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Tax hike may finally settle police pension problem: Measure could end 30-year battle over public safety

June 25, 2007

The Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council is considering a proposal from Mayor Bart Peterson to raise at least $85 million annually for public safety through an increase in local income taxes. Since Democrats control the Council 15 to 14, the measure is expected to pass by the end of July and take effect Oct. 1. The tax hike would finally settle a 30-year battle that constantly pitted public safety’s immediate needs against its longterm pension obligations. Much of the revenue generated…

Daniels a change-maker so far, historians say

June 11, 2007

As Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels prepares for a likely second run for office, two prominent historians say he already has accomplished enough to go down in history as a change agent who raised controversy by ramrodding through an agenda that included passage of daylight-saving time and the $3.85 billion lease of the Indiana Toll Road. […]

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: U.S. companies should evaluate Chinese tax changes

June 11, 2007

Over the past three decades or so, foreign investment has been fueling China’s economic growth. Companies from around the world have flocked to meet the needs of the largest population in the world: 1.3 billion citizens and counting. Shifts in China’s political climate have made this Asian country ripe for commerce, and foreign companies-especially in the United States-have rushed in. Many U.S. manufacturers have been lured to China by tax holidays and reduced tax rates on income generated from their…

General manager named for struggling Columbia Club

June 6, 2007

The Columbia Club has hired Maarten van Wijk as general manager and chief operating officer to replace Edward Albany. Albany stepped down early this year after the not-for-profit hired a St. Louis consulting firm to help it reverse declining membership and other problems. Van wijk was general manager of the Four-Star Mobile award Hotel Hershey […]

Media trainer becomes driving force at Speedway: Firm teaches athletes how to behave on camera

May 28, 2007

While most eyes were on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2-1/2-mile oval this month, Kevin Long was more interested in what happened in the media room. Long is not a news reporter, but he’s been focused on every word spoken to the media this month by drivers, team managers and owners. It’s Long’s job to make sure those speaking into the mike maximize the benefit for themselves, their teams and sponsors. He owns and operates MVP Sports Media Training LLC, a…

Insurer stays on roll by hitting the brakes: Baldwin & Lyons profits more despite revenue drop

May 28, 2007

But that axiom doesn’t seem to apply to Baldwin & Lyons Inc. The quiet trucking-fleet insurer headquartered in Indianapolis happily let its revenue slide last year 7 percent, ending a four-year run of rapid growth. Why? Because new competitors have aggressively entered Baldwin’s traditional trucking market with lower prices. The industry’s margins have been slashed by half or more. Most businesses would call that trend a threat. But not Baldwin. President Joe DeVito disdainfully calls these new competitors “naive capital,”…

Giuliani leads race for Indiana donations

May 21, 2007

Campaign finance records through the first quarter of 2007 show Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, has raised $176,950
in Indiana. That’s more than twice as much as one-time Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, his closest Republican rival.

NOTIONS: Beyond election reform, electorate re-engagement

May 21, 2007

I once spent a day serving as an Allen County election official. I was 20-something. I worked for Fort Wayne’s mayor. And on Election Day, the mayor expected us to work the polls. For the sake of nostalgia and monotonyinterrupting conversations, I got myself assigned to the precinct at my high school. On the appointed Tuesday, I showed up at 5:15 a.m., did my voter-watching/guardagainst-shenanigans-by-the-other-party thing for 12 hours and helped with votecounting for two hours after that. Then I…

Cummins sales could double in five years, CEO says

May 8, 2007

A surge of new products could drive Cummins Inc. sales to $20 billion by 2012, CEO Tim Solso told The Republic, a newspaper in the southern Indiana city. That would be about twice the $11 billion the diesel engine maker reported for 2006. Much of the increase would come from light-duty diesels the company is […]

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Gambling quenched lawmakers’ appetite for new revenue

May 7, 2007

The 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly is now history. Whatever else might have been involved in shaping its outcome, nothing was so determinative as the revelation in the closing days that property taxes-driven by the first application of trending, rising property values in general, the elimination of the inventory tax, and some old-fashioned political legerdemain on the part of some assessors in different regions of the state-were expected to rise an average of 24 percent for taxes payable…

Museum seeks leader to stem attendance slide

May 7, 2007

The new Indiana State Museum building–a 230,000-square-foot study in glass, steel and limestone–opened in 2002 to blockbuster
attendance, with nearly 260,000 of its 614,000 total visitors checking out the exhibits. Fast forward to its five-year anniversary
and the news isn’t so rosy.

