While he voted in favor of it, Congressman Joe Donnelly says the health care bill passed by the House still needs work.
Bosak Chrysler Jeep in Merrillville is adding the Dodge brand to its portfolio.
Nike has inked a deal to host weekend basketball tournaments in Hobart for 10 months of the year.
A former St. Joseph County commissioner has opened a vodka distillery in Mishawaka.
The Northwest Indiana Forum (Forum) will host the 2010 Indiana Chamber of Commerce Legislative Preview featuring Kevin Brinegar, President of the Indiana Chamber on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at the Forum Auditorium (6100 Southport Road, Portage).
The session begins at 7:30am with continental breakfast and networking followed by the presentation and discussion (including Q&A) from 8:00-9:30am.
Business leaders throughout the region are invited to attend. To register for the complimentary program, contact klauerman@nwiforum.org or 219/763-6303 x181.
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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is seeking public comment on its draft four-year Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The Draft STIP will be available for review starting Monday, November 16 on INDOT’s Web site, http://indot.IN.gov, and at six regional open houses around the state.
The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program is a document required by federal law projecting capital investments involving federal funds and other regionally significant improvements for the next four fiscal years. Funding sources include traditional state and federal tax revenues, and Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Major Moves highway program. Federal funding levels are based upon the current federal surface transportation act, SAFETEA-LU, which has been extended through December 18.
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The State of Indiana’s efforts to counter the recession are paying off. Still, reduced tax revenues are forcing Indiana to make painful choices like paying hospitals less to treat Medicaid patients.
The Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend has launched a fundraising campaign for a new St. Joseph’s High School. The Diocese hopes to raise $35.5 million by June 2011.
Indianapolis, Evansville and South Bend all slipped down the Milken Institute’s 2009 Best Performing Cities list, which ranks cities on creating jobs and economic growth. Moving up were Elkhart and Gary.
Debtholders of Gary’s Majestic Star Casino will exercise their default rights after the casino missed multiple interest payments on its debt.
The SSCVA is denying that it gave its blessing to a proposed a $59 million hotel, conference center and sports complex in Hobart.
Yet another area car dealership, Jack Connors Buick in Chesterton, is having its franchise stripped by GM. The dealership, which is seeking a replacement franchise, will lose its Buick franchise in October of next year.
Manufacturing Technology, Inc., a South Bend-based company that provides friction welding technology and services, was named as Ijndiana’s Small Business of the Year by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
A fourth-generation family-owned business, MTI primarily builds machines that carry out the friction welding process (the solid state joining of two parts using frictional heat and applied force to create a forge-quality weld). MTI also sells the only line of frictional welders worldwide that includes all three major variations: rotational, linear and stir.
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Porter County will finally mail out last May’s property tax bills next week.
The City of La Porte is recommending that the state not renew a local bar’s liquor license after repeated incidents of fights, drug use and vandalism in and around the establishment.
All but one area casino saw revenues increase in October.
The South Shore Fiber Link continues to draw interest.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels today initiated state agency spending reductions following the fourth straight month of lower-than-forecast state revenues for Fiscal Year 2010.
For October, revenue collections were again below the May 2009 forecast. Total tax collections were $46 million below the forecast amount for the month. For the first four months of the fiscal year, general fund revenues are $309 million or 7.4 percent below forecast.
“We have seen enough to know that new actions are necessary if we are going to protect Indiana taxpayers against the tax increases that are happening in most of the rest of America,” said Daniels. “Indiana has distinguished itself among the states, avoided tax increases, maintained all vital services, because we have been willing to act on time, to deal with our difficulties.”
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Merrillville-based NiSource Inc. has been ranked fourth out of 37 U.S. utilities in Newsweek magazine’s “Green Rankings” of the nation’s largest corporations.
Newsweek and three research partners compiled the rankings by assessing each company’s resource use and emissions; policies and strategies; and reputation among peers. The nation’s 500 largest companies, as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees, were broken out into 15 sectors.
NiSource was ranked fourth among companies in the utility industry sector and 211th overall. NiSource’s “Green Policies” score – an assessment of a company’s environmental policies and performance – was first in the utility sector and 40th among all companies in the ranking.
“NiSource’s strong ranking on the Newsweek Green List is consistent with our ongoing commitment to sustainability, contemporary governance practices, and a solid foundation of core business values,” NiSource President & CEO Robert C. Skaggs Jr. noted. “By this measure and others, we are making tangible progress on our path to becoming North America’s premier regulated energy company.”
Newsweek’s complete Green Rankings are available online at http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/.
Purdue University Calumet’s innovative equine management academic program has been awarded the Distinguished Education Award for Creative and Innovative Education from the Academy of Educational Leadership.
Recognition criteria include the ongoing delivery of outstanding instruction and education plus the practice of innovative and creative education.
Purdue Calumet offers a major study program in equine business management within its Bachelor of Arts in Business degree, as well as an 18-credit hour, online, equine management professional certificate in partnership with Purdue’s West Lafayette campus.
The curricula in both programs focus on preparing students for business-related positions in the horse industry, including those of farm, riding academy, and equine sport facility managers; show facility administrators; equine insurance brokers/adjustors; and breeding & governance, sales & breeding, and equine product sales positions.
“That scholars at an international conference recognized our program’s quality of instruction and innovation makes this award significant,” Purdue Calumet Equine Management Program Coordinator and Associate Professor Susan Conners said. “I believe our experiential and distance learning components contributed to this recognition.”