The men who presided over Ohio-based Fair Finance were at their wits end by late 2009. In government-recorded phone calls and intercepted e-mails introduced as evidence in U.S. District Court this week, they come across as exhausted, angry and determined.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the Indiana Youth Group in its appeal of the state's March decision, arguing the BMV selectively enforced the policy that led to the ban.
Detroit Free Press senior managing editor Jeffrey Taylor was introduced to the Indianapolis Star's staff on Tuesday. He succeeds Dennis Ryerson at the helm of the state’s largest newspaper.
More college degrees wanted, but large borrowing amounts present obstacle.
The question at the heart of this year’s debate over the future of Indianapolis Public Schools is whether the district should be placed in the hands of Indianapolis’ mayor. But when mayors take control of bad schools, test scores usually rise but challenges don’t go away.
Indiana's school voucher program has finished its first year with enrollment on the rise and supporters trumpeting the program's successes.
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.
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 $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
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 struggling electronics chain Best Buy has launched a turnaround strategy that borrows more than a few pages from the playbook of competitor HHGregg.
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.
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.
Traffic authorities are looking to control development that might follow the project upgrading parts of U.S. 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend.
Dennis Ryerson will retire as editor of The Indianapolis Star on June 1 after nine years at the position.
Congratulations on a well-written [Morris column, March 26] about Second Amendment rights under attack.
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.
Kudos to Sheila Suess Kennedy for her insightful op-ed about the essence of an educated and informed society.
