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The Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts have long been thought to be competitors. They compete with each other for fans, sponsors, public and private support for their respective playing venues among other things in…
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Pretending to like classical music?
Many an inbox has found an e-mailed link to the website Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com over the last few years.
I’m mentioning it here, though, because it’s most recent entry–#108 if you are keeping score–takes an open shot at classical music, claiming among other things…
Columbus Inn, historic B&B, shuttered
Doors to the Columbus Inn bed-and-breakfast have been chained and padlocked, according to The Republic of Columbus. The 113-year-old, Romanesque building once housed city hall and now is on the National Register of Historic Places. The newspaper was not able to reach the owners for comment.
Cripe expands with Evansville office
Cripe Architects + Engineers, the Indianapolis-based architectural firm, is adding an office in Evansville in addition to its satellite locations in Carmel and Fort Wayne, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. Cripe has 75 employees. Chairman and CEO Alex D. Oak, a Native American, brings the firm minority-owned status.
Wheldon races to Panther
We didn’t have to wait long to find out where Dan Wheldon would land. Just more than an hour after news broke that Dario Franchitti would be replacing him at Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Wheldon announced he will be driving…
Franchitti returns to IRL
Former Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League series champion Dario Franchitti is returning to the open-wheel circuit next year to drive for his former NASCAR boss Chip Ganassi.
Ganassi folded the NASCAR team that…
Calumet refineries unscathed by hurricane
The three Louisiana oil refineries operated by Calumet Specialty Products LLP weren’t damaged by Hurricane Gustav, the Indianapolis company said today. All three are near Shreveport, which is in the northwestern corner of Louisiana and 350 miles from the coast. “We’re not impacted at all,” said spokeswoman Liz Swaine. As is the case with most […]
Less zing in Daniels’ second term?
Mitch Daniels ran for governor four years ago promising to shake things up, and it would be hard to argue
that he hasnâ??t followed through.
Daylight saving time passed. Cigarette taxes were raised to fund health insurance. Property taxes were reformed.
What…
Indians hit 8-year attendance high
With the books just closed on the Indianapolis Indians’ 2008 season, the team’s front office is already looking forward to next season. And why not? This team is hot. Red hot. And I’m…
Tennessee firm buys ice cream operation
Land-O-Sun Dairies LLC of Johnston City, Tenn., has acquired Driggs Farms of Indiana LLC, a bankrupt ice cream manufacturer in the northeastern Indiana town of Decatur. Land-O-Sun will continue operating the plant, which employs 200 in a Decatur industrial park, according to The Decatur Daily Democrat. The transition is expected to take place in September.
Elanco home base moving to life sciences park
Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Co., will move into a new 135,000-square-foot headquarters in Greenfield by the spring of 2010, the company announced today. Elanco’s new offices will go up on the northwest corner of State Road 9 and I-70, where Indianapolis developer Browning Investments Inc. is building a 52-acre life […]
New life for Whole Foods plan?
An Atlanta firm is hoping to revive the development of a Whole Foods grocery at the northwest corner of 86th Street and Keystone Avenue. Dominion Capital, which took over the site…
Ballard not starting with art
For the first time in its 22 year history, the season-kickoff Start with Art luncheon (being held this Thursday) won’t include a visit from the Indianapolis’ mayor.
Greg Ballard, as has been reported elsewhere, will be at the Republican National Convention.
The…
You-review-it Monday
I don’t expect there to be many visitors here today–which I hope means you are enjoying the long weekend.
Still, whether you are checking in Monday or Tuesday (or beyond), let me know what you’ve seen, read or experienced this weekend.
As for…
First-ever driving festival could put French Lick on the map of exotic vehicles
Organizers of the inaugural World Class Driving Festival at the West Baden Springs Hotel Sept. 3-7 hope to put Indiana
on the map when it comes to exotic cars and potentially lucrative business opportunities surrounding the accompanying lifestyle.
EYE ON THE PIE
EYE ON THE PIE What projects should public finance? You name it, Rusty Knale will argue against it. We’re at the delicatessen. He buys the hot pastrami on rye. I’m going for the chopped liver on pumpernickel. “I’m wondering,” I say, “if the new Honda plant at Greensburg is going to do more for the people of Indiana than Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy.” “No,” he answers quickly. “Remember that Dean Martin song, ‘Memories are made of this’? How many…
Re-entry key in city’s plot to fight crime
Re-entry key in city’s plot to fight crime Mayor makes push, hires director to help more ex-convicts find work Makeba Averitte spent more than seven years incarcerated in Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma prisons paying for the robbery he committed as a young man with few prospects. Since his release in 2004, the 32-year-old has obtained a driver’s license and insurance on his automobile, not to mention a bit more wisdom. But what eludes him most-even more so now as a…
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Marriage has some economic consequences This month marks my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. And, at the risk of being labeled a hopeless unromantic, I thought I might reflect on some of the economic consequences of marriage. I’ll begin with taxes. Until 1969, when my parents celebrated their 11th anniversary, the federal income tax had no marriage penalty. In fact, from its inception in 1913 until then, married couples enjoyed a modest tax advantage (two deductions on the same…
RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY
RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY Laptop hell: Air travel can bounce, bungle data Travel may broaden the mind, but it’s hell on laptops. If your laptop suffers some kind of death-dealing blow, it’ll probably be on the road. Air travel is the worst. You’re required during security screening to pull your laptop out of its snug little protective cover and submit it to the tender mercies of the Transportation Security Administration’s conveyors, X-ray machines and employees. Then there’s the jostling scramble to…
Carmel startup wades into Florida hurricane market
Carmel startup wades into Florida hurricane market Firm pioneers product to cover insurance deductibles The turbulent winds that hit the property-casualty insurance market after the destructive Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 have blown over Indiana with hardly a bent weather vane. But that hasn’t stopped a new Carmel company from trying to make a buck helping Florida homeowners and businesses handle their now-staggering insurance costs. This month, Citon Group Inc. started marketing its new breed of insurance-designed to…