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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Q&A: What you need to know about the CDC’s new mask guidance
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Carmel distiller turns hand sanitizer pivot into a community fundraising platform
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Lebanon considering creating $13.7M in trails, green space for business park
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Local senior-living complex more than doubles assisted-living units in $5M expansion
Contrasting United Way, Wheeler
Businesses and their employees opened pockets last year to enable United Way of Central Indiana to hit a
record $39 million in contributions.
The not-for-profit attributed the good news to hustle by campaign co-chairmen who offered money from their…
Do you feel poorer?
Inflation is speeding up and wage growth is slowing down, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said this
morning.
Blame rising oil prices for the inflation and the slowing economy for the sluggish wage growth, says the
Economic Policy Institute, a…
Affordable housing…again
Indianapolis is now the most affordable large market in which to buy a house 10 quarters running.
Thatâ??s according to an index the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo put out this afternoon.
In the past quarter, 46.6 percent…
Fear grips donors to charity
Wheeler Mission Ministries broke the unsettling news yesterday that it is laying off 13 staff and shifting
its ministries for youth and families to another charity in order to minimize an anticipated operating deficit.
Why? Donors are worried about…
Is film tax break a bad idea?
Gov. Mitch Daniels had sharp words for legislators after they finished overriding his veto of tax breaks
for the film industry.
â??Itâ??s truly an irresponsible decision, and I canâ??t imagine what they were thinking,â?? he fired off in a statement
yesterday.
Are…
Kentucky as gambling competitor
The developing story in Kentucky about its new governorâ??s attempt to legalize casinos isnâ??t getting a lot
of play in Indianapolis, but the fallout could be huge if he succeeds.
Steve Beshear wants a dozen casinos to try to stop gamblers…
IUPUI and IU business degrees
The undergraduate business program at IUPUI used to let in just about anyone. At one point, only the bottom
10 percent of a high school graduating class was steered to Ivy Tech or elsewhere.
Got a business degree from IUPUI? It…
WellPoint yanks controversial letter
Californians are howling over the recent discovery that one of WellPointâ??s units made a practice of asking
doctors to report conditions that the insurance company could use to cancel medical coverage for new patients.
The letter amounted to asking doctors to…
Township government travails
Center Township Trustee Carl Drummer may be a nice guy, but he sure knows how to squirrel away taxpayer
dollars, IBJ reporter Peter Schnitzler showed us in this weekendâ??s IBJ.
Drummer has racked up a $7.1 million surplus â??…
Do doctors make too much money?
Health insurance companies including Indianapolis’ own WellPoint Inc. have been relentless in trying to suppress
spiraling health costs. So relentless, in fact, that doctors are pushing back.
Physician groups in Kokomo, Rushville and other cities are refusing to take new patients…
Paying extra for hormone-free milk
Grocery stores are rejecting milk from cows that have been injected with a growth hormone that stimulates
milk production.
Kroger, Dean Foods and others are responding to consumers who are jittery about recombinant bovine somatotropin,
or rbST, which has been used since…
Lucy, footballs and General Motors
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…
A new desire for streetcars
Electric streetcars are an old idea that should be brought back, some civic leaders believe.
IBJ reporter Chris Oâ??Malley writes today that heavyweights including Indiana Convention and Visitors Association
President Bob Bedell are backing a not-for-profit called Downtown Indianapolis…
Who will win the banking wars?
Itâ??s no secret that banks are in upheaval thanks to the subprime mortgage crisis and the domino affect mess
itâ??s creating.
In an IBJ story over the weekend, reporter Cory Schouten discusses the local grab for market share, as…
Seeking your take on the markets
You IBJ readers are a wealthy lot. Our latest survey, taken in September of last year, shows that you had
a $170,700 median household income and the median value of your investments came to $679,700.
Three of four had corporate stocks…
Adding to the life science corridor
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…
Are these incentives a good deal?
Gov. Mitch Daniels dished out $6.3 million in incentives as part of Defender Directâ??s expansion announcement
yesterday. But was the carrot a good deal for us taxpayers?
Defender Direct, which sells home security and satellite dish systems, plans to add 1,100…
Immigration bill to become law?
The Indiana Senate made its sentiment clear yesterday by approving the immigration bill by the gaping margin
of 37-11 and firing it on to the House.
This is the bill that would make businesses liable for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
With this…