Despite the yellow warning flags flying all around NASCAR, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has its foot on the gas as it prepares for the Brickyard 400 on Sept. 9.
Tedd Grain, who joined the Local Initiatives Support Corp. in 2009 and became deputy director four years ago, succeeds Bill Taft as executive director.
During the past 20 years, Riley Children’s Foundation has raised $500 million, the majority of which has been spent for pediatric research and patient programs at Riley Hospital.
Bob Berbeco has used technology—including tele-behavorial health and GPS tracking—to help Adult & Child Health assist clients with serious mental illnesses.
Mayor Joe Hogsett, in introducing the 2019 city budget Monday night to the Indianapolis City-County Council, presented a plan to issue $120 million worth of debt over the next four years.
Whether Seattle-based Gen Con and local officials can now reach an understanding on technology could spell the difference between Indianapolis’ hanging onto its most prized convention and potentially losing it to another city.
The mayor said his administration has been “very intentional and purposeful” in trying to address the fact that more than 20 percent of Indianapolis residents—and a third of Indianapolis children—live in poverty.
Now is the perfect time to turn our gaze toward the future and invest in one of the nation’s most undervalued resources, children who are born and grow up at or below poverty guidelines. For the state of Indiana, that is $25,100 for a family of four.
On Aug. 17, 1907, a fire at the Prest-O-Lite factory at 229 E. South St. downtown led tanks of acetylene gas to explode, sending pieces of steel flying through the air.
