Pence: State on right track, but too many Hoosiers out of work
Gov. Mike Pence challenged members of the Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis to encourage out-of-state entrepreneurs to consider building their businesses in Indiana.
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Small business caucus sets central Indiana meetings
The Indiana General Assembly's Small Business Caucus will hold town hall meetings across the central Indiana the next two weeks to discuss the issues facing small businesses.
Pence says new agency to help students find work
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he's creating a new state agency that will gear public education to better meet the needs of employers, a move that the state's top public education official said she was not consulted on.
BMV says drivers owe $130M in uncollected fees
Elizabeth Murphy, general counsel for the BMV, told lawmakers at a meeting of the Interim Study Committee on Insurance that uncollected fees have averaged anywhere from $11 million to $13 million annually over the past few years.
Indiana board considers 1-year delay of patient tests
Indiana's Medical Licensing Board is considering delaying for one year a proposed new rule that would require physicians to conduct annual toxicology tests on some patients as part of a larger state effort to crack down on prescription drug abuse.
Ballard wins allies for cricket strategy
Both sides of the political aisle are howling that the $6 million transforming Post Road Community Park into the Indianapolis World Sports Park could be better spent. Yet a powerful group of people and organizations says the 48-acre park championed by Mayor Greg Ballard is already paying off and will score even bigger dividends in the future.
Special Report: City’s building spree leaves trail of spoils
Mayor Greg Ballard takes pride in Rebuild Indy, the city’s nearly $400 million program that doubled the volume of public works projects—and became engineering and construction firms’ largest business opportunity with the city in more than a decade.
Central Indiana city yanks support from solar-panel maker
Columbus is shutting off some of its financial assistance to a solar panel manufacturer because the company hasn't hired enough workers.
State panel on improving child lives meets first time
The commission grew out of a review last year of complaints about the Indiana Department of Child Services.
Legislators mull allowing farm wineries to sell direct
Indiana wineries complain that current rules about selling to retailers and dealers are onerous and can mean splitting up a family business.
Indiana group to oppose gay marriage amendment
An alliance of businesses and human rights groups is launching an effort to defeat passage of an amendment that would write Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution.
Pence aide leaving post, had role in grade scandal
Gov. Mike Pence’s chief lobbyist, Heather Neal, who was chief of staff to former Indiana schools Superintendent Tony Bennett last year, will join Limestone Strategies as president of its public affairs practice.
Video game distributor plans local warehouse, 40 jobs
Solutions 2 Go LLC, a California-based distributor of specialized video game products, said that it will invest $3.3 million to open a facility in Indianapolis, creating the jobs by 2016.
Sawyer sworn in as state auditor
Dwayne Sawyer is the first black Republican to hold a statewide office in Indiana.
Emails show Daniels favored Bill Bennett over Zinn
When the governor discovered the board of education had changed the state's textbook rules to allow Bill Bennett's book, he quickly asked how soon his advisers could get copies of "The Last Best Hope" in classrooms.
Ballard again targets homestead credit in latest budget proposal
Mayor Greg Ballard will introduce a $1 billion budget for 2014 Monday night that chops the Marion County Sheriff’s spending and once again hinges on a complicated reshuffling of tax revenue.
ACLU fires lawsuit at city on behalf of panhandlers
The suit, filed Friday, says four plaintiffs were soliciting donations downtown within the past week when they were asked by city police to cease the activity and leave the area. The plaintiffs were not violating the city’s existing panhandling ordinance, the lawsuit says.
Summertime and the reading is easy and prize-worthy
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library’s summer reading program attracted almost 60,000 participants this year—the most since 2004.
Spurned Indy continues to court manufacturing
Indianapolis is losing manufacturing jobs at a steady, some would say alarming, rate. And the Circle City is not alone, as many metro areas face serious challenges in retaining and attracting manufacturers.
Broad Ripple apartment project gets preliminary approval
The controversial residential-and-retail development along the Central Canal got the nod from a city hearing examiner on Thursday. A zoning change and variances for the project still require additional approval.