Indianapolis outpaces Cincinnati in many convention measures
In this Quick Hits look at a competing convention city, Cincinnati boasts more convention space, but Indianapolis draws more guests.
In this Quick Hits look at a competing convention city, Cincinnati boasts more convention space, but Indianapolis draws more guests.
The Arts Council of Indianapolis faces the unenviable task of divvying up less than $1 million in city grants for the arts, compared with $2.15 million that was awarded last year.
Since January, Heartland Distillers has turned out several small batches of its first signature spirit—Indiana Vodka—available at about 300 area retailers.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is calling legislators back to the Statehouse next week to resume work on a new state budget, and legislative leaders are already meeting to lay the budget groundwork. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Daniels told a bipartisan group of lawmakers yesterday that the special legislative session would begin June 11. […]
Before you hear Ed Morrisonâ??s warning for Indianapolis, itâ??s helpful to know the Cleveland-area resident is
a fan.
Morrison, who was hired by Purdue University a couple of years ago to help Hoosiers think of new ways of
solving problems, believes…
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard approved two new charter schools this morning, bucking calls by some to halt expansion of the taxpayer-funded schools. The new schools are the Indiana Aerospace Junior-Senior High School and the Paramount School of Excellence. In addition, Ballard assumed oversight of the Irvington Community School, an Indianapolis charter school that had previously […]
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is calling legislators back to the Statehouse next week to resume work on a new state budget, and legislative leaders are already meeting to lay the budget groundwork. Daniels told a bipartisan group of lawmakers yesterday that the special legislative session would begin June 11. The Republican governor said he hopes […]
Third in a series of reports from my recent NYC trek.
I swear I wasn’t looking for an Indiana connection when I set out to find out where Broadway show folk hang out — and perform — after the curtains come…
The city’s Capital Improvement Board will merge into a new agency, and hotel, rental car and sports-admission taxes would rise under a proposal announced this morning to bail out the financially troubled organization. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard presented a proposal they say will raise the funds necessary to cover the […]
The city’s Capital Improvement Board will merge into a new agency, and hotel, rental car and sports-admission taxes would rise under a proposal announced this morning to bail out the financially troubled organization. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard presented a proposal they say will raise the funds necessary to cover the […]
Have some theater time on an upcoming business trip to New York? Here are three shows from the current season Broadway season. “Hair,” the self-proclaimed “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” is back on Broadway some 40 years after its taketheater-by-storm original production. And I’m very pleased to report that the musical groundbreaker’s latest incarnation isn’t a […]
Overtures Gov. Mitch Daniels has extended to the General Assembly should be sufficient to end squabbling over the budget. Legislators ought to take the offer, pass a budget, and leave the Statehouse before they throw any more sand in the gears. Public schools would get a 2-percent increase in funding and higher education would receive […]
Could the Virginia Avenue corridor eventually challenge Mass Ave as the hip place to live downtown? A local architecture firm hopes to make a strong case with an artsthemed development on the site of a former mail-sorting facility in Fletcher Place. The $9 million project called Fletcher Place Arts would include 56 mostly one-bedroom apartments, […]
Have some theater time on an upcoming business trip to New York? Here are three shows from the current season Broadway season. “Hair,” the self-proclaimed “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” is back on Broadway some 40 years after its take-theater-by-storm original production. And I’m very pleased to report that the musical groundbreaker’s latest incarnation isn’t a […]
Most of us wouldn’t drop what we’re doing to show our friends a form letter that included our names in the salutation. A personalized video, on the other hand, might make an impression. That’s what Butler University found out in a recent fund-raising experiment. The Indianapolis liberal arts college e-mailed a video to 20,000 potential […]
Kelly Krauskopf has combined a calm, easy demeanor with an intense competitive drive to shape the city’s 10-year-old team
into a title contender. She considers every year a make-or-break season.
Current and former employees of Bloomington-based International Outsourcing Services LLC are under assault by federal prosecutors
who charged they participated in a scheme to bilk some of the nation’s largest issuers of coupons out of more than $250 million.
A local architecture firm hopes to challenge hip Mass Ave with an arts-themed development in Fletcher Place. The $9 million
project would include apartments, retail and office space.
Fund raising via video e-mailing gets attention, but the jury is still out on its return on cost.
Overtures Gov. Mitch Daniels has extended to the General Assembly should be sufficient to end squabbling over the budget.
Legislators ought to take the offer, pass a budget, and leave the Statehouse before they throw any more sand in the gears.