First decade of century marked by buyouts and bubbles
The decade witnessed a massive terrorist attack, two wars, and a building-and-buyout boom fueled by easy credit.
The decade witnessed a massive terrorist attack, two wars, and a building-and-buyout boom fueled by easy credit.
Hidden Toilet Paper, a small business in Fishers, patented a device that installs toilet-paper rolls into walls, keeping paper
safe from pets and children.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Jeff Belskus’ actions might offer a glimpse of what the Capital Improvement Board’s new chief,
Ann Lathrop, will do with Pacers, IUPUI and other challenges.
Indianapolis’ Office of
Sustainability has begun evaluating recommendations on ways to make 70 city-owned buildings more "green." Among
the ideas: mounting
wind turbines or solar panels at the City-County Building.
Indiana’s unemployment rate ticked downward in November, falling to 9.6 percent, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development
said Friday morning.
Daily newspapers on Thursday filed a motion seeking to unseal search warrant documents related to the federal investigation
of Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Doug Logan is shaking up the sport and hopes to add more events, which could pay off for Indianapolis.
Carl Brizzi partnered on a bank branch, took an ownership interest in an office building and flipped condos.
Changes are coming to the Brickyard Crossing Golf Resort, but the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which owns the facility,
has no intention of selling it.
Birk Billingsley, of Krieg DeVault LLP, sidelines in neckwear.
Short sales and foreclosures in this 2,200-unit development began cropping up several years ago and continue today.
There’s something refreshing and inspiring about individuals who set ambitious goals and throw themselves into
meeting them.
Jim Irsay and Peyton Manning could earn huge financial rewards if the Indianapolis Colts complete a perfect season. NFL brass
putting pressure on team to try.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of new jobless claims rose to 480,000 last week, up 7,000 from the previous
week.
Lawmakers are likely to pass property tax legislation, which would send it to a voter referendum in November and potentially
into the state constitution.
New Brickyard boss may realize that the cost of financing the Indy Racing League is outstripping the shrinking profits of
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Carmel-based Dormir Inc. acquired a string of sleep-study centers and equipment stores in California,
Oregon and Utah, making it the nation’s second-largest provider of sleep-diagnostic services in the country behind SleepMed
Inc., headquartered in Columbia, S.C. The sleep centers and equipment stores were part of two subsidiaries of Australia-based
Avastra Sleep Centres Ltd. They give Dormir 85 locations in 16 states. Financial terms of the deal were
not disclosed.
Eli Lilly and Co. said it won approval for a new long-acting
version of its bestselling antipsychotic Zyprexa. The new version has patents that could extend until
2018. Investors have shunned Lilly’s stock this year because they say Indianapolis-based Lilly does not have enough new
drugs to offset the loss of Zyprexa revenue that will occur after the drug loses its patents in 2011. Lilly issued a forecast
for 2012-2014 that suggested its profits could fall by as much as one-third from their present levels.
Lilly
Endowment Inc. will give $60 million to the Indiana University School of Medicine
to implement its new Indiana Physician Scientist Initiative that aims to turn discoveries that could
improve human health into products and treatments that benefit patients and produce new businesses. Dr. David Wilkes,
executive associate dean for research affairs at the IU School of Medicine, will direct the Indiana Physician Scientist Initiative.
Its biggest goal is to recruit 20 physician-scientists to the IU med school to focus on cancer, neurosciences and diabetes/vascular
disease.
Scientists have made chemotherapy drugs better at reducing side effects by engineering them to bind only
to cancerous cells. But researchers at Purdue University are taking an entirely different approach. They
used cold and magnetic particles to create nanorods—about 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. They then coated these
rods with the breast cancer drug Herceptin and inserted them into breast tumors. Professor Joseph Irudayaraj and graduate
student Jiji Chen wrote about their work in the journal ACS Nano.
The Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation
gave $1 million to Indiana University to form a school of public health at IUPUI. Indiana University will
build the school using faculty from its medical school and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Two Fort Wayne consulting firms are joining forces in an attempt to do more work for financially
strapped doctors and hospitals. MedOptima and Ruffolo Benson LLC now
offer expertise in improving billing and other processes, as well as finding capital.
In the
latest combination of fitness and physicians, St. Vincent Health has opened
a rehab therapy clinic at the Fishers YMCA. The 3,900-square-foot clinic will offer
orthopedic, neurological and general rehab care. The first local example of such a partnership is the Westview Healthplex
Sports Club on Guion Road operated by Westview Hospital. Also, Hendricks Regional Health
is working with YMCA to build a joint facility in Avon.
Belt tightening for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League continues with the much-anticipated announcement
that the Brickyard’s "month of May" activities will be shortened in 2010.
Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, helped
shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration and wrote a textbook read by millions of college students, died Sunday.
Police are searching for a scam artist who pretends to be a city utility inspector. So far, the thief has targeted older women
in locations including Clinton County north of Indianapolis, Cicero, Zionsville and Speedway. Investigators say the scammer
gets the victims to go behind their homes with him, instructs them to wait outside, then goes inside and steals valuables.