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Plans to build a $1.5 billion plant in southwestern Indiana to turn coal into natural gas have been put on ice. The developer, Indiana Gasification LLC, yesterday pulled its application to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, according to The Times of Munster and the Evansville Courier & Press. The project, which was to be built […]
The Hot Box pizza chain has reached a deal with a pair of veteran local restaurateurs to open two new locations in Carmel. The first, scheduled to open in January, will…
Old National Bancorp has agreed to buy 65 Charter One bank branches, including 51 in Indianapolis, for about $16 million. The price was compelling in part because the bank normally would pay about $3 million each for new branches in Indianapolis, said Bob Jones, CEO of the Evansville-based bank, the largest headquartered in Indiana. Most […]
OneAmerica Financial Partners has extended its title sponsorship of the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon for a second round of five years, beginning in 2010. The price wasn’t disclosed in a release today from 500 Festival Inc., which puts on the race. In 2006, the latest year for which 500 Festival contributions were made public, the festival […]
Evansville-based Old National Bancorp has signed an agreement to buy the 65 Indiana branch offices of Charter One, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Charter One is owned by Citizens Financial Group of Providence, R.I.; Citizens is owned by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. The deal includes $397 million of […]
The Indiana Pacers are in the bottom five in the National Basketball Association in attendance, but it’s still a solid leap up from last year. And it’s early, so there’s lots of time…
Today, I’m just going to serve as your GPS, guiding you to some interesting arts writing from my blog roll. Happy clicking.
–Recent Indy visitor Tyler Green (of IMOCA/IMCPL/IO’s “10 Things I Hate About Contemporary Art”) comments on his recent trek…
More than half the cars, vans, pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles assembled in Indiana failed to make
the Insurance Institute for Highway Safetyâ??s latest list of safest vehicles.
Making the list are the Subaru Legacy and Tribeca, assembled in…
Telephone, Internet and television provider Comcast has closed its Anderson call center and moved nearly all of the 39 jobs to its expanding call center in Fishers. Comcast also is closing three other call centers in the state in order to concentrate on locations in Fishers, Fort Wayne and Bloomington, according to The Herald Bulletin […]
Declines in house sales continued in October, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors reported yesterday. Units sold in the 13 counties tracked by the trade group plummeted 24 percent, to 1,726, from last October. The median sale price fell 3 percent, to $115,000. All 13 counties showed declines in unit sales. Sale prices were not […]
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. said today that it has closed its acquisition of ImClone Systems Inc., a New York-based developer of cancer drugs. Lilly paid $70 in cash for each share of ImClone in a deal worth about $6.3 billion. Lilly outbid New York rival Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., but analysts question whether Lilly will […]
Wealthy people are getting more advice from hired professionals and less from not-for-profit personnel and peers when making decisions about charitable giving, a new study shows. Accountants were a leading source of advice for 43.2 percent of respondents, according to preliminary results of the study, which was conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana […]
I won’t debate who the Indianapolis Colts’ most valuable player is this season. There are perhaps more qualified people for that speculative sport. But I will tell you who the Colts’ best value…
Several layoffs have been announced in the past few days, according to Indiana media outlets and notices filed with the state. -Bluegreen Corp. of Boca Raton, Fla., is closing its Indianapolis office by Jan. 20, tossing 92 out of work. The company markets vacation time-share arrangements. -MI Windows & Doors Inc. shuttered its plant in […]
The corporate name change to ‘That’s Good HR’ strengthens the identity of staffing firm.
Jim Rosenstihl, an Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame coch, and Jim Limp, a retired Eli Lilly employee, together exemplified
an undying, unyielding, unrelenting friendship.
As we hunker down and try to fend for ourselves during this difficult economy, don’t forget to support those who are even
less fortunate and
have been hit even harder than we have.
Founded in 1983, Faerber’s Bee Window’s main product — windows — has changed dramatically, as has almost every aspect
of
its business, from manufacturing to marketing.
Indiana’s public pensions lost $5 billion in the 12 months ending Sept. 30.
In the wake of the 2008 election, State Sen. Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, has been promoted. to chairman of the powerful Senate
Appropriations Committee, which oversees the state budget.
