Congratulations to Gov. Mitch Daniels and his administration on their development and implementation of the Indiana Transparency Portal. It’s a grand start to detailed information about state and local government activities.
Funds ride resurgent market after taking a beating in the financial crisis.
The fourth skywalk connection to the Indianapolis Artsgarden is moving forward more than 15 years after the landmark structure opened.
Construction on the walkway that will connect the downtown PNC Center with the Indianapolis Artsgarden should begin in March. Plans to pave the gravel parking lots on the former site of Market Square also received approval.
A $250,000 investment in Aarden Pharmaceuticals will go toward advancing tuberculosis therapy through the pre-clinical development stage.
Many of the best minds in the nation are endorsing the latest stimulus package, which retains the Bush tax cuts and reduces workers’ Social Security contributions nearly one-third.
The recession came to an official end 18 months ago, but Indiana’s unemployment rate hovered around 10 percent.
Marketing software company Aprimo Inc. will stay in Indianapolis after being sold for $525 million to Dayton, Ohio-based based data storage giant Teradata Corp., Aprimo CEO Bill Godfrey said Wednesday.
Have a sports junkie on your list? Here’s a great game to play during the big game.
In a world of relative equals, the U.S. will have to learn to define itself by its values.
A question that must be posed to the tea partiers intent on taking Sen. Richard Lugar out: Who replaces him?
What should be done to attract more young professionals to Indiana? The availability of a talented innovative work force is now as important as low taxes, energy costs and location when entrepreneurs make job-location decisions.
Indiana cannot meet growing economic and educational expectations without fundamentally rethinking how we deliver higher education to our students, how we measure progress, and how we reward results.
How should the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department be fixed? Unfortunately, the conduct of a small group of police officers has eroded the public’s trust and confidence in IMPD.
Bringing Carmel and Avon offices under the Prudential brand should help the agency increase its presence in the metropolitan area, particularly on the west side.
Butler basketball leads list of top sports stories of the year.
The key factor determining the change in a county’s representation in the Legislature is the change in its share of the state’s population.
California-based Beckman Coulter Inc., which employs more than 500 people in the Indianapolis area, is up for sale, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to investigate a sale. After the Journal’s report, the company’s market value neared $5 billion. Potential buyers include private-equity firms such as the Blackstone Group and Apollo Global Management, or other companies in the medical-device industry, such as Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories, Germany-based Siemens or even Roche Diagnostics Corp. a Swiss company that operates its North American headquarters out of Indianapolis. Beckman’s testing machines are used in hospitals and medical research labs. In 2007, it moved more than 200 jobs to Indianapolis as it relocated its centrifuge development and manufacturing facilities. In October, Beckman announced plans to add 95 more jobs in Indianapolis over the next three years.
What is it about White County? In the same month that White County Memorial Hospital said it’s ready to merge with Indianapolis-based Clarian Health, now White County’s Monticello Medical Center is selling its four-physician family practice to St. Elizabeth Regional Health in Lafayette. St. Elizabeth is part of the Franciscan Alliance, which operates the three St. Francis hospitals in the Indianapolis area. Monticello, the White County seat, is about 30 miles north of Lafayette. St. Elizabeth will employ the four physicians, as well as three nurse practitioners, who collectively serve the largest percentage of White County residents. Locking up family practitioners is key for hospitals right now as they try to form themselves into “accountable care organizations” that will be paid by Medicare and private insurers for managing the long-term health of patients. Medicare’s rules will require accountable care organizations to provide family, or primary, care to at least 5,000 patients.
Indiana University’s health care budget will fall $24.9 million short of projected expenses in 2011-12, according to the Herald-Times of Bloomington, as a low-deductible Anthem Blue Access health care plan has become too expensive to offer to its 18,000 employees. IU trustee Tom Reilly Jr. implied that employees need to cover some of the extra costs.
Eli Lilly and Co. suspended a Phase 3 clinical trial of a skin-cancer drug after 12 patients in the study died, according to Bloomberg News. The deaths, among the 300 patients in the study, “may be treatment-related,” said Amy Sousa, a Lilly spokeswoman. Lilly was testing tasisulam on patients whose skin cancer had spread and who didn’t benefit from earlier treatment. No new or existing patients will be given the drug while the company evaluates safety data for the trial. But Lilly will continue to study tasisulam against breast, ovarian and renal cancers and against soft-tissue sarcoma, the company said.
Interim leader is hoping that a more streamlined governance will help the struggling, state-supported museum be more successful in raising private donations and keeping CEOs.
