Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of San Diego is awarded a $248,225,000 modification to a Naval Air Systems Command contract to procure two additional low-rate initial production Lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems for the Navy. Indianapolis will be [...]
Fred Payne is stepping down from his post as commissioner of the Department of Workforce Development on July 8 after more than four years to become the next president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Central [...]
Effective July 1, ITR Concessions Co. LLC, the operator for the Indiana Toll Road lease, is raising tolls for travel on I-90 from the Ohio state line to the Chicago Skyway from $12.30 to $13.50 for a typical two-axle [...]
There’s an interesting new study authored by a trio of Stanford University researchers on “Polarization and State Legislative Elections” that should start you thinking – or confirm your suspicions. Here’s the abstract, complete with the spoiler: U.S. state legislatures [...]
Something to watch locally: the Brennan Center for Justice issues a new report, Financing of Races for Offices that Oversee Elections: May 2022 that finds “Candidates who push election denial are winning primaries and leading fundraising in races for [...]
Indiana earns some international props for its logistics networks when Indianapolis International Airport was the destination for a U.S. military flight conveying 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula manufactured in Switzerland from Ramstein [...]
Whitney Ertel will serve as the new executive director of the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet effective May 31. Most recently Ertel served as the chief business officer and chief communications officer for the Department of Workforce Development where she helped [...]
Agricultural land values for the five-state Seventh Federal Reserve District to which Indiana belongs jump by almost one quarter (23) percent in the first quarter of 2022 from the prior year quarter, continuing the recent streak of sharp year-over-year [...]
Yet another consent decree is signed by an Indiana steel manufacturer over Lake Michigan pollution. Cleveland Cliffs, owner of the Burns Harbor steel mill, enters into a deal t0 settle charges over an August 2019 discharge of cyanide and [...]
Here’s some news that you don’t hear too often: in Jennings County, the Columbus Republic reports, “Republican Mayor Mike Ochs will step down next year after two terms and has thrown his support to North Vernon’s Democratic clerk-treasurer as [...]