INDIANAPOLIS - Executives from the company that owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade met Friday with Indianapolis' mayor as the city tries to lure the iconic firm away from Illinois. A spokesman said Mayor Greg Ballard left a meeting in Wisconsin early to meet with CME Group Inc. executives just days after a package of tax breaks intended to keep the exchanges in place failed to clear the Illinois General Assembly.
City officials hope that, after the six months, the ex-offenders transition into regular paying jobs, or at least receive recommendations from the employer that paves the way for them to find other work. [...] if we don't work on the re-entry problem, it's going to impact the community, and in turn impact business. Reducing recidivism, by the numbers Mayor Greg Ballard wants to hire a private company that can help place former felons in steady jobs and supervise their reintegration into the community. 5,000: previously incarcerated people who annually return to Marion County correctional facilities 70: ex-offenders initially involved in Ballard's two-year job placement pilot project $995,000: amount of the federal grant underwriting the hire of a private company to manage the pilot an...
If I'm interested in figuring out my foreign policy, I associate myself with my running mate, Joe Biden, or with Dick Lugar, the Republican ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or Gen. Jim Jones, the former supreme allied commander of NATO," Obama said Oct. 15 at Hofstra University. Before joining Republican Mayor Greg Ballard's administration as a deputy mayor, Nick Weber worked for Lugar from 2001 to 2007 as a special assistant and press secretary.
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Robert Vane, Deputy Chief of Staff of Office of Mayor Greg Ballard, +1-317-496-5515, rvane@indy.gov
When Greg Ballard, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, became mayor of Indianapolis in 2008, few people had any idea who he was, nor did they care. They were just glad to get rid of the "bum" in office, a man who had been honest in telling them he needed to raise their taxes to pay for police, prosecutors and jails. Unfortunately for the city, Ballard has since given his deep- pocketed supporters free reign of City Hall, jets around the globe on taxpayer-funded junkets and broken his no-new-taxes pledge.
On Oct. 20th, Mayor Greg Ballard, a Republican, released a "request for information" from businesses interested in operating Lucas Oil Stadium, the Indiana Convention Center and, perhaps, Conseco Fieldhouse, which currently is managed by Pacers Sports and Entertainment. [...] it appears the Pacers and ICVA are attempting to front-load the bidding process with a team so dominant others simply can't compete. Because you've got to get through that bumpy road.
Greg Wahl-Stephens for The Columbian From left, Darrell Rooks, William Ballard, Christina Traxler and Augusta Wiggins discuss business of their drug court alumni group. Many alumni, such as Traxler and Rooks, have become mentors to current therapeutic court participants.
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