Candy store aims for sweet success
A focus on old-world quality with modern services and efficiency drives the owners of Simply Sweet Shoppe & Second Story Playhouse.
A focus on old-world quality with modern services and efficiency drives the owners of Simply Sweet Shoppe & Second Story Playhouse.
The people overseeing the Indiana State Teachers Association Insurance Trust had no background in investments or insurance, likely leaving them ill-equipped to grasp the ever-larger amounts of complicated investments the trust was buying.
This week, challenging work at the IMA, an impressive operatic collaboration, and laugh-out-loud silliness.
The media and other hackers gathered at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel recently to hear about plans for the upcoming U.S.
Men’s Senior Open, then tested their limited skills on the golf course.
Within a month of joining the board of Evansville’s Integra Bank Corp. Mike Alley, former CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp’s central Indiana operations, had become Integra’s interim CEO.
On May 15, the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Gov. Mitch Daniels laying out his sharp opposition to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would set limits on carbon emissions to combat global warming.
In a state steeped in advanced research that spawns biomedical companies by the dozen, Apricity LLC is preposterously low-tech,
given that its latest product is nothing more than a warm blanket.
This week, challenging work at the IMA, an impressive operatic collaboration, and laugh-out-loud silliness. Stunningly beautiful and infuriatingly smug, isolating and compelling, baffling and smart, ‘Rape of the Sabine Women” is, in theory, the anchoring work of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s current “Adaptation” show. I say “in theory” because, unless you plan carefully and […]
The media and other hackers gathered at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel recently to hear about plans for the upcoming U.S. Men’s Senior Open, then tested their limited skills on the golf course. I had an absolutely glorious and funfilled day, except for the nine lost balls, which, in my “Tin Cup” moment, included […]
In a state steeped in advanced research that spawns biomedical companies by the dozen, Apricity LLC is preposterously low-tech. Its founders-Mark Kyker and Steve Isenberg-are medical doctors, not university or Fortune 500 scientists. And its latest product is nothing more than a warm blanket. As unremarkable as it sounds, the blanket has the potential to […]
The people overseeing the ISTA Insurance Trust had no background in investments or insurance, likely leaving them ill-equipped to grasp the ever-larger amounts of complicated investments the trust was buying. The Indiana State Teachers Association, the state’s union of public school teachers, tapped educators for all the positions on the trust’s board-seven current or former […]
No, the 1970s haven’t returned at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Still, there are a few signs at the Brickyard today that indicate a nice sized crowd has arrived on the west side of…
A bankruptcy judge yesterday denied a motion from a pair of Indiana state pension funds and a state construction fund to delay the proposed sale of most of Chrysler’s assets, saying the funds’ plan to challenge the legality of the sale in another court wasn’t enough of a reason to push back the proceedings. U.S. […]
The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment insurance dropped slightly last week after spiking the week before due to auto layoffs. Meanwhille, continuing jobless claims inched closer to 7 million. The Labor Department said today that initial claims for jobless benefits fell to a seasonally adjusted 631,000, down from a revised figure of 643,000 […]
A Hamilton County judge yesterday ordered the wife of a former Conseco Inc. director to pay the insurer $5 million in its ongoing quest to recover unpaid stock loans. The judgment against Margaret Massey, wife of James D. Massey, stems from a November ruling from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Basil H. Lorch III that said Conseco […]
A bankruptcy judge yesterday denied a motion from a pair of Indiana state pension funds and a state construction fund to delay the proposed sale of most of Chrysler’s assets, saying the funds’ plan to challenge the legality of the sale in another court wasn’t enough of a reason to push back the proceedings. Normal […]
A federal jury returned a verdict that a major energy company violated clean-air rules at a coal-fired power plant along the Ohio River in southeast Indiana. The Southern District of Indiana verdict Tuesday night came following six days of trial and eight hours of jury deliberation in U.S., et al. v. Cinergy Corp., et al., […]
A Hamilton County judge today ordered the wife of a former Conseco Inc. director to pay the insurer $5 million in its ongoing quest to recover unpaid stock loans. The judgment against Margaret Massey, wife of James D. Massey, stems from a November ruling from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Basil H. Lorch III that said Conseco […]
State Farm Insurance will pay $275,000 and continue to re-evaluate thousands of unpaid claims from a 2006 hailstorm that hit Indiana. The payment, announced today by the Indiana Department of Insurance, will go to the state’s general fund to cover the cost of the department’s examination of State Farm. It comes on top of nearly […]
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.