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Roche has successfully turned a hostile takeover bid into a friendly one, winning over the board of Ventana Medical Systems Inc. by hiking the price it would pay by 19 percent. Swiss-based Roche, which operates its North American diagnostic division out of Indianapolis, would pay $3.4 billion under a merger agreement signed by the boards […]
Last year was a yawner for job creation in Indiana, according to new figures from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Only 5,800 jobs were added. The 0.2-percent increase was virtually nothing compared to the national economy, which grew nearly 1 percent in a year when the economy slowed. It also was the second year […]
A pair of local high-tech heavyweights are scheduled to speak today at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Bob Laikin, CEO of Plainfield-based wireless device distributor Brightpoint Inc., will visit the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Bloomington as a distinguished entrepreneur-in-residence. Laikin will speak at a faculty lunch, then spend the afternoon visiting […]
Emerson Motor Co. has laid off nearly a third of the workers at an electric motor plant in the southern Indiana town of Princeton, the St. Louis company said late last week. Fifty-two of the 170 employees were put on temporary layoff after the market softened, Emerson said. The plant makes motors for hospital beds […]
Board members of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin are willing to work with outside parties but have no plans to sell or merge the facility, the Daily Journal of Franklin reported today. In a statement, the board of the 149-bed, county-owned hospital asked Johnson County residents for patience as it evaluates its short- and long-term […]
If General Electric Co. follows through on its plan to close its Bloomington refrigerator plant, local not-for-profits are likely to feel pain. Employees at the sprawling facility donated $54,000 and the company gave $21,500 last year to the Monroe County United Way. That made GE the second-largest work place contributor, according to The Herald-Times of […]
Broad Ripple’s Naked Tchopstix is expanding its original location and adding another along 96th Street. A new bar is scheduled to open this week at the Broad Ripple sushi hotspot….
The new Honda Manufacturing of Indiana plant in Greensburg will make the Accord full-size car and Fit subcompact in addition to the Civic sedans already announced by the Japanese company, a research group predicts. In a report last week, the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said that the site would assemble the […]
Civic boosters in Delphi fear the town northeast of Lafayette will become just another bedroom community, so they’re fighting back. They want the town, population 2,977, to become more of a destination for shoppers and tourists, according to the Journal & Courier of Lafayette. Once a commercial hub on the Wabash and Erie Canal, Delphi […]
It isnâ??t often these days that we see deep, serious reporting on poverty that helps explain the problem
and makes us think.
In a recent interview, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne argued that the subject has been edged out of
news…
I had a busy A&E weekend, with the “Three Girls and Their Buddy” concert at Clowes Hall on Friday night (more on that later), the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s hot ticket “Rite of Spring” performance on Saturday (see previous blog entry…
Small businesses in the Muncie area are struggling to compete for employees against IBM and Sallie Mae now that the giants have opened locations in the region. Sallie Mae has hired 70 workers since opening a call center in Muncie in late 2006, and an IBM customer service center in Daleville has hired about 200 […]
While the rest of the state struggles to hold its own through the national housing downturn, the Columbus area is thriving. Bartholomew County, where Columbus is the seat, saw the median house price rise 8.7 percent, to $139,000, in the third quarter, according to The Republic, the city’s daily newspaper. Nationally, the median price fell […]
Westfield hopes to draw business farther north New development could reduce residential tax rates Judge and Ging Jones moved to Westfield more than a decade ago to escape the congestion and crowds of Carmel. They wanted to live in a safe, friendly community with good schools where they could leave their doors unlocked during the […]
Spotlight on Hamilton County Named for Alexander Hamilton, a member of the Continental Congress and a framer of the U.S. Constitution 5 LARGEST CITIES/TOWNS population Fishers ………………………………………61,840 Carmel ………………………………………60,570 Noblesville ………………………………….40,115 Westfield ……………………………………13,444 Cicero …………………………………………4,400 5 LARGEST EMPLOYERS employees Sallie Mae…………………………………….2,300 Conseco Inc. …………………………………2,300 Marsh Supermarkets Inc………………….1,650 Resort Condominiums International ….1,200 EDS Corp. …………………………………….1,200 COUNTY […]
JOHNSON COUNTY Cable swap for the new year Cable customers have seen little change in service since Comcast Cable took over Insight Cablevision in Johnson County Jan. 1. But change is on the way. Philadelphia-based Comcast now handles cable television, Internet and digital phone service in most of Johnson County. This spring, Comcast and New […]
Judge to settle mayoral dispute MADISON COUNTY – A judge in New Castle has been appointed to oversee a challenge brought by five Anderson residents over the eligibility of Kris Ockomon to serve as the city’s new mayor. Ockomon, a Democrat, upset incumbent Kevin Smith, a Republican, in the November election. The five plaintiffs filed […]
TIPPECANOE COUNTY Purdue wants tax abatement to expand research park The Purdue Research Foundation has received preliminary approval for tax abatement on its research park that would save the foundation $1.5 million in taxes. The abatement for the Purdue Research Park was approved Jan. 7 by the West Lafayette Economic Development Commission. It likely will […]
BOONE COUNTY Hotel, water park planned Two projects, including a hotel and water park complex, are poised to join Duke Realty Corp.’s Anson development at the Interstate 65 and State Road 334 interchange. An affiliate of locally based Street Corner Group LLC expects construction to begin this year on the $50 million water park/hotel project […]
SHELBY COUNTY Shelby County leaders still support Intelliplex In spite of the controversy this year about Intelliplex, the technology park on the north ern edge of Shelbyville, the Shelby County commissioners wavered not a bit in approving an annual grant to the park. The commissioners voted 2-0 in December to give Intelliplex $125,000 in Economic […]
