MAURER: Politics prevail over wisdom
There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory of creationism. Creationism seeks a supernatural explanation and must be taken on blind faith. It is not science.
There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory of creationism. Creationism seeks a supernatural explanation and must be taken on blind faith. It is not science.
A Beech Grove councilman was arrested for allegedly trying to solicit a prostitute Tuesday morning. Paul David Mobley, 63, was charged with patronizing a prostitute, a misdemeanor. According to police, Mobley approached an undercover female officer in the 3000 block of East Washington Street and agreed to pay $20 for oral sex. The undercover officer said she told Mobley to meet him behind a building, but Mobley changed his mind and drove off. Police stopped Mobley, who said he “just had a moment of weakness.” Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley said he sent Mobley a letter asking him to resign. Mobley was elected on Jan. 1 as an at-large councilman.
An Indiana regulatory panel passed new rules Wednesday aimed at protecting the quality of the state's waterways. The new rules are aimed at lowering the levels of pollutants released into waterways by companies.
With the loss of two of its biggest stars after last season, the IndyCar Series faces a stiff challenge ramping up its television ratings, attendance and overall financial fortunes. Marc Koretzky is among the fresh faces driving series toward profitability.
Corn production in the United States, the world’s biggest shipper of the grain, will be “huge” as warm weather encourages farmers to plant early to avoid the risk of late-season frost damage, economist Dennis Gartman said.
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Kudos to Sheila Suess Kennedy for her insightful op-ed about the essence of an educated and informed society.
Indianapolis-based AIT Bioscience named Emilio Córdova as senior vice president of business development. Córdova was previously vice president of business development at Worldwide Clinical Trials Drug Development Solutions in Austin, Texas, and before that spent much of his career at West Lafayette-based Bioanalytical Systems Inc. Córdova holds a bachelor's degree from Drew University, a master’s and doctorate from the University of Miami (Fla.), and an MBA from Purdue University.
Dennis Dawes, CEO of Danville-based Hendricks Regional Health, will retire in late spring or early summer after leading the hospital for 38 years. He was just 28 when he took the helm of the hospital in 1974, and has since led several expansions, including the establishment of satellite campuses in Avon and Plainfield. Dawes holds a bachelor's degree in religion from Taylor University and a master’s in health administration from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Congratulations on a well-written [Morris column, March 26] about Second Amendment rights under attack.
Dennis Ryerson will retire as editor of The Indianapolis Star on June 1 after nine years at the position.
Traffic authorities are looking to control development that might follow the project upgrading parts of U.S. 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend.
There is a mix of sadness, grief and anger in Beech Grove, as Franciscan Alliance moves the last of its inpatient and emergency operations from its nearly 100-year-old Beech Grove hospital to the new Franciscan St. Francis facility at Stop 11 Road and Emerson Avenue.
Ball State University plans to build a $25 million hotel in a building that will also have student-housing space, conference rooms and two restaurants.
The struggling electronics chain Best Buy has launched a turnaround strategy that borrows more than a few pages from the playbook of competitor HHGregg.
Danville-based Hendricks Regional Health announced that Dr. John Sparzo will become the hospital system’s interim CEO on June 1 after current CEO Dennis Dawes retires. Sparzo is Hendricks Regional’s vice president for medical affairs. Hendricks Regional has hired an executive search firm to conduct a national hunt for a permanent replacement for Dawes, who has led Hendricks Regional for 38 years.
Fuad Hammoudeh has joined St.Vincent Cancer Care as executive director. He has been Indiana University Health’s administrator of cancer programs since 2005. Before that, he was CEO of the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute. And from 1986 to 1994, Hammoudeh was CEO of Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield. He holds a bachelor’s in political science from Manchester College and a bachelor’s in accounting from St. Joseph College.
The Indiana University National Center of Excellence in Women's Health named Teri Duell to a newly created position of operations director. Duell previously worked in the office of gift development at the IU School of Medicine. Also, IU named Tisha Reid the associate director of the IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. Reid previously worked as the outreach manager of the Indiana Clinical Translational Sciences Institute’s Community Health Engagement Program.
Indianapolis-based HealthNet Inc., a not-for-profit network of Indiana health care centers, named J. Cornelius “Jimmy” Brown its new CEO. He will succeed Booker Thomas, who is retiring June 11 after more than 12 years leading HealthNet. Brown most recently served as vice president of corporate services and community affairs at Swope Health Services in Kansas City, Mo. Previously, he was president and CEO at Dallas Southwest Medical Center in Texas. Brown retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 1992. He holds a master’s degree in public administration, with an emphasis in health care management, from the University of North Dakota. He earned a bachelor’s in public administration from North Texas State University.
The $3.8 billion that Indiana netted in 2006 from leasing the Indiana Toll Road to a foreign consortium will be mostly spent or allocated by the time the state’s next governor takes office in January
The FBI had been investigating Tim Durham since March 2009, when his friend Dan Laikin, a Fair Finance board member, offered up incriminating information on the Indianapolis financier in hopes of securing a lighter sentence for himself in an unrelated case.
The Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics retailer on Wednesday reported fiscal quarterly profit of $53.6 million, including $39.6 million from a life insurance policy the company took out on former executive chairman Jerry W. Throgmartin.