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Making mental health treatment a community priority, planting gardens at libraries and publicizing community health stats are ideas readers suggested for improving health in central Indiana.
Rather than “smart city” being used as a buzzword to generate grant dollars by businesses that need to win city contracts, what if the concept actually delivered on the promise of improving lives?
What’s at stake is both the health and well-being of our community and the economic prosperity of our workforce.
Incentivizing companies to pay for education, creating an Indiana program like AmeriCorps and mandatory preschool are among the ideas that readers submitted related to education and technology.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed companies to mandate the flu and other vaccines, and has also indicated they can require COVID-19 vaccines.
Indianapolis-based Perez Realty Group acquired the 113-acre retail property on Dec. 18 for a yet-undisclosed price.
Pfizer’s vaccine was the first to gain approval from the Food and Drug Administration and initial shipments went to states last week.
In a video posted to Twitter, the president called the $600 checks authorized by the bill “ridiculously low” and complained about a list of provisions that he described as “wasteful spending and much more.”
HAND Inc.’s planned Cumberland Cottages could bring 11 affordable, for rent homes to the southwest corner of 141st Street and Cumberland Road. The estimated $2.5 million needs a rezone and state funding to be built by the end of 2022.
Indiana received 55,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, and another 39,000 doses on Monday, which is a fraction of the state’s needs, officials say.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Justice Department, says the nation’s largest retailer did not properly screen prescriptions at its 5,000 pharmacies. The agency is seeking civil penalties that could total billions of dollars.
Indiana health officials have erred in reporting the state’s COVID-19 positivity rate since the beginning of the pandemic due to a problem with the way it was computed, resulting in a lower rate than would be accurate, officials said Tuesday.
The company, which opened a location in downtown Indianapolis in 2016, describes its business as being in a “mothballed period” and said that it anticipates reopening venues “once it is safe to do so.”
The Fishers Health Department says that it specifically is trying to “curb New Year’s Eve gatherings” as the city deals with record numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Although lawmakers of both parties long agreed that the practice amounted to abusive billing, a lobbying war between doctors and insurers had thwarted a compromise.
Meanwhile, statewide hospitalizations due to COVID-19 inched up to 3,064 on Monday from 2,967 on Sunday. The high mark was 3,460 set on Nov. 30.
Already, the project is having an impact on existing businesses, including Village Home Furniture and Clocks, whose owner said it plans to close the store this month, rather than move.
Missouri-based StorageMart has more than 200 facilities and has opened or acquired several locations during the pandemic. Industry watchers say the industry segment thrives on death, displacement, divorce and disaster.
The U.S. Department of Labor alleged that BSN Sports discriminated against thousands of people who applied for jobs at the company’s Indianapolis production facility. The firm’s settlement is not an admission of guilt.
Congress has moved to phase out a class of potent planet-warming chemicals and provide billions of dollars for renewable energy and efforts to suck carbon from the atmosphere.
