Poll: Many pessimistic about improving standard of living
Most of those polled said that raising a family and owning a home are important to them, but more than half said these goals are harder to achieve compared with their parents’ generation.
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U.S. job openings drop to 10.1M, lowest since June 2021
U.S. job openings plummeted in August, likely a welcome sign for Federal Reserve officials as they seek to cool demand for workers without triggering a spike in unemployment.
Real estate brokerage tabs new market director for Indianapolis
Kimber Kinsley joins CBRE from Diageo, a global alcoholic beverage conglomerate, where she worked as a sales analytics manager with a focus on increasing revenue by limiting risks.
Could allegations against Morales tilt secretary of state’s race?
Indiana Republican secretary of state candidate Diego Morales strongly denies the allegations of sexual misconduct, but they could have political ramifications in next month’s election.
Carmel Mayor Brainard gets 5.99% pay raise for final year in office
The Carmel City Council on Monday night voted to approve the salary increase for Mayor Jim Brainard and for City Court Judge Brian Poindexter, Clerk Sue Wolfgang and the city council.
IndyGo completes $6.6M Delaware Street project with Indy DPW
IndyGo is taking steps to make some of its regular bus stops more like the decked-out stops along its rapid-transit lines, starting with its first “super stop,” which it unveiled Monday.
Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice
The new member of the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wasted no time engaging, asking questions throughout nearly two hours of arguments in the dispute over the nation’s main anti-water pollution law, the Clean Water Act.
Indiana ACLU: No rush to halt judge’s pause on abortion ban
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana called the state’s motion “hastily filed” and argued the case does not need to go to the Indiana Supreme Court.
Federal employee health care premiums to rise 8.7% on average
That change in Federal Employees Health Benefits Program premiums is significantly larger than last year’s rise and marks the biggest increase in more than a decade, the government announced Friday.
COVID boosters offer 4 to 5 months of protection, study finds
The national study co-authored by researchers at Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute and other agencies across the country was designed to gauge the effectiveness and durability of the third and fourth doses of COVID vaccine boosters.
Chief of Roche Diagnostics North America leaving Indy for larger corporate job
Matt Sause, president and CEO of Roche Diagnostics North America since 2019, has been named CEO of Roche Diagnostics and a member of the corporate executive committee. He will relocate to the parent company’s offices in Basel, Switzerland.
Health system Ascension to close hospital, 9 medical practices in Indiana
The closure of the hospital will result in the layoffs of 77 employees, and more than 50 employees will be affected by the closures of the nine practices.
Quiet, introverted Thompson takes helm of Indiana Ways and Means Committee
More than 20 years into his legislative career, Rep. Jeffrey Thompson be leading the General Assembly in drafting the state’s two-year budget for the first time
Coping with climate change making electrician a very hot career
The mantra of energy experts has been that we need to electrify everything. But installing all of that stuff—the solar panels, the heat pumps, the transmission lines—will require something that the United States doesn’t have: lots and lots of electricians.
O’Laughlin, former Indianapolis clerk and Indiana treasurer, dies at 93
Marjorie O’Laughlin’s political career began when she was asked by mayoral candidate Richard Lugar, a classmate from Shortridge High School, to run for city clerk in 1967.
Whole lotta zeros: Apple Music crosses 100M song barrier
Apple Music says the milestone cements it as the world’s largest catalog of music, more than YouTube Music’s 80 million songs, Spotify’s 82 million tracks and podcasts, and Amazon Music’s 90 million songs.
Fraud, scam cases increasing on Zelle, Senate report finds
Since being launched in June 2017, Zelle has become a popular way for bank customers to send money to friends and family. A new report says large banks who partly own the service have been reluctant to compensate customers who have been victims of fraud or scams.
IBJ Podcast: GangGang’s founders on promoting art, equity and Indy culture
In just two years, the arts and culture startup known as GangGang has become one of the most influential and active producers of events in Indianapolis, promoting the creative economy and the concept of equity.
IPS planning to end agreements with two innovation schools
If their innovation agreements end, Urban Act and Super School 19 would be the third and fourth schools to be removed from the innovation network by the district since the creation of such schools under state law in 2014.
Increasingly, perfect starter homes are only available for rent
The construction of tens of thousands of rental homes could help rebalance the broader housing market. But critics say build-to-rent arrangements are exacerbating long-simmering inequalities by making homeownership even more elusive.