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One of Indiana’s pioneering life sciences companies is ailing badly. Bioanalytical Systems Inc. said last week it lost money for a fifth straight quarter as revenue plummeted. The West Lafayette-based company lost nearly $1.6 million in its first fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, a loss 10 times as large as it recorded in the same […]
The legions of fund-raisers colleges hired during the boom years have a new mission for these tough economic times: Go easy on the hard sell. Talk about financial aid, not shiny new buildings. If prospects can’t give now, lay the groundwork for when the economy recovers. Victoria Gorrell, the head fund-raiser at Kalamazoo College in […]
The Indiana Senate has passed a bill that would give taxpayers a break if the state’s surplus is at least 10 percent of the budget. Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels supports the proposal, and the GOP-led Senate approved it 34-16 yesterday. But don’t expect tax credits any time soon. Indiana is struggling to keep its budget […]
A bankruptcy judge yesterday tentatively approved Delphi Corp.’s request to stop paying for its salaried retirees’ health and life insurance, but he left the door open for some former employees to be excluded from the move. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain in Manhattan ruled that the auto parts supplier has a right to change the […]
Engine-maker Cummins Inc. plans to cut 985 employees worldwide by the end of this week, including 460 in Indiana. The Columbus-based company said last month it would cut “at least 800” by the end of February. The new reduction announced today includes 225 salaried and 235 hourly workers in Indiana. Earlier this month, Cummins offered […]
The Indiana Senate yesterday approved a bill that would revoke the business licenses of companies that repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. The “three-strikes” proposal would revoke business licenses from companies who knowingly hire illegal workers three times. The bill passed 37-13. Opponents of the legislation say immigration is a federal issue, and that the bill could […]
The Indiana Senate has approved a bill to eliminate local township advisory boards, but not eliminate township government completely as Gov. Mitch Daniels had proposed. The bill that passed yesterday 28-22 would eliminate three-member township boards that adopt the annual township budget and act as the township’s fiscal and legislative body. Those duties would be […]
Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick has done an about face. Just a few days after telling everyone how happy she is in the IRL, she now says she’d consider jumping to Formula One. Patrick has been targeted as one…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave Wall Street a double dose of reassurance today. He told Congress that the recession might end this year, and that regulators aren’t planning to nationalize banks. The news alleviated some of investors’ deepening worries about the economy and the banking system, and the Dow Jones industrial average, coming off […]
Simply Hospitality, the Indianapolis-based co-developer of event-planning software that was used to put on this year's Super Bowl, has completed its purchase of the product from Champaign, Ill.-based Riverwatcher Studios.
A stock analyst says Eli Lilly and Co’s potential blockbuster drug prasugrel could face another Food and Drug Administration delay, Bloomberg News reported this morning. The experimental blood thinner may not receive U.S. action until the second quarter after regulators said they made a “mistake” removing a critic of the drug from an advisory panel […]
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute will soon be searching for its third new president in five years. The engineering and science school announced yesterday that Gerald Jakubowski was resigning effective June 30, three years after he took the job. No reason for his departure was announced, and the school said its board of […]
About 170 Indiana National Guard soldiers will arrive back on Hoosier soil today after duty in Iraq. Danville’s 38th Military Police Co. spent the last 10 months training Iraqi police transition teams. Those teams then train Iraqi police. Family and friends will attend this afternoon’s welcome-home ceremony at Stout Field.
City Market business owners are inviting the public to celebrate Fat Tuesday with live music, some adjusted menu prices and a lot of beads. The Mardi Gras event runs all day today, with live music playing until 1:30 p.m. FOX 59 will recap today’s festivities at 10 p.m.
The Colts could release record-setting receiver Marvin Harrison as early as today. Harrison’s agent, Tom Condon, confirmed Harrison has asked to be let go, and that it will happen in the next day or so. The Colts would save about $6 million in salary-cap space by releasing the 36-year-old. The eight-time Pro Bowler has racked […]
WellPoint Inc.’s shares got a small boost this morning, along with the broader markets, as the Indianapolis-based health insurer predicted weak but positive growth for 2009. WellPoint CEO Angela Braly told investors in Indianapolis this morning that the health insurer’s profit per share would grow 1 percent to 3 percent this year. But WellPoint executives […]
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute will soon be searching for its third new president in five years. The engineering and science school announced yesterday that Gerald Jakubowski was resigning effective June 30, three years after he took the job. No reason for his departure was announced, and the school said its board of […]
WellPoint Inc.’s shares got a small boost this morning, along with the broader markets, as the Indianapolis-based health insurer predicted weak but positive growth for 2009. WellPoint CEO Angela Braly told investors in Indianapolis this morning that the health insurer’s profit per share would grow 1 percent to 3 percent this year. But WellPoint executives […]
A stock analyst says Eli Lilly and Co’s potential blockbuster drug prasugrel could face another Food and Drug Administration delay, Bloomberg News reported this morning. The experimental blood thinner may not receive U.S. action until the second quarter after regulators said they made a “mistake” removing a critic of the drug from an advisory panel […]
It’s difficult to say what is driving Marvin Harrison in his negotiations—or non-negotiations—with the Indianapolis Colts. Greed? Pride? Ego-centrism? Maybe all the above. Maybe none of the above. Harrison certainly isn’t saying. Even…
