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A native of Kentucky, Andrews has worked at Hoosier newspapers since graduating from Indiana University in 1987. He covered education at the Journal and Courier in Lafayette before joining IBJ in 1991. He later was a business reporter and the business editor of The Indianapolis Star. He’s been writing his Behind the News column for IBJ since rejoining the newspaper in 2000. Andrews and his wife, Kathleen, have a son in college and another living in Colorado. They live in the Nora area with their two dogs.

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Judge slams Bose over ‘misrepresentations’-WEB ONLY

Bose McKinney & Evans’ defense of an Evansville company in a highstakes environmental-contamination lawsuit has degenerated into a fiasco, with a federal judge sanctioning both the client and law firm and ordering each to pay half the plaintiff’s legal bills. In a stinging 65-page order June 5, Indianapolis Judge Larry McKinney found Red Spot Paint […]

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Prosecutors see seedy side to seemingly tame industry

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.

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Insurance chief blasts ISTA for benefit halt-WEB ONLY

The troubled ISTA Insurance Trust says it will discontinue paying long-term-disability benefits to teachers next month – a move that drew a rebuke this morning from Indiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt. “It’s pretty shocking what they are attempting to do here,” he said. “These people on disability – they have nothing after July. How do […]

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Insurance chief blasts ISTA for benefit halt-WEB ONLY

The troubled ISTA Insurance Trust says it will discontinue paying long-term-disability benefits to teachers next month – a move that drew a rebuke this morning from Indiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt. “It’s pretty shocking what they are attempting to do here,” he said. “These people on disability – they have nothing after July. How do […]

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NEA takeover humbles once-mighty ISTA

The National Education Association said today that it is taking over its Indiana affiliate, a stunning comeuppance for what
long had been one of the most powerful union forces in the state.

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UPDATE: NEA takeover humbles once-mighty ISTA-WEB ONLY

The National Education Association said today that it is taking over its Indiana affiliate, a stunning comeuppance for what long had been one of the most powerful union forces in the state. The Indiana State Teachers Association, perhaps the most feared lobbying interest at the Statehouse, said in an e-mail to members it will cede […]

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BEHIND THE NEWS

BEHIND THE NEWS REITs get boost, not scorn, for selling cheap shares Here’s more evidence we’re in strange times: Indianapolis’ real estate investment trusts have been issuing hundreds of millions of dollars of stock at woefully low prices-and getting a pat on the back from their shareholders for doing so. It’s all part of the […]

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Emmis creates option to sell, lease back HQ

Would embattled Emmis Communications Corp. sell its Monument Circle headquarters, a prized development that opened a decade
ago at what then-Mayor Steve Goldsmith called "the most important site in the city and the very center of Indiana?"

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BEHIND THE NEWS: Questions about expenses have dogged Marsh before-WEB ONLY

Don Marsh lashed back last month after the owner of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing him of billing the company for millions of dollars in personal expenses. He said in a statement that “it is clear the out-of-state, venture capitalist group ownership is looking for someone to blame for their own poor business […]

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Durham insider deal sparks outcry

Tim Durham is facing allegations of self-dealing after a publicly traded company he helps run in Dallas acquired assets from
a finance company he owns in Ohio.

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