The latest unnamed source to discuss the future of Chrysler raises the possibility of the company being sold
off in pieces.
This, after it became public that General Motors is interested in Chrysler to snag desperately needed cash.
Nissan…
Jerry Handfield hasnâ??t lived in Indiana since 2001, when he moved to Washington to take a similar job overseeing
that stateâ??s archives.
But Handfield still keeps tabs on Indiana. So much so that he checks the Weather Channel when tornadoes
rip…
Just about everyone whoâ??s taken advantage of a nice day to trek to Brown County on State Road 135 has
seen a lot of motorcycles.
The winding road to the tourism hot spot may indeed be picturesque. But itâ??s also dangerous.
The…
Bloomington keeps racking up the accolades.
Over the weekend, a Wall Street Journal article focused on the city as a vibrant, low-cost alternative to
Sun Belt locations for retirees. Congestion is low, there are two hospitals, and plenty of natural…
Nestle has gotten the green light from the city of Anderson to build a 50-foot-tall rabbit near the companyâ??s
new Nesquik plant along I-69.
The steel and fiberglass rabbit will look like the smiling cartoon logo thatâ??s been on…
Commercial fishing outfits are taking tons of caviar from paddlefish in the Ohio River because severe restrictions
on fishing for Russian sturgeon in the Caspian Sea have depleted the supply of the eggs.
But thereâ??s a problem: Indiana along with…
Bloomington has a reputation as one of the toughest places in the state to do business.
Its regulations are thickets, its bureaucrats nit-pickers, its public officials aloof. At least thatâ??s how
many businesspeople view the city.
The latest controversy pits…
Detroit keeps turning out bad news, what with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler losing market share and Volkswagenâ??s
announcement last fall that it would abandon the city and move its U.S. headquarters to Virginia.
Now Volkswagen is days away from unveiling…
Conseco has dropped off the Fortune 500, leaving WellPoint, Lilly, Cummins and NiSource as the only Indiana companies remaining. Several Indiana firms are closing in on the elite list, though. One is Steel Dynamics, the Fort Wayne company that recycles scrap metal….
Chelsea Clinton has been widely praised for her response to a question at Butler University yesterday about
how Monica Lewinsky might have affected her motherâ??s candidacy for president.
â??I donâ??t think that is any of your business,â?? Chelsea Clinton shot back.
The…
What Hoosier hasnâ??t been to Brown County for the fall colors, to shop in Nashville or tromp on the trails
at Brown County State Park?
Yet, as IBJ correspondent Jonathan Hiskes reported in this weekendâ??s edition, prosperity is coming harder and…
Lots of people laughed last week at the Fort Wayne law firm that called police about a suspicious gift
bag it received. The suspicious package had come from a man who was being sued by a client of the…
If youâ??re looking for another reason Toyota is pushing Detroit carmakers around, notice how their workers
spend their time when vehicle sales soften, spurring production cutbacks.
Detroit companies send their workers home with nearly full compensation.
At its plant in Princeton, Toyota…
Lots of people are flocking to the eight suburban counties that surround Indianapolis, a new report from
the Indianapolis Private Industry Council says.
More than 16,000 showed up in 2005 alone, said the report, which tracks the work force.
But the council…
So much for IKEA dropping one of its stores in the Indianapolis area anytime soon.
A store opening today in a Cincinnati suburb is about as close as Indianapolis is going to see, at least
for a while, IBJ Associate…
More of us Hoosiers are moving to unincorporated areas and other places beyond city and town limits.
In fact, the pace of growth for unincorporated areas was significantly faster between 2000 and 2006 than
for cities and towns, the Indiana…
BMW said today it will expand its plant in Spartanburg, S.C., to make the X3 and X5 sport-utility vehicles.
Another model destined for the plant is the X6 coupe.
The cost of imports has risen as the value of the…
For a long time, General Motors has told us its newest model would drive back the Germans, Japanese and
more lately the Koreans.
Those who believed, of course, must feel like Charlie Brown after Lucy yanks away the football.
Now GM is getting…
For years, dreamers have envisioned a life sciences crescent stretching from West Lafayette down Interstate
65 to Indianapolis, then along State Road 37 to Bloomington.
The thinking was, this corridor would take advantage of Indiana and Purdue universities and IUPUI as…
Itâ??s been a tough couple of years in Bloomington for Roberts Distributors, the well-known Indianapolis supply
house for cameras and other photography equipment. So tough that the Bloomington store is closing.
Bruce Pallman, the second generation running Roberts, said the location…
