HETRICK: Let’s make Thanksgiving a year-round concept
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
An IBJ review of hundreds of pages of public records shows Christopher P. White and his Premier
Properties USA Inc. are facing major financial and legal challenges. The most glaring signs of trouble: Contractors have filed
more than $3.5 million in liens against Premier’s retail properties in Plainfield; the state of Indiana is trying to
recover $375,000 in sales taxes on White’s airplane; and the contractor who renovated his Lake Clearwater mansion
is suing him to recover more than $600,000 in unpaid bills.
Well placed sources inside the local tennis community claimed this week that IUPUI plans to demolish the Indianapolis Tennis
Center next spring to make room for an NCAA headquarters expansion.
California-based Vivus claims its drug acts in 30 minutes, compared with about 2 hours for Lilly’s Cialis.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Jeff Belskus has some huge decisions to make. He’s already shown he’s not afraid to get his
hands dirty making the tough calls. So what’s next?
Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. will pay $3 million to 32 states, including Indiana, and provide refunds
to affected customers.
The Indianapolis Art Center laid off its full-time curator and cut one other position this month in an effort to pay down
short-term credit and deal with reduced income from its classes.
The decision to sidetrack a 110-mph Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati train hasn’t received any attention
locally. High-speed rail could someday become an economic development engine here, but it has
not gained as much attention here as improved highways or a commuter rail line from downtown to Noblesville.
I’ve driven by countless strip-mall eateries without giving them a second glance, but there always has been something
about Carmel’s Mangia! that has drawn my attention. Maybe it’s the exclamation
point.
Secretary of State Todd Rokita has relied on fines and fees to greatly increase his office’s firepower without a tax hike.
This week, thoughts on exhibitions at Evan Lurie Gallery in Carmel and a new revue at the Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room.
Those in the trenches say this won’t be a blockbuster Christmas, but it won’t be horrid, either.
It seems like just yesterday that Matt Painter was playing for Purdue University basketball. Now he’s the Boilers’ coach, and he has emerged from
the long shadow of his mentor and predecessor, Gene Keady.
A source at Indianapolis Motor Speedway said IMS laid off 40 employees Wednesday, mostly from its human resources department,
in a cost-saving move.
Behind every convention that rolls into Indianapolis is a tedious sales effort as intense and invisible as a riptide. Sometimes
the sale cycle lasts as long as six years.
The city’s Veteran Business Enterprise program aims to increase the representation of veteran-owned businesses on city projects—an
effort that has generated $217,000 in contracts for such firms so far.
The Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America is collaborating with other Muslim organizations and interfaith groups
to collect donations to help the families of victims in the Fort Hood shootings. The shootings at the Texas military base
killed 13 people and injured 29 others. Authorities say the attack was done by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist
and a Muslim.
Izod officials said they signed their title sponsorship deal despite the fact that the series’ iconic leader Tony George was
shown the door during negotiations.
With apologies to the rock group King Crimson, who recorded a song in the late ’60s called “21st Century
Schizoid Man,” I’d like to draw attention to our city’s split personality. Good Indianapolis.
Bad Indianapolis.
Horizon League Commissioner Jon LeCrone never envisioned himself getting into the television business. But that
changed in 2004 when he saw a Butler University women’s basketball game being aired on a laptop computer.