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Winter storms that crippled parts of the Midwest recently prompted Emmis Communications Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan to again call on cell phone manufacturers to install radio receivers in their units. If cell phones had FM receivers, Smulyan argued, radio stations could have served an even wider audience searching for updates on the weather, road conditions […]
NBC sold out its 69-spot advertising inventory for yesterday’s Super Bowl, pushing total ad revenue for the event to a record $206 million – not bad in the middle of a recession. The Super Bowl is a premier advertising event with an U.S. audience of 100 million viewers, many of whom watch closely during game […]
Two unemployed Hoosiers have earned $1 million for creating the Super Bowl’s top-ranked commercial. Joe and Dave Herbert of Batesville won the third-annual Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” challenge and earned high marks from viewers. Their ad features a man predicting free Doritos for his co-workers, then breaking a vending machine with a crystal ball. […]
Thousands of southern Indiana residents are still without power following last week’s winter storm. Vectren reports 20,000 outages as of last night, mostly in the Evansville area. More than 100,000 customers were left without electricity as a result of the storm. Vectren officials say most power should be restored by Thursday, though isolated outages could […]
A plan from the mayor of Franklin to rejuvenate the downtown area includes raising by 3 or 4 feet several blocks that were heavily damaged by flooding last year. Mayor Fred Paris acknowledges that the plan is nowhere near final, but says by elevating the southwest part of downtown, the city would create a scenic […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels today recognized three Indiana Department of Transportation workers who found more than $100,000 in an old tire along Interstate 70. The workers were picking up trash east of Indianapolis two weeks ago and found a wad of bills in an abandoned tire. They reported the discovery to state police, who believe the […]
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. said today it has offered voluntary retirement packages to 700 hourly employees in Indiana as it looks to trim as many as 350 more jobs. Cummins, which reports fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow, has suffered from a drop in demand for its diesel engines and related products. Since October, it has taken […]
There’s no doubt that Gov. Mitch Daniels, lawmakers and school officials will cash the check when Indiana receives its share of a federal stimulus package making its way through Congress. Daniels and legislators began this session expecting to have little new money to spend over the next two years, but now the state and its […]
Home sales in central Indiana continue to slide, declining 18 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same period the previous year, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors reported today. Units sold in the 13 counties tracked by the trade group dropped to 4,966 in the three months ended Dec. 31. All counties showed […]
Check out this rendering of plans for the vacant northeast corner of 22nd and Delaware streets. The two-story project would be built to…
Midwestern cities donâ??t attract a lot of immigrants, and Indianapolis is no exception.
The weather is uncomfortable and the region has a reputation for close-mindedness â?? not the kind of place
where newcomers want to sink roots.
A recent blog…
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. said today that it has offered voluntary retirement packages to about 700 hourly employees in southern Indiana. The company will accept as many as 350 voluntary retirement applications, and most of the affected employees are expected to leave their jobs by March 1. “The demand for our engines and related […]
Former Indiana University coach Bob Knight is contemplating coming out of retirement. Multiple sources said if the University of Georgia offers Knight its vacant men’s basketball coaching job, Knight would accept.
“I have never…
A top administrator at the University of Southern Indiana has been picked as the school’s new president. The university Board of Trustees on Saturday appointed Linda L.M. Bennett to replace school President H. Ray Hoops on July 1. Hoops is retiring after 15 years as president of the nearly 10,000-student school in Evansville. Bennett has […]
Centaur is lobbying the Indiana General Assembly to let it transfer 500 slots from its Hoosier Park horse track in Anderson
to the Fort Wayne area.
Even as the economy spirals downward, no one gives a thought to bringing some kind of fiscal sanity to the overall enterprise of sports.
Patients are seeking help with their doctors, records and referrals as the health care system grows increasingly complex.
Business owners along the fabled Gasoline Alley north of Rockville Road think a proposal to close a north-south road linking
them to the front door of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will have devastating effects.
How are the economic development professionals in each Indiana county supposed to do their jobs when they don’t get quality statistics like those provided to professional sports managers and coaches?
The message that Steve Dwyer, recently retired chief operating officer of Rolls-Royce North America, is taking to central
Indiana educators is that they still need to train students for careers in manufacturing.
