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A new presenting organization for Indy Jazz Fest hopes to strike the right note with a summer music festival that has been on a financial roller coaster since its founding 10 years ago. The Indy Jazz Fest Corp. – a partnership of the Jazz Kitchen nightclub and restaurant, the Owl Studios downtown recording company and […]
The University of Indianapolis has added five trustees to its board, including former Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson. Since losing his bid for a third term as mayor in 2007, Peterson has worked as a resident fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and as chairman of the Mind Trust, an education not-for-profit he co-founded in […]
It may sound like a nice problem for states – figuring out how to spend the billions in infrastructure funding they’ll receive as part of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. But the task is more complicated than it seems, as state officials try to set priorities while managing competing pressures from communities, watchdog groups […]
A newspaper serving the south side of Indianapolis will live on after all. Roughly one month after Indianapolis Star parent Gannett Co. stopped printing the Spotlight – a stalwart of the community for 70 years – the Southsider Voice has emerged to take its place. The weekly paper may be new, but its founders are […]
Union members who took part in weekend rallies across Indiana mixed complaints about the nation’s recent job losses with calls for consumers to “Buy American.” The workers rallied Saturday as part of union-sponsored “Rebuild America” events that came one day after Congress passed a $787 billion economic stimulus package that includes a “Buy American” clause. […]
Indiana’s recent stretch of mild winter weather has been a welcome break from the cold for most Hoosiers, but not for the state’s maple syrup makers. The warm conditions have slowed the flow of sap from maple trees tapped at two Vigo County parks as part of a February ritual to collect sap to be […]
Elkhart County is getting some jobs for a change, instead of losing them. Office chair manufacturer Izzy plans to expand its plant north of Middlebury in north-central Indiana, creating 85 new jobs over the next two years and boosting its annual payroll by $3.8 million, local officials said Saturday. “This announcement comes as a breath […]
Indiana lawmakers came into this legislative session knowing that trying to boost the state’s sagging economy and drafting a new state budget in tight fiscal times would be the dominant issues. That’s mostly been the case so far, and an expected influx of billions of federal dollars should enhance efforts by Gov. Mitch Daniels and […]
This week, emptying the notebook on recent work at the ISO, the Phoenix and the IRT.
GM workers must decide by March 24 whether to take a buyout, but the lack of jobs due to the recession coupled with the cost of health care makes their decision especially difficult.
Some local officials wrestling with the Capital Improvement Board’s $37 million deficit think part of the profit made by the Indianapolis Indians could be used to narrow that deficit, but Indian officials balk at that idea because they say they’ve already paid more than their share.
Financially strapped Dow Chemical Co. acknowledges it may sell Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC, the ag-chemicals-and-biotech
firm that’s one of the biggest jewels in the city’s life sciences crown.
After a surprisingly slow month of January, the pace of legislative action picked up considerably during the first two weeks
of February.
It’s the season for bailouts—banks, businesses, capital improvement boards are all standing on street corners shaking
empty Burger King cups at passing taxpayers.
A recent spate of lawsuits, filed by a who’s who of Indianapolis businessmen, exposes cracks in Tim Durham’s veneer of opulence.
City engineers and consultants are fine-tuning plans to build a colossal tunnel to temporarily store water and raw sewage that now shoots into local waterways during rain storms.
Although family foundations may grant as little as $50,000 in a year, these foundations wield influence over other philanthropists, and one advocate says they could help guide the spending of billions of economic stimulus money.
My dream application for a cell phone is to use it to locate a person in a crowd.
After much debate, the U.S. House and Senate have come together on a stimulus package. Whether it will work remains to be seen. And the long-term impact of spending nearly $800 billion is a big concern.
Indianapolis-area architects are missing out on a wealth of outsourced design work for construction projects.
