A plan from the mayor of Franklin to rejuvenate the downtown area includes raising by 3 or 4 feet several blocks that were heavily damaged by flooding last year. Mayor Fred Paris acknowledges that the plan is nowhere near final, but says by elevating the southwest part of downtown, the city would create a scenic […]
Ford Motor Co. said today it lost $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter as auto sales slumped, but it has no plans to seek federal aid unless economic conditions worsen. The second-largest U.S. automaker said it burned through $5.5 billion in the quarter, less than the $7.7 billion it used in the third quarter. The […]
Starbucks Corp. plans to slash 6,700 more jobs during a new round of store closures and other cuts, the company said yesterday as it reported that its profit dropped by more than two-thirds in its fiscal first quarter. The gourmet coffee chain plans to close 300 underperforming stores around the world – including 200 in […]
Rahal Letterman Racing has pulled out of the 2009 IndyCar Series because it cannot find a sponsor to support its program. RLR becomes the latest racing team to be affected by the reeling economy. The team won the Indianapolis 500 with Buddy Rice in 2004 and brought Danica Patrick to the IndyCar Series. “At this […]
Orthopedic implant maker Zimmer Holdings Inc. today said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 37 percent due to slowing sales and the cost of buying Abbott Spine. Warsaw-based Zimmer said its profit decreased to $167.5 million, or 75 cents per share, from $263.8 million, or $1.12 per share, in the prior-year period. Revenue fell 4 percent to […]
Greenwood officials are putting plans to build a new city hall on hold until they know whether the city will add an unincorporated area with about 40,000 residents. The Johnson County community just south of Indianapolis currently has about 47,000 residents. Greenwood Mayor Charles Henderson told the Daily Journal of Franklin that city leaders don’t […]
Indiana legislators say they are trying to fix a situation in which landlords facing foreclosure on their rental properties sometimes give tenants little or no notice that they need to find a new place to live. Lawmakers want to give renters a heads up before they are kicked out of their homes. So the Indiana […]
Steel Dynamics Inc.’s stock price jumped today after it beat Wall Street’s expectations of its fourth-quarter results, though the steelmaker posted a loss because of one-time charges. The Fort Wayne-based company reported a loss of $82.7 million, or 45 cents per share, in the quarter compared with profit of $97.9 million, or 50 cents per […]
Federal officials want to talk to Indiana Department of Environmental Management officials about plans to dissolve the agency’s enforcement office and other proposed enforcement changes. Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator Bharat Mathu said in a letter to IDEM that his office wants to talk about the changes to determine their impact on federal programs. Environmental […]
A Republican lawmaker has defied Gov. Mitch Daniels and filed a bill to slow the rollout of Indiana’s new welfare intake system, but the leader of the GOP-controlled state Senate is skeptical the legislation is needed. The bill by Rep. Suzanne Crouch, R-Evansville, would stop the Family and Social Services Administration from automating welfare intake […]
Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasped the reins of power as America’s first black president today, declaring the nation must choose “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord” to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In frigid temperatures, an exuberant crowd of more than a million packed the […]
Evansville-based Berry Plastics Corp. is planning an $80 million expansion of its thermoforming operations next year. The company says the site of the expansion has yet to be determined, but it expects the project to add more than 150 jobs to its work force. Berry, which ranked first on IBJ’s 2008 list of the largest […]
Gary officials are asking a state board to increase property tax caps that limit annual tax bills for the city’s homeowners and businesses.City officials went before the state’s Distressed Unit Appeals Board Monday, seeking an exemption from the caps imposed by the General Assembly last year.Gary officials say the city may lose $30 million under […]
A state-funded study of Indiana’s charter schools has found that “no practical difference” exists between the alternative
schools and traditional public schools.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has no plans to repeat Indiana’s tax-amnesty program that recovered about $245 million from delinquent
payers in 2005.
A bill that would require legislators who leave office to wait at least one year before they could become lobbyists got a
chilly reception in a Senate committee last session and went no further.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said he generally supports a federal stimulus package that would include some money for Indiana and other
states, particularly for infrastructure projects such as highways and bridges.
Descendants of World War I flying ace Harvey Weir Cook celebrated the Veterans Day dedication of a new passenger terminal
bearing his name, a belated consolation for the removal of his name from Indianapolis International Airport that he helped develop more than 60 years
ago.
Eldorado Resorts LLC, a Nevada company, has a long-running bid to take over Casino Aztar in Evansville, and the bid now appears
to be heading for approval by state regulators.
A federal task force approved voluntary guidelines Nov. 12 for airlines and airports dealing with passengers stranded for
hours on the tarmac, but it produced no fixed limit on how long they can be delayed before being allowed to leave planes.
