Safety Management Group has received official notification that the contract associated with the delivery of an Owner Controlled Insurance Program (OCIP) for $754 million Wishard Hospital Campus Project in Indianapolis, IN has been approved.
Randy Gieseking, Vice President of Safety Services at Safety Management Group, received the award notice from Pillar Group Risk Management on December [...]

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Horizon Bancorp is buying Whiting-based American Trust & Savings Bank.
The Cline Ave. bridge is coming down no matter what.
St Joseph County will spend $7.5 million to upgrade its emergency communications equipment.
State cuts in education funding will be spread about evenly across all school districts, according to Gov. Mitch Daniels.
La Porte County has received $8.5 million [...]

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Nationally, new jobless claims fell for the 16th straight week.
Health care reform could cost Hoosiers $2.3 billion over the next decade.
Valparaiso’s ChicaGo Dash bus service is adding a stop where Indiana 49 meets the toll road.
AM General is laying off 250 workers at its Mishawaka Humvee plant due to declining military orders for the vehicle.

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ArcelorMittal has received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Diesel Emission Reduction Act/Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative grant in the amount of $164,032 to repower three diesel engines on front-end loaders at the Indiana Harbor facility.
The Northwest Indiana Forum (Forum) facilitated the grant and ArcelorMittal matched the grant monies to cover the total project cost.

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With heavy rains expected over the holidays, a flood watch is in effect for Northwest Indiana.
Next spring’s $720,000 sewer replacement project is Chesterton will create lots of traffic and parking headaches.
The City of La Porte may sue the county if it doesn’t quickly resolve an ongoing reassessment issue.
The La Porte County Convention & Visitors Bureau [...]

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Ice Miller LLP is pleased to announce that five attorneys have been named new partners of the Firm effective January 1, 2010. The attorneys are: Katrina Clingerman, Amy Fisher, Alex Forman, Kim Metzger and Andrew Vento.

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Scott D. Ochander, an experienced marketing and communications strategist with a strong history of successful marketing and brand leadership has been appointed to join Valparaiso University’s senior leadership team as vice president of integrated marketing and communications in January.
Ochander will serve as the University’s chief marketing and communications officer and have overall responsibility for the [...]

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The Michigan State Attorney General has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force the closure of shipping locks near Chicago to prevent the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.
The latest unemployment figures around Northwest Indiana can be found here.
More engineering analysis will be needed before a final decision is made about the South [...]

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Plans for a Northwest Indiana Steel Museum are slowly creeping forward.
Some European clean energy companies are taking an interest in east-central Indiana.
Chesterton officials need more time to study a recently completed draft of their new comprehensive plan.

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Lake County’s NorthWind Crossings Business Park is the latest site to be certified for speedier development and earn the status as “shovel ready” from the state of Indiana.
NorthWind Crossings, which completed environmental review with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management last week, joins seven new sites located in Blackford, Daviess, Madison, Monroe, Orange, Vigo and [...]

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