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In 1957, then-Sen. John Kennedy published “Profiles in Courage,” chronicling stories of senators who (in Kennedy’s rendition) risked careers to do the right thing in the face of political pressure. Eleanor Roosevelt, who thought JFK more a show horse than a work horse, remarked that Kennedy himself needed “less profile and more courage.”
Reaching the publicly traded level might not happen for anyone in the next year or two, but Indianapolis has several companies (including Jeff Ready’s Scale Computing) that have hoisted themselves out of the often-shaky startup phases and are ready to take off.
Sisters Jan Long and Chris Mowery had little more than an idea in 1995 when they trekked to Kmart’s corporate headquarters to pitch a product they thought had potential: a recyclable bird feeder their father had designed to promote his plastics business. They left with their first big contract.
Some of them are heroes; others will scare the living daylights out of you.
Few contemporary political skirmishes break down so cleanly into two sides: The right side of history, and the wrong.
The CEOs and of four cloud marketing companies–two national and two local–might make Indianapolis into a bridge between two feuding Silicon Valley giants. Or put the city in the middle of an aggressive arms race in one of the tech industry’s hottest markets—cloud marketing.
HGCC Lender LLC this month filed a $4.8 million foreclosure suit and asked a court to appoint a receiver for Hamilton Proper’s 279-acre Hawthorns Golf & Country Club.
The short film series “Rupert Boneham’s Frightmares,” produced by locally based Adrenaline Motion Pictures, will have a local debut at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at Studio Movie Grill.
Successful people’s paths are often littered with failures. It isn’t that they are immune to failure; it is how they react to and apply the lessons learned from their failures that ultimately leads to their success.
It is far too early to call the rollout of the Affordable Care Act a failure; most new programs have rocky starts. But this one has most of the signs of inevitable failure. If the situation doesn’t remedy itself quickly, the complete redo of the law will be hastened considerably.
The Library of American Broadcasting gave the award at a ceremony in New York City this month.
Evansville-based Shoe Carnival Inc. operates 367 shoe stores in 32 states and Puerto Rico, in addition to selling through its website, shoecarnival.com.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has asked the Marion Circuit Court to dismiss a lawsuit Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed this week against 10 members of the State Board of Education she chairs.
Of the 10 teams that reached the BCS football championship game and the men's and women's basketball Final Four, only one finished with a graduation rate lower than 70 percent in the NCAA's latest report.
Police on Tuesday arrested a Johnson County man suspected of a burglary spree in Whiteland. Christopher Mars, 27, initially was arrested on a warrant for probation revocation. During a subsequent search of his car and home, officers found numerous items taken during several home and vehicle robberies early Monday or late Sunday. Items recovered included a chainsaw, GPS equipment, an MP3 player and a violin. Mars also was in possession of a controlled substance.
Indianapolis police are investigating an armed robbery involving an unusually young suspect. The victims, a family of four, were unloading groceries from their van Wednesday outside their apartment in the 5700 block of West 43rd Street when they were robbed by two males. The victims said the gunman was about 18 and his accomplice looked about 8 or 9. The pair ran off with a cell phone, wallet and purse.
The city of Lawrence fired an animal control officer after dead and malnourished animals were discovered among filthy conditions at the shelter. Two dead dogs and a cat were found Tuesday night by police officers investigating a vandalism call involving broken windows at the facility. The fired worker, David A. Ross Jr., 49, was the shelter’s only employee and could face charges. At least 11 animals remain at the shelter.
The International Cricket Council president says the $6 million World Sports Park is enhancing Indianapolis' global reputation even before it opens.
A low-key movie survives transfer to the stage. And a father’s abandonment ripples for generations.
