How Sweetwater Beat The Pandemic Odds

For the Fort Wayne musical instrument behemoth Sweetwater, the past year-plus' outlook has been surprisingly upbeat.
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The New Hoosier Farmer: Needs a Lawyer

In simpler times, Bowman’s plan might have passed for good old Hoosier ingenuity. Unfortunately, Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company—and a notorious ball-buster—doesn’t see it that way. And neither did the highest court in the land.
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Flashback: The Colts Come to Indy—30 Years Later

The arrival of the Colts has brought to an end the all-too-familiar question, “Where’s the beef?” In its place is the all-important question, “Where are the tickets?”

Speed Read: Toll Roads In Indiana

Save for one portion of a Northern Indiana highway, the Hoosier state contains no toll roads. But that may change. Thanks to a new state law, vast stretches of blacktop, from I-69 to I-465, are cleared to sprout toll readers. Does this mean we could soon be like our friends in Chicagoland, coughing up a few bucks every time we jump on a highway to go to work or run errands? Here’s a primer on tolls, past and future.
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Indy Native Eve Wright Taylor Makes It Big—with the Miami Heat!

Taylor, an IU Law School grad and member of the Heat front office, is one of a growing group of female and minority executives in the NBA, whose teams last year employed 44 women as VPs,

Why Bikeshare Will Work in Indy

Indy welcomes 26 million visitors each year. Cha-ching.
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Travels with Charci

Although she is one of 238,000 truckers living in Indiana, a state with more drivers than almost any other, Charci is easy to pick out at a crowded truck stop. Only 5 percent of drivers are women.

IU Football’s Magical (So Far) Season; Indy’s Most Stylish Sportswear Startup

We're joined this week by sportswriter Dustin Dopirak and Homefield Apparel founders Connor and Christa Hitchcock.
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Going Public: Indy's Vibrant Startup Culture

The sale of ExactTarget to the San Francisco software firm Salesforce.com created more than a dozen new millionaires here—executives who are already pouring that money into local tech businesses.

Handicapping Amazon's HQ2 Sweepstakes

Alexa, does Indy have a shot? Alexa?