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The struggling economy is sending more people to libraries to check out books and DVDs for free and avoid costly rentals or purchases, library officials say. Last year, the number of items checked out at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library rose 6 percent, boosting its annual borrowing to more than 1.1 million items for the […]
A central Indiana county is demanding that Chrysler LLC return $5.5 million in county-issued bonds and repay at least $4.5 million it set aside for a sprawling transmission plant that a Chrysler supplier stopped building last year. Tipton County’s commissioners said yesterday in a statement prepared by an Indianapolis law firm that Chrysler sent them […]
Famed Bloomington watering hole Nick’s English Hut has been opening its doors to the under-21 crowd for more than a year. And it has the state’s blessing to do so. Indiana has relaxed its alcohol laws in recent years to permit more bar/restaurants – once off limits to those under 21 – to open their […]
An interesting piece in the LA Times asks a range of high-profile folks (including, at the extremes, Bill Maher and Ann Coulter) what they would do if they ran the NEA.
Some interesting thoughts (Warning: If you click on the story,…
Investors’ despair about financial companies and the recession sent the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone today: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. The Dow fell 4.2 percent in today’s trading, dropping 299 points to close at 6,763.29. The Dow’s descent has been swift. It’s taken only 14 sessions […]
Existing home sales in central Indiana slid 16 percent for the three-month period ending Jan. 31, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors reported today. Compared with the same time period the previous year, units sold in the 13 counties tracked by the trade group dropped to 4,458 from 5,336. The median sale price fell 13 […]
Four Indiana companies are among Fortune magazine’s top 363 most-admired companies worldwide. Although none cracked Fortune’s top 50, Indianapolis-based Brightpoint Inc., Simon Property Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc., as well as Columbus-based Cummins Inc., helped push Indiana into a tie for 19th place among states. California led all states with 38 companies on the list. […]
Indianapolis-based Elli Lilly and Co. and New York-based partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have failed to win U.S. approval to sell Erbitux as a first-line treatment for head and neck cancers. Regulators questioned differences in American and European versions of the drug, which is already approved to treat colon tumors and certain drug-resistant head-and-neck malignancies. The […]
Conseco Inc. CEO Jim Prieur expressed faith today that his company can answer its auditor’s concerns and avoid receiving an opinion that could roil its debt financing. “We’re very confident that we’ll be able to resolve the issue and provide more information,” Priuer told an investor during a conference call this morning. “[The auditors] are […]
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard is expected to answer questions tonight at Carmel’s city council meeting about the escalating cost of the massive Keystone Avenue project. The chair of Hamilton County’s Democratic Party is asking the mayor for full disclosure. The improvements, which include plans for six new roundabouts, originally were projected to cost less than […]
South-side commuters have a new option to get to downtown Indianapolis. IndyGo launched its new Greenwood route this morning. The bus leaves from the Meijer store off State Road 135 and arrives at several spots downtown. One-way fair is $3.
Despite the recession, the owners of some Indiana auto service shops say business is pretty good – apparently because many people are too cash-strapped to buy new cars. As the recession forces many people to hang onto older cars rather than buying new ones, it means more trips to the service center to keep those […]
Conseco Inc. CEO Jim Prieur expressed faith today that his company can answer its auditor’s concerns and avoid receiving an opinion that could roil its debt financing. “We’re very confident that we’ll be able to resolve the issue and provide more information,” Priuer told an investor during a conference call this morning. “[The auditors] are […]
An Indianapolis police officer ended up in Methodist Hospital with minor injuries after a hit-and-run accident early this morning in the 1800 block of West Washington Street. Police say the driver who hit the officer ditched his car at the scene and ran off.ISTEP+ testing starting todayToday is the first day of Indiana Statewide Testing […]
The Indianapolis Housing Agency has received five bids from teams interested in developing new residential or commercial space on land surrounding two prominent public housing towers. The agency had asked for proposals for land adjacent to the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at 555 Massachusetts Ave. and the 15-story Lugar Tower at 901 Fort Wayne […]
The Indy Racing League’s new TV partner is getting ready to launch a full-throttle promotional offensive. The Comcast Cable-owned Versus TV network is launching a promotional campaign March 7 that will not only be…
Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, CEO of Riley Hospital for Children and executive associate dean for research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has accepted the top leadership position at the University of Michigan Health System. Pescovitz, 52, has been named executive vice president for medical affairs at the university and CEO of the U-M […]
The Indianapolis Housing Agency has received five bids from teams interested in developing new residential or commercial space on land surrounding two prominent public housing towers. The agency had asked for proposals for land adjacent to the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at 555 Massachusetts Ave. and the 15-story Lugar Tower at 901 Fort Wayne […]
After posting a $1 billion loss last year, Carmel-based Conseco Inc.’s future is in jeopardy. The losses have caused the life insurer’s debt as a percentage of its total capital to rise sharply, nearly to a level that would violate an agreement with its lenders. Conseco’s auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said it might include a “going-concern” warning […]
