Councilor Keith Potts announces run for Braun’s U.S. Senate seat
Potts, a Democrat in his first term on the City-County Council, works with several local not-for-profit arts organizations.
Potts, a Democrat in his first term on the City-County Council, works with several local not-for-profit arts organizations.
By 2024, Goodwill aims to establish three stores in Puerto Rico and have 40 to 80 employees working on the Caribbean island.
It’s another step toward crowd control following a shooting incident in the village on Sunday that killed three people and injured another as 400 to 500 people gathered in the area.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Republican opponent Jefferson Shreve are expected to keep up a consistent TV ad presence in a long march toward the Nov. 7 election.
The campaign commercial, created by Bullhorn Communications, will run on Indianapolis television stations from July 3 until July 16 and cost the campaign $603,000.
A $25 million federal grant will be matched with just more than $20 million in city funds, providing $46.5 million for the street conversions and for infrastructure projects.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s 30-second video ad focuses on the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Opponent Jefferson Shreve has not yet advertised during the general election cycle, but will within the next week, his campaign told IBJ.
Following fatal shootings early Sunday, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the city would work with the Broad Ripple Village Association to create a temporary gun-free zone in the village’s entertainment district.
The Republican-dominated Legislature has given the city a way to raise money for downtown’s post-pandemic revitalization, but there appears to be little chance that Democratic city leaders will pursue it before the November city election.
The IndyRent program “pause” is to ensure renters who have filled out an application can be given the remaining funding, according to the city. Indianapolis renters have recently experienced a higher rate of evictions than the rest of the nation.
The mayor’s plan includes hiring three attorneys who would be detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and prosecute federal gun crimes. Republicans say that’s needed because the county prosecutor isn’t doing enough.
Community leaders and volunteers are working to turn a site that was once a swimming hole on the White River for Black Indianapolis residents into a year-round destination.
Find out who the key advisers, pollsters and communication professionals are behind the campaigns of incumbent Democratic Mayor Joe Hogsett and Republican challenger Jefferson Shreve.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett on Wednesday announced plans for a four-month closure to vehicles in a quadrant of Monument Circle and a pedestrian-focused redevelopment of Georgia Street.
Under the measure, Department of Public Works engineers and the fatal crash review team are authorized to restrict right turns throughout downtown, Broad Ripple, and other specified areas at intersections identified as dangerous in past city studies.
Through interviews with councilors, IBJ found Democrats have the majority needed for the City-County Council to pass a Hogsett administration plan for Indianapolis to publicly finance and own a new downtown convention center hotel.
The council plans to vote Monday to place no-turn-on-red restrictions at downtown intersections before the effective date of a state law banning the city from doing so. The local proposal includes an amendment designed to further insulate the city from state legislation.
From a base in West Lafayette at the Purdue Research Park, the company’s scientists are racing to create environmentally friendly, food-insecurity-fighting crops through special genetic technology.
The mayor’s multi-part plan announced Thursday includes increased gun restrictions, more gun-free zones and a crackdown on nuisance properties.
The Indiana Department of Transportation plans to resurface streets and repair curbs and sidewalks in 15 downtown Indianapolis locations.