When Ed Pegler was laid off from his highway construction job four months ago, the 47-year-old father of two didn’t know when he’d be back to work. Then the phone rang. There was a job, paid for by the federal stimulus law. It’s a story the White House hopes to repeat 3.5 million times, to […]
Volunteer managers say they’ve seen an influx this year of people who’ve lost their jobs, as well as students who are anticipating a tough market after graduation. The volunteers are welcome, especially as charities themselves have fewer paid employees.
Carmel businessman Dan Laikin finds himself in the awkward spot of denying wrongdoing at the same time the three men accused
of conspiring with him in a stock-manipulation scheme are admitting guilt.
ChaCha Search Inc. co-founder Brad Bostic has stepped down as president of the human-assisted Internet search company, which
is struggling to turn a profit in a dismal advertising climate, but he hasn’t left. "Brad is still engaged with the company
as a director, co-founder and consultant," said co-founder and CEO Scott Jones.
These days, the "buy local" crowd seems to have a stronger voice. I am gleeful about this for a variety of reasons, but it
is helpful to view some of their claims with a bit of skepticism. At least that is what economists should do.
Architecture and urban design students from Ball State have created a vision for urban renewal that is arguably more compelling
than the Central Indiana Regional
Transit Authority’s principal, utilitarian goal of reducing northeast-side highway congestion and air pollution by running
a diesel commuter train atop the old Nickel Plate Railroad corridor.
Fast-growing tanning chain hot on Indianapolis market Kentucky-based company aims for 25 salons in area At a time of retrenchment for most retailers, Elizabethtown, Ky.-based Sun Tan City is enjoying a growth spurt that has brought it to the Indianapolis market in a big way. Since November 2008, it has opened eight salons in central […]
In the future, a passenger boards a commuter train in Noblesville that minutes later stops near 56th Street and Keystone Avenue. Here, a semicircle of eco-friendly high-rises hovers above a grassy plaza bordered by canals. At the next stop, another new community has sprouted just east of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, along Fall Creek. Amid […]
ChaCha Search Inc. co-founder Brad Bostic has stepped down as president of the human-assisted Internet search company, which is struggling to turn a profit in a dismal advertising climate, but he hasn’t left. “Brad is still engaged with the company as a director, co-founder and consultant,” said co-founder and CEO Scott Jones. There are no […]
Scott Whitsitt puts so much effort into his recordings for the Indiana Reading and Information Service that they have a professional quality. He’ll record, edit and re-record his weekly rendition of Time magazine for two to three hours, far exceeding most volunteers’ booth time. “I’ve been a wannabe radio announcer for years,” Whitsitt said. Since […]
A federal judge in Indianapolis blocked today’s planned launch of a generic version of Evista, an osteoporosis and breast cancer drug made by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. Sarah Evans Barker granted Lilly a preliminary injunction against Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. In March, Teva said it would wait until April 23 to launch its […]
I’m not sure what it has to do with sports, but ESPN columnist Rick Reilly delves into the business of a locally run Internet search engine in his most recent column. While the…
A youth minister at Greenwood’s Salvation Army Church has been arrested and charged with child molestation following an investigation by the Franklin Police Department. Police arrested Jonathan James Hartman, 29, after a 15-year-old old girl reported she was pregnant. The investigation revealed two more female victims who are also 15. Fox 59 will have more […]
Federal officials have chosen Navistar Corp.’s Fort Wayne plant to help develop a new electric hybrid school bus that’s part of the Obama administration’s goal of lessening the nation’s reliance on petroleum. The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that Navistar will be a partner in a project to develop, test and put onto the […]
Richard Green Co., founded in 1957, is a mini-conglomerate of sorts, selling pretty much anything necessary for work in the food-concessions business.
Throughout our visit to five countries in the Mideast, we found the people friendly and helpful.It is not our purpose on these trips to argue with the locals or try to convert them to our way of thinking, but simply to learn about them, their culture and ideas.
He’s called The Peanut King, but these days Richard Green, president of the Indianapolis-based Richard Green Co., offers a lot more than just goobers. His company, founded in 1957, is a mini-conglomerate of sorts, selling pretty much anything necessary for work in the food-concessions business. From a nondescript cluster of buildings on South Meridian Street, […]
IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin chimes in with an update on efforts to launch a new Indianapolis ballet company:
The potential launch of a…
Mike Alley made lots of money running Fifth Third Bank’s central Indiana operations until he quit in 2002 to run his own investment firm, and he’s still making it pumping resources into entrepreneurial companies.
That perspective — of shifting from a…
Express Scripts Inc. stands to gain considerable negotiating clout from its $4.68 billion deal to buy the pharmacy benefits management businesses of health insurer WellPoint Inc., and experts say that could mean savings for customers buying prescription drugs. St. Louis-based Express Scripts said yesterday it planned to buy Indianapolis-based WellPoint’s NextRx subsidiaries in a cash-and-stock […]
