Businesses have seized on environmental responsibility as a marketing mantra. But many have made their products, processes and facilities greener. Some are motivated by philosophical reasons, and others by rising energy bills and out of anticipation of federal regulations on carbon dioxide. Six experts in green issues shared their outlook during IBJ’s Power Breakfast Feb. […]
Turning over the blog for this item to reporters Kathleen McLaughlin and Scott Olson:
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is bowing out of the free summer concert series at Garfield and Holliday parks.
Symphony CEO Simon Crookall said he decided last fall, after…
A leading state senator wants to rely on money from the federal stimulus package to give a slight spending increase to Indiana’s public schools. Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville) said yesterday that he is still developing his proposal. But he wants to use $683 million in stimulus money in hopes of increasing basic funding […]
Despite the recession, local e-mail marketing firm ExactTarget Inc. is still growing fast. This morning the company announced it added more than 1,000 clients last year, including Advance Auto Parts, Priceline.com and Trip Advisor, boosting its revenue more than 50 percent. ExactTarget now has more than 7,000 customers. Revenue now has increased for 32 consecutive […]
Raising local hospitality taxes and trimming funding to local cultural organizations are among the possible solutions the Capital Improvement Board’s finance committee identified this morning to help chip away at the organization’s looming $38 million budget deficit. The CIB board will meet Monday to consider the options presented by the finance committee. A 1 percentage-point […]
A leading state senator wants to rely on money from the federal stimulus package to give a slight spending increase to Indiana’s public schools. Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville) said yesterday that he is still developing his proposal. But he wants to use $683 million in stimulus money in hopes of increasing basic funding […]
The Federal Reserve today rolled out a much-awaited program aimed at boosting the availability of credit to consumers and small businesses. The Fed will lend up to $200 billion to spur consumer lending – for autos, education, credit cards and other consumer debt. The money will be used to provide financing to investors to buy […]
The struggling economy is sending more people to libraries to check out books and DVDs for free and avoid costly rentals or purchases, library officials say. Last year, the number of items checked out at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library rose 6 percent, boosting its annual borrowing to more than 1.1 million items for the […]
Democrats and Republicans in the Indiana General Assembly carved out some wide, partisan divides on several big issues during the first two months of the 2009 legislative session, setting the stage for a second-half rumble. Lawmakers reached the session midpoint – when bills passed by the House and Senate are taken up by the opposite […]
State officials are drafting plans to spend nearly $122 million in federal stimulus money to clean up Indiana’s aging, overflow-prone sewers and upgrade its drinking water systems. Although federal agencies are still fine-tuning details of how the nation’s $787 billion stimulus package can be spent, Friday was the first deadline for communities seeking money set […]
The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit that supports education reform, is sponsoring an art show March 6 at the Harrison Center for the Arts.
The Indiana state budget will continue to be a work in progress for many more weeks.
How do you feel about taxing commuters to supplement promotion of the cityâ??s convention industry? The idea
was floated in an article by IBJ reporter Anthony Schoettle about the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors
Association asking for more money…
President Barack Obama said today he would begin distributing $15 billion to the states within two days to help them with Medicaid payments to the poor. The money will begin reaching the states Wednesday from the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus program, Obama told the nation’s governors during a meeting at the White House. […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels was scheduled to meet with President Obama this morning to discuss the challenges facing Indiana. Daniels is in Washington for a National Governors Association meeting. Obama says he wants to make it easier for governors to lead their states out of the economic crisis. Indiana expects to get about $4 billion from […]
Commuters in Greenwood can take an IndyGo bus downtown beginning March 2. The Greenwood IndyGo Commuter Express, the third IndyGo ICE route outside of Indianapolis, will depart from the Meijer Store on North State Road 135 and arrive downtown at Delaware and McCarty streets about a half-hour later. The route features five other stops downtown. […]
Donna Sharp made a good living in Elkhart even without a high school diploma, earning about $19 an hour putting stripes on recreational vehicles in this northern Indiana county known as the RV capital of the world. Then Monaco Coach Corp. announced in July that it was closing the plant in Wakarusa where Sharp worked, […]
Shoring up the state’s jobless-fund shortfall likely will cost employers and employees more.
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association says it needs more sales and marketing firepower to fill an expanded convention
center and adjacent hotels. That means asking the city’s Capital Improvement Board—one of ICVA’s primary sources of funds—for
a budget increase of up to 50 percent at the worst possible time.
Positive action, action for the sake of action, and inaction were all on tap in the General Assembly in recent days as lawmakers
prepared to wrap up the first half of the session.
