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The Pence administration's decision to spend $120 million on a new psychiatric hospital represents a stark shift from the state's approach to mental health of the past 30 years.

The gift is part of a new, 10-year lease agreement the city is close to signing with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, which calls for IRT to provide building upkeep by paying into a fund in lieu of rent.

Cornelius "Lee" Alig has agreed to plead guilty to two of 20 felony counts and pay restitution of $321,000.

David B. Millard, a longtime attorney known for his passionate support of entrepreneurs, died Dec. 3. Millard, 60, led the corporate law division at Barnes & Thornburg LLP—the city’s largest law practice—before retiring last year.

Mr. Williams made kitchenware stylish and helped transform kitchens into gleaming, efficient refectories, making it possible for ordinary cooks to get serious.

Some suburbs in Indiana are waking up to the fact at their pattern of development is unsustainable in the most important way – financially.

An article in the Indianapolis Business Journal describes the scene in booming, upscale Hamilton County:

Hamilton County officials are closely watching new-housing prices, knowing that local governments’ long-term financial security could depend on it.

If a residential development doesn’t promise homes with a high enough price tag, a municipality could end up losing money. That’s because, under the state’s property tax caps, lower assessed values might not generate enough tax to cover the cost of city services.

No one seems to know exactly what that break-even price is—estimates range from $250,000 to $450,000—but most developers and government officials agree anything below $200,000 is no longer worth approving.

This is presented as an artifact of tax caps, but those caps are simply doing the service of revealing early, while there is still time to do something about it, that the financial model of too much of suburbia is not sustainable on a long term basis.

Indiana caps property taxes at 1% of a home’s value. That’s all the property tax money local government has to work with to provide all the services on which that property depends.

Houses that are too cheap – and too cheap could mean as expensive as $450,000 – will not produce enough property taxes to sustain municipal services.

This means housing for working class people isn’t going to get approved. This requires no recourse to racism, elitism, etc. to explain. Lower cost housing simply has a negative ROI for these communities.

Maybe they can get away with building some lower cost housing that requires subsidies to support, but too much of this and a town will quickly be in real trouble.

The problem is worse than these leaders know. They are in a favored quarter region that is still rapidly expanding in population, and every town here has physical room for more development.

Cities that are newer or still in their growth phase experience artificially low costs because of the power of greenfield economics. Their building stock is new, liabilities are low, the population is well off, and by simple economies of scale alone they are becoming more cost efficient as they grow.

But when they reach maturity and stop growing, costs escalate rapidly. This is why so many older suburbs around the country (paging Ferguson, MO) are in such bad shape, financially and otherwise.

One way to solve the problem is to only build houses expensive enough to make the math work. That’s what Hamilton County seems to be doing. They are also smartly realizing that developers used to be able to offload infrastructure costs onto the municipality, and they are now making sure everything is paid for by the developer up front.

But even a place without tax caps would end up like too many East Coast cities. They might in theory have a housing stock that would sustainably support a wider range of incomes. But in these towns sky high property taxes keep the working class out.  This type of development, once the lifecycle phase of cheap costs is over, will send taxes through the roof, which we see in many places.

These towns are ahead of the game in terms of coming to grips with the problem. Too many are not, however. They are simply approving developments pell-mell that are going to leave them saddled with massive future costs and a resident base that cannot afford to pay them.

Society of Salvage, a 2-year-old shop on downtown’s east side owned by Sandra Jarvis, has carved out an unusual niche in the salvage industry by unearthing industrial equipment and medical oddities from old buildings and factories.

Gary Thrapp will wind down operations at his north-side store at 56th and Illinois streets with a going-out-of-business sale starting Thursday.

Assistant Attorney General William Baer said that consumer choice is a bigger priority than health companies’ desire to add market share and gain leverage over providers like hospitals.

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What is the Midwest? There’s been a lot of debate about this question among folks passionate about such thing. But it defies easy definition. Here are eleven ways various people have taken a crack at drawing the map.

Traditional Maps

1. The Northwest Territory

Start with the original Northwest Territory, now sometimes referred to as the Great Lakes region. This is the historic core of what we now think of as the Midwest.

2. Midwest Census Division

The Census Bureau has an official definition of the Midwest, which is one of four so-called “Census Divisions.” This is further divided into two “Census Regions” as in the map below.

Ethnic and Cultural Definitions

Others have attempted to draw maps based on shared ethnicity and culture. These tend to deny the existence of an actual Midwest as we think about it today.

3. Nine Nations of North America

One of the most famous of these is from Joel Garreau, who made a claim that there were actually nine nations on the North American continent.

4. Eleven Nations of North America

Colin Woodard took this a step further and argued that there were really eleven nations in North America, which he identifies based on settlement patterns. You can see his writeup on this in an article in Tufts Alumni magazine.

Economic Definitions

Other maps try to define a region based on shared economic characteristics such as industries.

5. The Rust Belt
Here’s a map of the Rust Belt that’s floating around the I found on a website about coal communities of all places. I’m not sure exactly where it originated.

Hybrid Definitions

These maps attempt to use both shared cultural/historical and economic characteristics to define a Midwest region.

6. Richard Longworth’s Midwest

In his very important book Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism, Richard Longworth created his own bespoke definition of the Midwest. He notably excludes the southern regions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio as extensions of the south (similar to the 9 & 11 nations map), and also the pure play Great Plains states along the western edge of the Census definition.

