GM workers hesitate to bite at buyout bait
GM workers must decide by March 24 whether to take a buyout, but the lack of jobs due to the recession coupled with the cost of health care makes their decision especially difficult.
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Indians concerned about possible ticket tax
Some local officials wrestling with the Capital Improvement Board’s $37 million deficit think part of the profit made by the Indianapolis Indians could be used to narrow that deficit, but Indian officials balk at that idea because they say they’ve already paid more than their share.
Dow may need to sell Indy’s Dow AgroSciences
Financially strapped Dow Chemical Co. acknowledges it may sell Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC, the ag-chemicals-and-biotech
firm that’s one of the biggest jewels in the city’s life sciences crown.
Activity at Statehouse picks up, but how much is getting done?
After a surprisingly slow month of January, the pace of legislative action picked up considerably during the first two weeks
of February.
Questioning Obama, Favre and the CIB’s $50 million
It’s the season for bailouts—banks, businesses, capital improvement boards are all standing on street corners shaking
empty Burger King cups at passing taxpayers.
A showy millionaire faces spate of lawsuits
A recent spate of lawsuits, filed by a who’s who of Indianapolis businessmen, exposes cracks in Tim Durham’s veneer of opulence.
Indianapolis’ sewer project will be the city’s biggest public works undertaking since the interstate highway system
City engineers and consultants are fine-tuning plans to build a colossal tunnel to temporarily store water and raw sewage that now shoots into local waterways during rain storms.
Family foundations represent nearly $1 billion in Hoosier assets
Although family foundations may grant as little as $50,000 in a year, these foundations wield influence over other philanthropists, and one advocate says they could help guide the spending of billions of economic stimulus money.
Use your cell phone as a tracking device
My dream application for a cell phone is to use it to locate a person in a crowd.
Stimulus just way too big to spend this year
After much debate, the U.S. House and Senate have come together on a stimulus package. Whether it will work remains to be seen. And the long-term impact of spending nearly $800 billion is a big concern.
Hoosier architects need to reach out globally
Indianapolis-area architects are missing out on a wealth of outsourced design work for construction projects.
Fast-growing Tuitive seeks to put unintuitive programmers in back seat of software, Web design
Jonathan Arnold sees big business potential in his firm “Tuitive,” which specializes in cleaning up the confusion caused by
programmers, who often put features and functionality ahead of making their product intuitive to use.
Residency restriction for liquor distributors should go
It’s time for Indiana to get rid of a law that limits liquor distribution to in-state companies.
Gold has been glittering next to other commodities
It may be that gold is now beginning to reassert itself into the role it was meant to play for manâ??the only true store of value we have ever known.
Elkhart’s industries could be transformed to focus on energy conservation and environmental improvements
Elkhart’s industries should shift to producing mass transit vehicles and manufactured housing for low-income, high-density neighborhoods.
Advanced energy next focus for economic development
The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership—the parent of the BioCrossroads, TechPoint and Conexus industry cluster initiatives—let it be known last month that there would be a fourth leg to its economic development stool: clean technology.
Jefferson Plaza renovation approaches end
The Jefferson Plaza renovation, which has been renamed Allen Plaza after its developer, will include restaurants, office space, condos, and is also working to achieve LEED environmental certification.
Leaders driven to finish road linking Interstates 74, 70
Recently elected as a Hendricks County commissioner, Eric Wathen says his top priority is to complete the long-promised Ronald
Reagan Parkway, which would open a congestion-free path through the suburbs of Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield.
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CIB could ask for $34 million in write-offs from Circle Centre investors to ease deficit
A group of mostly local companies that made big investments to help launch Circle Centre mall soon could be asked to write
off a portion of profits they agreed to redirect into the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse.