has
brought together an oil-and-vinegar mix of rocket scientists and food scientists.
Four Indiana businesses have joined more than 100 major companies in an open letter to President Barack Obama, outlining what
they believe are weaknesses of patent reform legislation now before Congress and voicing concern about its potential economic
impact.
Now that Medicare is calling for all doctors it deals with to use electronic medical records by 2015, the trend of physicians’
merging with hospitals or larger groups could hasten.
It may be time for our Washington lawmakers to take action on developing legislation regarding Web sites linking to one another.
