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The U.S. Department of Justice has started an inquiry into its internal practices after the law firm of former Attorney General John Ashcroft was named to oversee business practices of Warsaw-based prosthetics maker Zimmer Holdings Inc. Current Attorney General Michael Mukasey and some aides fear the department appears to be in a conflict of interest, […]
Work on a $530 million automotive transmission plant near Tipton has ground to a halt over a dispute between its partners, Chrysler LLC and German transmission maker Getrag. Construction stopped Dec. 21, ostensibly for a holiday break, but the work hasn’t resumed, according the Kokomo Tribune. Without naming its sources, the newspaper reported that the […]
Real estate giant Colliers Turley Martin Tucker expects a 2008 slowdown in new office and industrial construction in Indianapolis as market demand catches up to a rapidly expanding supply. Retail construction likely will continue its quick pace, buoyed by the addition of mega-fitness chains and the local expansion of Dunkin Donuts. But tightening credit markets […]
By popular demand, here are a few updates on new development projects: The Maxwell is coming out of the ground on schedule, but sales have been slow so far,…
Some online traders made $100 for every $1 they bet on Hillary Clinton’s winning the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. Clinton’s chances of taking the pivotal state were so battered after she placed second to Barack Obama in Iowa that Obama’s odds had skyrocketed to 99 percent. One poll showed Obama leading Clinton […]
Questions posed by U.S. Supreme Court justices today suggest they might be reluctant to overturn Indianaâ??s
voter ID law.
Reports from the proceedings quote Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a swing vote on the court, as asking why
the court should be…
Emmis Communications Corp. Chairman Jeff Smulyan suggested this morning that the radio industry has hit rock bottom, but that there is reason for optimism in 2008. Today, Emmis officials announced a $2.1 million loss on revenue of $91.7 million for the quarter ended Nov. 30. Though revenue was up slightly from $91.2 million for the […]
Few would object, on the one end, to a Norman Rockwell painting being hung in an art gallery window.
Few, at the other end, would approve of a city park screening of a Jenna Jameson skin flick.
But where is the line…
The soft economy might feel like a recession, but isn’t, and conditions won’t deteriorate into a recession. That’s the take of 62 economists surveyed by Bloomberg from Jan. 3-8. Their median estimate predicts the economy will grow 1.5 percent through June, the slowest since the final three quarters of 2001. One of the economists, Mickey […]
WellPoint Inc. has appointed Brian A. Sassi as CEO of its consumer business unit, which includes the individual, senior and Medicaid arms of the Indianapolis-based health insurer’s operations. By Feb. 1, Sassi will replace Joan Herman, who announced in October that she planned to retire by mid-2008. Sassi was president of Blue Cross of California, […]
A sluggish radio market continued to plague Emmis Communications Corp., which today reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $2.1 million. The locally based media company showed a $946,000 profit a year earlier. Revenue in the three months ended Nov. 30 was $91.7 million, up slightly from $91.2 million last year. Radio revenue fell 3.2 percent, […]
Nearly 103,000 visitors took in the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s recently closed exhibit “Roman Art from the Louvre,” setting an attendance record for a traveling exhibit at the IMA. The collection of Roman artifacts opened Sept. 23 and closed Jan. 6, logging 102,980 visits and eclipsing the previous record holder, “Gifts to the Tsars.” That […]
An insurance company headquartered in Fort Wayne has refused to offer a property policy to a Michigan church
that belongs to a denomination that backs gay rights.
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co., says the risk of insuring West Adrian United Church of…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved once-daily use of Cialis, the anti-impotence pill made by Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis drugmaker announced today. The once-daily version is a lower dose designed to allow men to have sex at any time between doses. It already has been available in parts of Europe. Since […]
The Music Mill, a north-side restaurant, bar and concert venue, has temporarily closed its restaurant for a renovation. The box office remains open at the 82nd Street facility.
Seven nightclub in Broad Ripple…
Superman leaps tall buildings in a single bound (note: If he can fly, why does he bother leaping? Just asking).
Dane Nash took his own enormous leap—of faith—when he decided to put his Superman and Batman memorabilia collection—including a full-sized Batmobile…
South Bend-based GramTel USA Inc. has been acquired by Cincinnati Bell Inc. for about $20 million. GramTel, which was a unit of Chicago-based Jordan Industries Inc., provides disaster recovery, data backup and related services. It expects to post revenue of about $5 million for 2007, a 73-percent increase from 2006. In early December, Cincinnati Bell […]
Georgia-based Great Dane Trailers has laid off 130 workers at its plant in Brazil in west-central Indiana, reports The Tribune-Star in Terre Haute. The company said a downturn in the housing and automotive markets prompted the layoffs at the plant, which employs about 1,000. Great Dane officials expect the market to turn around in the […]
Miller Plating & Finishing LLC in Evansville closed at the end of the year after a struggle with bankruptcy, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. About 90 workers lost jobs at the company, which focused on plating and polishing metal. Miller sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and then filed Chapter 7, placing its assets […]
Your lawyer probably isnâ??t complaining. Neither would your doctor, Realtor or accountant.
In all the talk about reforming property taxes, hardly a word has been said about shifting some of the
property tax burden to services.
That means some of the most…
