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Ron Rosenbaum at Slate.com seems think so.
“What always gets to me,” he writes, “is the self-congratulatory assumption on the part of puzzle people that their addiction to the useless habit somehow proves they are smarter or more literate than the…
EnerDel Inc.’s $100 million expansion, one of the biggest in the state this year, earmarks 277 of the 850 new positions for the Indianapolis area. The lithium-ion battery company announced this morning that it will add 217 jobs to the 100 positions at its headquarters at 8740 Hague Road on the far northeast side of […]
EnerDel, the Indianapolis company that’s developing lithium ion batteries for cars, plans to create 850 jobs across the state by 2012, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today. Some of the jobs will be at the company’s headquarters on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Other positions will be located in Noblesville and the rest will be at […]
The Indianapolis law firm socked by an $18 million jury verdict two years ago over the collapse of a health insurance trust has appealed to the state’s highest court. If Fillenwarth Dennerline Grothe & Towe can escape the verdict, the firm might be relieved of an agreement it struck with the Indiana Department of Insurance […]
Indianapolis Indians outfielder Andrew McCutchen is included in a baseball prospects feature in this week’s Sports Illustrated. The print version includes a photo of him shot by team photographer Bill Gentry.
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Workers were trying to figure out what to do next after the city’s compliance department issued a stop-work order this morning on the new Buffalo Wild Wings. The order threatens a $2,500 fine for any company or individual found in…
The Bob & Tom Show, the long-running morning radio show, will be shown on the WGN America network beginning Nov. 3, the show said today. WGN will broadcast highlights of the radio show from midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern Time. Locally, the program is being carried on WTTV-TV Channel 4. The show, which features comedy […]
A positive sign on the local arts scene (and we certainly could use those), is the launching of more professional arts organizations. Community theater is fine, but the more paying work there is for actors, directors, and designers, the better…
Tipton County officials have unanimously approved leasing Tipton County Hospital to Indianapolis-based Clarian Health for 35 years. Clarian has managed the hospital for 10 years in a relationship that feeds patients to the sprawling Clarian system and, for Tipton, offers medical expertise and muscle to negotiate with insurers. Under the agreement, the county will continue […]
Stuart Lowry was named by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard yesterday as director of Indy Parks and Recreation. Lowry replaces Joe Wynns, who resigned unexpectedly nearly a week ago after eight years on the job. Early this month, Wynns said he had been asked to cut $2.3 million from the department’s $17 million budget, although he […]
On-the-job injuries leading to death were lower last year than at any time since 1991, the first year the statistic was tracked, the Indiana Department of Labor said yesterday. The 127 fatalities were most heavily concentrated among truck drivers, farmers and construction workers, and 94 percent were male. The deaths occurred most frequently while the […]
Millennium Industries, an auto-parts maker in the northern Indiana town of Ligonier, plans to build an additional 30,000 square feet of production and warehouse space, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said yesterday. The expansion would create 170 jobs in addition to 250 existing positions. Millennium, which makes fuel rails and power-steering components, received $625,000 in […]
Parsons Corp., a Pasadena, Calif., company that is destroying the V-X nerve gas stored at the Newport Chemical Depot in western Indiana, has started closing down the operation as the three-year project nears completion. Parsons has informed the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will begin laying off 412 workers at the site in […]
Buffalo Wild Wings has responded to the city’s beef with its Washington Street façade by submitting a new plan showing the exact design it already constructed. The…
Ball State Universityâ??s entrepreneurship program has long been considered one of the stateâ??s crown jewels in
business academics.
Former funeral director Don Kuratko started the program before entrepreneurship was cool and pushed it to
national prominence. Real-world business types like the…
Plainfield distributor MD Logistics plans to expand its pharmaceutical warehouse and add 75 workers by 2012, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1 million project would add 15,000 square feet of cold storage. MD operates three sites in Plainfield totaling more than 750,000 square feet.
Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly and Co., will spend $300 million and an undisclosed “contingent consideration” to buy all rights to a popular dairy cow hormone and its sales and manufacturing operations from St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. Elanco has been selling the supplement, called Posilac, outside the United States for a decade. Now Elanco […]
Today marks the 175th birthday of our homegrown pres, Benjamin Harrison. The BH home at 1230 N. Delaware is celebrating with free tours today from 10-3:30.
I’m celebrating by trying to think of a list of Best Performance by an Actor…
Indiana University basketball coach Tom Crean hasn’t even coached his first game for the Hoosiers, and he’s already breaking records. Yesterday, Crean signed the richest coaching contract in IU history, a 10-year $23.6…
Escalade Inc., an Evansville-based sporting goods manufacturer, plans to close its final Evansville plant in an effort to restore profits and boost a sagging stock price. Table tennis production will be moved to Mexico beginning Sept. 5, causing 30 workers to lose their jobs, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. In February the company […]
