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A couple of weeks ago, I returned home one evening to find our old cable TV box sitting on the kitchen table. My wife had grown tired of the high price for our bundled cable TV and broadband Internet and called a rival company. When she was quoted the new price, it was out with the old and in with the new at record speed. It turns out that there was a nice, new service available on our street that…
Indianapolis is becoming a much more international city. Consider some of the facts: Central Indiana’s Latino population is now 100,000, fifth-fastest-growing in the United States; one in five scientists at Eli Lilly is Chinese; and 2,000 Burmese immigrants live here. These tidbits and mounds of other information about immigration in our community can be found in the International Center’s coffee-table book, “New Faces at the Crossroads: The World in Central Indiana.” The book also contains the stories and beautiful photographs…
At Indianapolis-based Adult and Child Mental Health Center Inc., Executive Director Bob Dunbar has developed a contingency plan as he works on the agency’s $25 million budget for next year. He has two versions of a spending plan for the center, which provides mental health services for 4,200 children and adults a year. One includes moderate cuts tied to state funding changes, and the other deals with massive cuts pushed by the federal government. In the worst-case scenario, as much…
The Malibus and Impalas disappeared from Payton Wells Chevrolet more than 18 months ago, but the controversy over the defunct
dealership at 1510 N. Meridian St. is far from being in the rearview mirror for some of the city’s top businesspeople and
developers. A court battle over the dealership’s properties could determine when and how the roughly six acres of prime land
are redeveloped.
Bill Corley, who announced today that he will retire after 25 years as CEO of Community Health Network, says doctors nearly ran him out of the hospital within months of his arrival in 1984. Doctors mutinied because they tied Corley’s appearance to a new approach by the federal government to limit reimbursements for certain services. […]
Expect the state economy in coming months to feel like a head cold that won’t go away. And the Indianapolis area won’t escape the doldrums. That’s the take from the latest quarterly forecast issued by a group of Indiana University economists. The Center for Econometric Model Research says the state will suffer declining employment and […]
The Capital Improvement Board likely will buy one-story building across the street from the new Lucas Oil Stadium. The board has an option to purchase the Easterday property, which it has been…
Check out this new rendering of the visitor center for the $25 million Virginia B. Fairbank’s Art & Nature Park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Check out more images and…
Hurco Cos. Inc. has been ranked No. 30 on Business Week’s annual list of Hot Growth Companies. The magazine based the rank on sales growth and how companies compared with larger companies in their respective industries. The Indianapolis-based machine tool maker has experienced a surge in exports due to increased marketing abroad and the cheap […]
Longtime Community Health Network CEO Bill Corley will retire at the end of 2009, according to an internal memo he released to employees today. Corley, 65, has held the post since 1984. A search committee has been formed to seek Corley’s successor. It will consider internal and external applicants, the memo said. Corley said in […]
Heating houses and businesses with natural gas this winter could cost as much as 50 percent more than last year. Gas is trading at about $12 a decatherm, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. That price is significantly higher than the $8 charged on average last winter by […]
Here’s more on the works that will be part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Art and Nature Park, courtesy of IBJ reporter Jennifer Whitson.
Atelier Van Lieshout, a Danish studio run by artist Joop van Lieshout,…
IBJ reporter Jennifer Whitson takes over the blog today with a sneak peek at some of the work planned for the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s backyard.
Today, the IMA is releasing preliminary renderings for three of the eight inaugural artworks slated…
The Detroit Free-Press reported that fans watching last weekend’s Red Bull Air Race World Series along the Detroit River got a “thrill-chill.”
The crowd size assembled along the river banks might have thrilled Indianapolis…
Sign Craft Industries, a full-service sign-making company headquartered in Indianapolis, has acquired cross-town sign maker Sign Studio for an undisclosed price, the companies announced today. Sign Studio specializes in electric signs. The acquisition will raise Sign Craft revenue to a projected $6 million this year. It was 4th on IBJ’s 2007 list of the largest […]
Since “The Sopranos” staged its final hit, “Desperate Housewives” became, well, desperate, and “American Idol” lost some of its water-cooler luster, I’m hearing fewer people outside of the media talk about television shows. (Except for…
An advertising blitz launched by Shelbyville officials to lure workers arriving at the Honda Manufacturing of Indiana plant in nearby Greensburg is working, one of its backers says. Dan Theobald, executive director of Shelby County Development Corp., is aware of at least seven families that have settled in Shelbyville as a result of the campaign, […]
Author Solutions Inc. will transfer jobs from China to its home base in Bloomington as part of an expansion announced today. The provider of self-publishing services will spend $4.5 million on the consolidation, which will add 140 jobs to its headquarters. Author Solutions already employs 230 in Bloomington, and another 50 in Indianapolis. It maintained […]
Health advocates beamed with a â??told-you-soâ?? response this week when state officials announced that cigarette
sales dropped dramatically after taxes were raised last July.
Sales fell nearly 18 percent, apparently a direct result of boosting the tax 44 cents to a…
The Indiana Pacers will host a party at Conseco Fieldhouse on June 26, where fans can watch the 2008 NBA Draft and hear from Pacers executives about the team’s draft. This marks the…
