UPDATE: State off to slow start boosting veteran businesses
State figures show that about 1 percent of contracts have gone to Veterans Business Enterprises, while Gov. Mike Pence set a 3-percent goal when the push started last summer.
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Council to consider citywide landlord registry
Indianapolis landlords would have to register with the city by Jan. 1 or face a $500 fine under a proposal that will be introduced to the City-County Council on Monday night.
Financial questions hound Indiana state treasurer candidates
Financial questions from years-old deals are dogging two top candidates seeking the Republican nomination for state treasurer and evoking memories of previous intraparty battles.
Democratic gathering spurs talk of 2016 candidates
The official business of the Indiana Democrats' convention Saturday may have been to formally nominate candidates for 2014, but much of the talk was about two politicians eyeing a run for governor.
Indianapolis cancels cricket championship
“Deteriorating” communications with the sponsoring organization forced the decision, the city of Indianapolis announced Friday afternoon.
Shinseki resigns amid veterans’ health care issues
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday after publicly apologizing for systemic problems plaguing the agency's health care system.
Lottery commission OKs new multistate Monopoly game
Under its aggressive sales strategy for the next fiscal year, the Hoosier Lottery’s operator will add games including Monopoly Millionaires’ Club and Bingo To Go.
Pedcor angling for $16M subsidy for City Center expansion
Preliminary plans call for starting work on a parking garage and as many as three mixed-use buildings this fall, with another half-dozen projects in the pipeline.
Political conventions fell short on return on investment
Daunting scheduling and fundraising challenges led city officials to walk away from opportunities to bid on the 2016 national conventions for both Republicans and Democrats, but the city’s latest Super Bowl setback might make the 2020 political conventions alluring.
Operator of lottery stands by lofty goals
Gtech Indiana says it can generate unprecedented growth by focusing on the basics. Rather than trying to add new types of games or turning to Internet gambling, the company plans a slightly different mix of games and a whole lot more opportunities for Hoosiers to buy them.
Government groups tap civic ‘hackers’ to address problems
A collection of tech firms and business organizations will host a “hackathon” on Saturday at The Speak Easy, a Broad Ripple co-working club for entrepreneurs.
Push grows for Shinseki to go as veteran care flaws found
A report found the VA’s Eastern Area Fiduciary Hub in Indianapolis was “not timely processing allegations of misuse of beneficiary funds, conducting field examinations, and processing some incoming mail.”
UPDATE: Manufacturer plans $110M expansion, 329 jobs
Alcoa Howmet factory in LaPorte, which makes castings for the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries, will receive local and state tax breaks in return for job commitments.
Pence’s HIP 2.0 plan gets kudos at first public hearing
Health care professionals and advocates for the poor voiced praise and support Wednesday for a plan by Gov. Mike Pence to expand the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan to provide more insurance coverage to Hoosiers.
Teamwork transforming care at IU Health’s Saxony hospital
Getting everyone into the same room prior to surgeries is cutting costs and improving health.
Indianapolis part of new federal STEM initiative
President Barack Obama drew attention to girls’ science and engineering accomplishments Tuesday as he announced a mentoring effort involving Indianapolis to improve and diversify the nation’s technological work force.
OurHealth to add employer clinics, 450 jobs by 2018
The 5-year-old firm has pledged to invest $20 million to double the size of its corporate headquarters in Indianapolis and lease real estate for a series of 3,500-square-foot health clinics across the state.
Former Chase employee gets 16-month prison sentence
An Indianapolis woman embezzled more than $400,000 from JP Morgan Chase in an electronic-transfer scheme that lasted eight years.
Indiana cities getting money to fight urban blight
Indianapolis, Lawrence, Gary and two other Indiana cities have received a total of about $15 million to help eliminate blighted and abandoned homes.
Hearings set for Healthy Indiana Plan expansion
Two public hearings are scheduled this week on Gov. Mike Pence's plan to use Medicaid funds to expand the Healthy Indiana Plan to provide insurance under the federal health care overhaul.