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A Greenwood swim team member rescued her own coach from drowning Wednesday at Greenwood High School. Coach Chas Grimm passed out during an underwater swimming challenge between him and swim team members. Freshman Hannah Fuller says the coach was on his third lap when she saw him twist and float toward the surface. Fuller says […]
The union representing about 200 employees at the Indianapolis Star voted overwhelmingly this weekend to accept a one-week furlough for each of its members in hopes of avoiding further layoffs. Officials at Star parent Gannett Co. Inc. announced last week that all of its employees would be required to take one week off without pay […]
Ice Miller LLP is the latest city law firm to cut payroll by eliminating support staff. The firm late last week laid off 14 people, reducing its total workforce by about 2 percent. No attorneys were affected by the cuts, the firm said. “Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a thorough […]
Carmel’s plans for a total of 60 roundabouts by 2011 drew gasps of admiration from the crowd at this year’s National Roundabout Conference. And ultimately,…
It was partly sunny, and in the mid to high 70s yesterday in Glendale, Ariz. And the roof on the Arizona Cardinals’ football stadium was closed for the NFC Championship game against the…
A number of car companies have introduced, or plan to introduce, clean-diesel engines to cater to buyers
wanting better fuel efficiency.
Diesels from Volkswagen and other manufacturers boost mileage by about a third, but much of that advantage
in the past…
So, did you catch “Love Person” at the Phoenix? “Defiance” at the multiplex? Comic Joel McHale at the Murat? Or did you listen to frequent blog contributer Hope Baugh talkin’ Lincoln with Storytelling Arts?
I regretably missed all of that this…
Cincinnati-based PDS Biotechnology Corp. will get $2 million from the state’s 21st Century Research and Technology Fund to move its headquarters and laboratory to Indiana. Founded in 2005, the “semi-virtual” company has four employees now; it anticipates ramping up operations over the next five years, eventually employing more than 50, CEO Frank Bedu-Addo said this […]
Last fall, BioCrossroads named Leonard J. Betley—chairman of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, the Regenstrief Foundation
and the Walther Cancer Foundation—its inaugural Life Sciences Champion of the Year. IBJ recently caught up with Betley to get his thoughts on the latest life sciences developments and gauge the climate
for fund raising.
Sitting in gridlocked traffic along Interstate 69, Fishers residents might already think of their town as
a city. This sprawling suburb of 65,000 people certainly looks nothing like the burg of less than 1,000 it was three decades ago.
But down at the municipal government complex, Fishers is still a town, just as it was incorporated in 1891.
The McKinney Family Foundation has created a fund to support initiatives of Mayor Greg Ballard’s 3-month-old Office of Sustainability, an environmental initiative that promotes projects ranging from energy-efficient city buildings to bicycle paths.
A 2000 study has proven to be "remarkably prescient" in identifying information technology as a mainstay of the local economy that would "affect
all industries and all jobs," said Michael J. Hicks, the top economist at Ball State University.
Tip O’Neill once said, "All politics is local." I watched my sister and even my bookkeeper—who hadn’t voted in decades—cheer
when Barack Obama rose far above John McCain in November. Clearly, there was a mandate and Obama’s oratory and messages
seemed to inspire voters across the country.
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for Indianapolis recycling firms. On the one hand, public interest and participation
in recycling programs have never been stronger. On the other, the industry’s capacity to turn all that trash into treasure
rarely has been weaker.
Indiana office of AARP to honor best employers for workers over 50 The Indiana office of AARP is soliciting nominations for its annual “Best Employers for Workers Over 50” recognition program. Last year the organization that is an advocate for older Americans honored 50 employers nationwide whose workplace policies and practices are friendly toward older […]
I was disappointed and then grew angry when I read Somerset President Pat Early’s comments relative to the Penrod Society’s
misfortune apparently caused by Somerset employee and Penrod volunteer Brandon Benker. ("Penrod suspect had record" in the
Jan. 12 issue)
Spotlight on Hamilton County Named for Alexander Hamilton, a member of the Continental Congress and a framer of the U.S. Constitution 5 LARGEST CITIES/TOWNS population Carmel ……………………………………….68,677 Fishers ……………………………………….65,382 Noblesville ………………………………….41,561 Westfield …………………………………….20,459 Cicero ………………………………………….4,439 Sources: U.S. Census Bureau special census (Fishers and Carmel) and July 2007 estimates 5 LARGEST EMPLOYERS employees Roche Diagnostics………………………….3,650 Conseco […]
Indianapolis Public Schools is looking for a new redevelopment strategy for its 11-acre facility on Massachusetts Avenue after an ambitious proposal for the historic former Coca-Cola bottling plant fizzled. A development team consisting of locally based not-for-profit Riley Area Development Corp. and California-based Panattoni Development Co. had pitched a $100 million mixed-use replacement for the […]
New theaters have popped up in Indianapolis and around the United States in recent years, adding to communities’ cultural vitality. But a first-of-its-kind national study reveals a trend that could spell trouble: As theaters multiplied, the overall audience shrank. “In the long run, it’s not good because what it means is everybody, the established theaters […]
By nature, coaching is a transient profession, increasingly so in these days of not-soguaranteed contracts (by either the employer or employee) and the mentality of, “What have you done for us?” not lately, but, uh, like today. Or an hour ago. For some, the only thing shorter than attention span is perspective. So, for the […]
