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Local museums receive grants
Four Indiana museums will receive federal special-projects grants totaling more than $500,000, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis plans to develop education opportunities. The Indianapolis Museum of Art will develop a rights and reproductions handbook, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will improve its collections storage vault. The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science plans to use its grant to improve visitor experiences.
Carmel man faces drug, sex charges
Jonathon E. Horton, 46, was arrested at his Carmel home Wednesday on prostitution and methamphetamine-related charges. Police said Horton performed a sex act on an undercover officer at the home in the 500 block of 1st Avenue Northeast before he was arrested. After the arrest for prostitution, authorities found meth and drug paraphernalia. They also turned over several electronic media storage devices to the Hamilton County Metro Child Exploitation Task Force for investigation.
Man fatally shot after stabbings
A man was shot to death Friday after he allegedly stabbed two people outside a nightclub near Lafayette and Georgetown roads. Witnesses say the man became upset after being denied entry to the Black Diamond night club at about 3 a.m. and began attacking people with a knife. A friend of one of the stabbing victims pulled a gun and shot the man in the chest and stomach. The stabbing victims were hospitalized in good condition, and the shooter was taken into custody.
Purdue advancing $150M in building projects
Purdue University officials are moving ahead with plans for spending about $150 million to renovate several engineering buildings and construct a new classroom and library building in West Lafayette.
Online retailer Newegg plans big distribution center
Newegg.com is considering a $15 million distribution center in Indianapolis that would employ 150 people by the end of 2015.
New day dawning for Noblesville’s Uptown Cafe
The landmark Uptown Café in downtown Noblesville is expected to reopen next month with new operators behind the counter.
Mall owners go from first to last in REIT market
Shopping mall owners like Simon Property Group, the best-performing U.S. property stocks for four years, have tumbled to the worst as sluggish retail sales and limited opportunities to expand drive investors to look elsewhere for earnings growth.
‘Star Trek’ star, Broadway vet cast in Mellencamp/King ‘Ghost Brothers’
Horror musical to launch tour at IU Auditorium in, appropriately, October. Clowes Hall to follow.
Senate Dems push universal state-funded preschool program
Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said the benefits of preschool are too important to ignore for Indiana to remain one of 10 states that doesn’t put state funding into the programs.
Democrat calls for investigation of Bennett lists
Indiana's Senate Democratic leader called for an investigation Thursday after fundraising lists for former state schools chief Tony Bennett were discovered on state computers.
PROXY CORNER: First Merchants Corp.
First Merchants Corp. operates 76 branches in 24 Indiana counties and two Ohio counties.
Running for office again?
J.K. Wall’s [Sept. 2] article points out that Mitch Daniels is trying to “create new ways to measure student learning, graduate success and overall academic quality at Purdue” and that “Such a system of measurements would help students, parents and donors choose schools based on the best bang for the buck … ”
Purdue fortunate to have Daniels as president
Your [Sept. 2] cover story on Purdue President Mitch Daniels referenced “skepticism” from certain camps within the Purdue faculty. In the article, professor David Sanders was quoted as a basis for that skepticism.
Wanting full marriage
I love Indianapolis. It is our home and I would love to marry my partner, but we will never settle for a watered-down version of marriage.
Maurer got it right
You got it, brother, [Maurer, Sept. 2] except we need to mount up our pickups and ATVs, load up our Glocks, .45s and AK-47s and lay waste to those idiots who want to marry whomever they please.
Lincoln’s Republicans
If Abe Lincoln were asked about the proposed legislation to amend Indiana’s Constitution to ban gay marriage [Maurer, Sept. 2], he would respond as he has in the past: “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
GOODRICH: Don’t delay sewer, water upgrades
Indianapolis has largely reinvented itself over the last four decades. Most of our modern skyline—the major office towers and hotels that define downtown—came about in the last 20 years. The IUPUI campus took shape in the early 1970s and has continued to grow. The sports venues that helped put us on the map, the vast convention center, our impressive new airport terminal—all built within a generation.
