MAY 16-22, 2011
This week, read about how Verizon Wireless Music Center is responding to an industry shift toward smaller venues and see why neighborhood rehabs aren't happening faster in Indianapolis. In Focus, find out how some doctors are finding more time for patients. And Mickey Maurer shares some sage advice from the late Bill Cook.
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Retail, eateries planned for Keystone office area
A local developer’s $12 million project is transforming a four-story office building and five acres of surface parking lots adjacent to The Fashion Mall at Keystone into a new retail and restaurant destination.
Read MoreZionsville residents disagree on commercial development
After property tax caps crimped local dollars in Zionsville and a school funding referendum failed, many residents have decided it’s time to attract more commercial development. But they are tangled in a hot dispute over how to achieve that goal.
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City slow to spend $29M in federal funding for neighborhoods
Indianapolis has lagged in making payments to not-for-profit developers executing a huge federal program to rehab neighborhoods, putting a strain on those groups and setting the city behind in spending its share of the money.
Read MoreVerizon amphitheater alters strategy amid industry shift
Live Nation Entertainment has scaled back summer concert schedules at large amphitheaters across the country, and that includes one of its top performers, Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville.
Read MorePurdue professor analyzes risk, dissects failures
For 25 years, Venkat Venkatasubramanian, the Reilly professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, has studied how to keep horrendously complicated, excruciatingly twitchy technological edifices from collapsing under their own weight.
Read MoreEli Lilly’s slumbering stock finally shows signs of life
Is it finally time to get some growth again out of a stock that since its debut on the public market 59 years ago has minted thousands of millionaires?
Read MoreIndyCar Series speeding toward new era in 2012
The centennial running of the Indianapolis 500 this year is almost overshadowed by changes that will make next year among the most important in the history of open-wheel racing.
Read MoreNestle Waters CEO favors industry recycling programs
The head of the continent’s largest producer of bottled water told Indiana recycling advocates his industry should take more responsibility in the reuse of plastic bottles.
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Reform could create more ’boutique’ doctors
Health reform could accelerate trend toward two tiers of care, with concierge services like Dr. Matt Priddy offers at the top and long waits and minimal attention at the bottom.
Read MoreHealth care providers opening to technology
Some health care system are finally allowing online scheduling.
Read MoreMANTOOTH: Companies bogged down by employees’ poor health
The problem is, too many people make unhealthy choices and the consequences of these choices become everyone’s problem.
Read MoreBISHOP: Warsaw’s orthopedics whizzes will master biologics
Industry cluster in northern Indiana has adapted to every other change in health care, and will absorb tissue regeneration, too.
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EDITORIAL: Interstate network isn’t enough
Our country’s transportation future is too uncertain for Hoosiers to be almost entirely dependent on cars.
Read MoreMAURER: Sage advice from the late Bill Cook
We had been friends for less than a decade, but in a sense those were some of his best years—years of philanthropy, of passionate restoration.
Read MoreMARCUS: High school principals as economic drivers
From time to time, I am asked: “What is the best investment for Indiana’s economic development”? The answer: our high-school-age young men and women.
Read MoreSLAUGHTER: We need a remote-work revolution
It turns out that, although we think of glass towers, cubicles and filing cabinets as the places where we go to accomplish something, the office is a terrible place to get anything done.
Read MoreHICKS: Gas prices explained by simple economics
Oil prices are affected by the demand for petroleum products, the available supply of oil, the value of the currency in which it is denominated, and uncertainty about future supply or demand.
Read MoreSKARBECK: Microsoft stuck in 1990s when acquiring companies
Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion, announced May 10, continues a long history of a lack of price discipline in Silicon Valley.
Read MoreGood riddance to abortion funding
Congratulations are due Gov. Daniels and the Indiana Legislature for taking action to suspend public dollars to “family planning” organizations who perpetuate the continuing slaughter of the tiniest, most innocent human beings.
Read MorePowerful must learn hard lessons
In light of our most recent General Assembly, I believe the top 1 percent of Indiana went to bat for the top 1 percent and then kicked the other 99 percent [who were] fooled into electing them in the teeth.
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Financial strength ratings of OneAmerica subsidiaries climb even higher
Indianapolis-based firm avoided investment losses suffered by peers during last recession.
Read MoreNumber of Indiana arts organizations increased in 2010
Positive numbers could signal growth in sector that continues to lose jobs.
Read MoreAIDS Fund event nets high percentage of proceeds
Spotlight returns 93 cents on the dollar for grants to HIV and STD prevention, outreach and testing programs across the state.
Read MorePacers TV ratings increase even as attendance dips
Viewership for Pacers games on Fox Sports increased 35 percent this year over last, according to New York-based Nielsen Media Research.
Read MoreDocumentary touts sustainable building practices in Indy
The hour-long film, dubbed “Green Building in Indianapolis: Creating a Sustainable Future,” was released on You Tube last month.
Read MoreSlingshot SEO takes top prize at TechPoint’s Mira Awards
Slingshot, a search engine optimization firm, plans to add at least 100 jobs by 2013.
Read MoreAirport lands second valet service
CurbsideValet is on the north end of the terminal, along the departure-level curb.
Read MorePROXY CORNER: Simon Property Group Inc.
Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, manages, leases and develops regional malls and community shopping centers.
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