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Events outside the Capitol shape final days of session

April 30, 2007

As I write this, we have no way of knowing what the 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly will mean for gambling, property tax relief or the biennial budget-the three overarching items looming over the heads of lawmakers as they entered their final week of deliberations. But that won’t prevent us from making a few pertinent observations about the context, and how that atmosphere was shaping events. Each legislative session possesses a flow of its own, based on incidents,…

Republic profit rises on greater passenger traffic

April 26, 2007

The addition of 39 regional jets and resulting increase in passenger traffic helped fuel a 14.1-percent improvement in first-quarter profit for Republic Airways Holdings Inc., the Indianapolis carrier said yesterday. The parent of Chautauqua and Republic airlines and Shuttle America reported $19.3 million in net income. Republic also said its plans to add 54 regional […]

Lilly, other corporations step up giving to Democrats

April 23, 2007

Businesses, including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., have poured $1.7 million into coffers of chairmen of U.S. House of Representative committees since the start of the year. That’s nearly twice as much as corporations gave when Republicans controlled the House during the same stretch of 2005, according to Bloomberg. Interests including pharmaceutical makers, like Lilly, […]

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Key issues all entangled as Legislature heads to wire

April 23, 2007

Longtime readers of this column will recall how we traditionally analogize conference committee time to the NBA playoffs, and compare some of the legislative players to Indiana Pacers great Reggie Miller in the closing minutes of a finals game. With Reggie retired and the Pacers out of the playoff picture this year, those analogies don’t seem quite so appropriate. But we still can talk some hoops. A sage Hoosier native, speaking about a tradition sacred to generations of Hoosiers, once…

Ivy Tech boasts healthy enrollment, but most students wither on vine

April 23, 2007

Ivy Tech Community College–charged with cranking out workers to fill high-demand jobs in critical occupations–has an output
rate reminiscent of an old, state-owned Soviet assembly line. Incoming President Thomas Snyder is taking over a community
college system that graduates only 12 percent of its students within three years.

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Negotiating blitz to bring legislative session to close

April 16, 2007

For those who thought this had been a fairly boring session of the Indiana General Assembly to date, wake up from your deep slumber. Nap time is over. We’ve reached the point where the lowhanging fruit has been picked by lawmakers and passed on to the governor, and the heavy lifting remains. Lawmakers embark upon the conference committee stage of deliberations. To understand conference committee time, forget all your conceptions to date about the session and begin with a clean…

Fred Glass brings city’s ‘to do’ list to life

April 16, 2007

Fred Glass, president of the city's Capital Improvement Board, headed historic transitions in both the mayor’s and governor’s
offices and has become the go-to guy for some of the city’s biggest initiatives, most of them sports-related.

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Action will focus on three bills in dash to the finish

April 9, 2007

This week will see the final round of action by the House on Senate bills and the Senate on House bills, and then the real work of the Legislature begins. Legislation that has passed both chambers in different forms may be reshaped in a manner acceptable to both, and legislation that has passed only one chamber remains eligible for inclusion in related bills and final passage by both the House and Senate. Few people gave much credence to this year’s…

High-tech 21st Century funding in doubt

April 2, 2007

The first version of the $25.6 billion state budget, passed by the Democratic majority in the Indiana House of Representatives
Feb. 22, didn’t include any money for the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, which provides financial assistance
to promising high-tech startups.

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Tax hike may finally settle police pension problem: Measure could end 30-year battle over public safety

Daniels a change-maker so far, historians say

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: U.S. companies should evaluate Chinese tax changes

General manager named for struggling Columbia Club

Media trainer becomes driving force at Speedway: Firm teaches athletes how to behave on camera

Insurer stays on roll by hitting the brakes: Baldwin & Lyons profits more despite revenue drop

Giuliani leads race for Indiana donations

NOTIONS: Beyond election reform, electorate re-engagement

Cummins sales could double in five years, CEO says

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Gambling quenched lawmakers’ appetite for new revenue

Museum seeks leader to stem attendance slide

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Events outside the Capitol shape final days of session

Republic profit rises on greater passenger traffic

Lilly, other corporations step up giving to Democrats

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Key issues all entangled as Legislature heads to wire

Ivy Tech boasts healthy enrollment, but most students wither on vine

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Negotiating blitz to bring legislative session to close

Fred Glass brings city’s ‘to do’ list to life

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Action will focus on three bills in dash to the finish

High-tech 21st Century funding in doubt