Small stores vie for slice of holiday-shopping pie
National retailers are licking their chops over the $586 billion consumers are expected to spend during the holiday season, and small-business owners also are bellying up to the buffet.
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Lawmaker seeks funding to tackle abandoned housing
State Rep. Ed Clere plans to introduce a bill that would give municipalities explicit powers to create land banks, which can sell surplus property for redevelopment. He also wants to include a revenue source to support land-bank operations and eliminate tax-foreclosure sales as a form of investor speculation.
Glass factory’s safety under state’s lens yet again
Union leaders say working conditions are improving at the Pilkington glass factory in Shelbyville, but an employee’s injury in October has led to another visit from state safety officials and possibly more fines.
Demolitions ordered as blast probe continues
Officials in Indianapolis have ordered the demolition of 29 homes in a blast-ravaged neighborhood hit by a deadly house explosion.
Miles faces tough challenge in reversing IndyCar’s fortunes
The new CEO of Hulman & Co. gets an early vote of confidence from sponsors of open-wheel racing.
South-side shopping center fills up on shoes, furniture
Shoe Carnival, Rooms Express will bring Southport Plaza to full occupancy for the first time in four years.
Holiday Wish List
The following is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most. This list is being published weekly through Dec. 24.
DINING: Down Home Cookin’ lives up to comfort food claims
Last in a month-long series of keep-it-simple restaurant reviews.
LOU’S VIEWS: Not your average movie book
Lou Harry is on vacation this week. In lieu of his regular column, here’s an excerpt from his new e-book, “The Movie Uncyclopedia: Everything You Think You Know About Movies is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.”
PROXY CORNER: Old National Bancorp
Evansville-based Old National Bancorp is a bank holding company with $9.4 billion in assets and more than 180 branches in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
HETRICK: From Indianapolis to Pendleton, what I did for love
Why would I trade my coveted skyline view for the Friday-night lights of the Pendleton Heights High School Arabians? Why would I trade walk-everywhere convenience for drive-everywhere drudgery?
Pliant Ohio regulators helped clear path for Durham’s fraud
The Ohio Division of Securities allowed Fair Finance to register investment certificates even after the company stopped providing audited financials and Tim Durham drained more than $100 million from the firm through insider loans.
BENNER: Big Ten follows the no-boundaries, big-money pack
It has become clear that, in the new world order of big-time intercollegiate athletics, these are the things that really matter: eyeballs.
KIM: Let Indiana help you pay for gift of college education
If there’s one absolute truth in investing, it’s that there is no such thing as a sure thing. However, for Indiana residents who want to help children, grandchildren or other loved ones save for college, there is the next best thing.
HICKS: ‘Scooby Snacks’ and the great American giveaway
It would be surprising if we could not today identify a good many folks who rely on government largesse in lieu of hard work.
Pence advised to keep Bible in his pocket
Nice work, Mickey, reminding the governor-elect [Nov. 12] to govern as he campaigned, with economics and education as the promised focus.
Mass Ave design should be edgier
At the American Institute of Architects Regional Conference in Lexington, Ky., Olson Kundig of Seattle and Archimania of Memphis, the keynote speakers, left Indiana architects in awe of the beautifully detailed and technologically experimental, and amazingly crafted work.
ROKITA: Sweeping tax reform long overdue
As I’ve traveled across Indiana and met with Hoosier employees, business executives and civic groups over the past two years, I’ve heard many stories about the complex, unfair nature of our federal tax code.