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Allstate 400 renewals ‘way off’

Troubles this year for the Indy Racing League—and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—that led to layoffs last Friday, started with a NASCAR event.

“We started seeing a downturn in revenue with the Allstate 400,” said…

Home sales off by nearly one-third in November

November was another bleak month for the Indianapolis-area housing market, with the number of units sold tumbling 29 percent compared with a year earlier. Sales in the 13-county Indianapolis area totaled 1,448 for the month, compared with 2,028 in November 2007, according to the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors. The latest month was weak by […]

You-review-it Monday

I like to think of myself as a realist.

So I know that this is unlikely to have been the busiest weekend for arts activity. Still, there may be some of you who warmed themselves by the light of the ISO,…

Businesses on MLK give revitalization another shot

The newly organized MLK Business Revitalization Association aims to bring new life to the neighborhood west of downtown by
uniting area business owners behind a common goal — cleaning up the community to attract other entrepreneurs.

Struggling City Market loses subsidy

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has notified the City Market that the financially strapped city is phasing out its subsidies
to the historic downtown fixture, which account for one-quarter of the market’s nearly $1 million budget.

Something to think about as a new year dawns

I think about the economic crisis, the housing crisis, the climate crisis, the energy crisis, the automotive crisis, the Middle
East crisis, the education crisis, the college affordability crisis and all the other crises — real, imagined and manufactured
— and I wonder whether they’ll drive us to the precipice, or even the apocalypse, and whether we’ll change at the last
minute, and, should we survive, whether we’ll remember what we want to forget or forget what we want to remember.

Sports vision ripe for renewal

If the city is serious about continuing to use amateur athletics as an economic tool, more collaboration among the university,
city leaders and sports organizations is clearly needed.

Arts advocates seek money from Indy government

The Arts Council of Indianapolis is leading talks with city councilors, Deputy Mayor Nick Weber and the chiefs of top cultural
organizations about how to create a bigger pot of revenue for the arts.

A&E

This week, thoughts on three holiday shows-and one in-your-face alternative.

Distribution holds promise for Central Indiana

A new report shows that, despite a sluggish national economy, the Indianapolis area should continue to attract industrial
businesses and distribution centers next year.

Have you checked your PSA lately?

I’m here to plead with all men and the people who love them: Don’t be lazy like I was about getting annual PSA checks
and physical exams.