7. Pete Saunder’s Five Midwests

Pete combines the nations approach with the traditional Census definition of the Midwest in order to divide the Midwest into five sub-regions.

8. Kotkin’s American Regions and City-States

Joel Kotkin took a similar approach to dividing America up in Forbes magazine. His view also appears to be a hybrid of culture, economics, and history. He turns America into seven regions and three city-states (New York, LA, and Miami). The full map is too huge to blog, but an excerpt is below which you can click on to see the whole thing in a new window.

Crowdsourced Maps

A couple of other people used crowdsourcing, in whole or in part, to define the Midwest

9. Walter Hickey/538 Map

Walter Hickey, writing at 538, conducted a survey with Survey Monkey to ask people which states they thought were in the Midwest. Here’s what he came up with.

10. miguecolombia’s Reddit Map

Here’s one that I found on a Reddit thread started by user miguecolombia. It appears to be his personal take on how to divide America, with a strong dose of crowdsourcing from Reddit.

Self-Defining Maps

And a couple maps that try to use statistical techniques to let the Midwest map itself.

11. Facebook Network Maps

Pete Warden took a look at Facebook profiles and connections to create clusters of regions. Most of what we’d think of as the Midwest he called Stayathomia, which also covers much of New England.

12. Chicago Migration Map

Lastly, a special surprise – a map you’ve never seen before. This was created by someone named Daniel Jarratt, who emailed it to me back in 2012. Using Chicago as the capital of the Midwest, he used IRS migration data and a statistic technique called modularity to divide the US into regions based on affinity with Chicago. Darker red means more connection to Chicago and thus in a sense more Midwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Troy Williams stood next to Yogi Ferrell and Nick Zeisloft on Saturday night as they argued over who is the team’s best shooter after a three-way tie in the men’s 3-point shootout, the Hoosiers junior had one comment. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined,” he said with a laugh. But after women’s basketball […]

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The real power in Danny Meyer’s new policy is its potential to force a broader debate on tipped work.

Herron High School hopes to raise enough money to turn an abandoned armory in Indianapolis into a new high school, according to Indiana Landmarks, which is trying to save the property.

Building or investing in sports facilities in order to boost finances at a university is nearly always a losing play, according to financial experts.

The offshoot of Indy-based Central State Brewing hopes to begin serving its beer, plus wine and coffee, within the next few months in space adjacent to Goose the Market.

While lots of people come to gawk at the insanely gorgeous cars on the lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance every August, there are also plenty of men with very deep pockets who come to do some serious shopping. There are a few blue-chip auctions during Monterey Car Week, of which the headliner is the three-day event produced by RM Sotheby’s. This year they’re also staging an auction-within-an-auction, with one of the world’s best car collections, called the Pinnacle Portfolio, going up for sale. RM is billing it as “the most significant and valuable private automobile collection ever presented at a single-day auction,” including everything from early model Ferrari race cars to the final production Enzo, gifted to the late Pope John Paul II.

In addition to the 25 Pinnacle cars, which include both classic and modern machines, are some of the most expensive and desirable cars in the world are set to cross the auction block. Top of the class is a 1953 Jaguar C-Type Works race car (top photo), which finished fourth overall at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1953, and is the second of only three “Works Lightweight” cars ever built by Jaguar in thin-gauge aluminum. It’s expected to bring in $9 million or more, making it one of the world’s most expensive Jaguars. It’s easily the most beautiful car in the sale in our opinion, though the competition is fierce – the 1950 Ferrari 275S/340 America Barchetta by Scaglietti (below) isn’t exactly an eyesore either. It could fetch $8 million-plus, in case you were wondering.

One of the most important competition Ferraris ever to be offered at auction, it started out as one of only two 275S Barchettas built, and was campaigned for the factory by legendary Italian racing driver Alberto Ascari in the 1950 Mille Miglia. There are dozens of Ferraris in the sale spanning several decades of production. Next to the 275S/340 America we’d place the bright yellow 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione from the Pinnacle stable. Prepared as a North American Race Team (N.A.R.T.) car, it competed in the ninth annual 12 Hours of Sebring in Florida just a few days after leaving the factory. RM calls it “the finest performing and best looking SWB in the world” – and this one could go as high as $17 million. It’s hard to choose favorites from the full roster of RM’s Monterey monsters, but we’ve waded in and done it for you, so scroll down for the rest.

 

This morning at Valentino had to be one of the best runway moments of all time.

 

What a great way to bring Paris fashion week to a close!

 

If you haven’t seen the actual video scroll down and watch the live streaming we posted on the site earlier this morning. It still makes me laugh to watch the surprise at the end!!

Columbia, Md.–based manufacturer SolarWindow Technologies recently unveiled their innovative solar technology that could turn every skyscraper into a solar collector.

Is it too late for a Father’s Day post? Each year, Free & Easy dedicates an issue to what they call “Dad’s Style,” which is their way of referring to classic or traditional men’s clothing. Of course, when Free & Easy talks about classics, they mostly mean it in the hip sense. If your dad actually owns anything featured in this magazine, there’s a good chance you were conceived at Pitti Uomo. 

Still, previous issues have featured men such as Bruce Boyer and Christian Chensvold, both of whom have genuinely classic (and good) taste. I also like some of the things they photograph. There are the usual things that Japanese style editors fawn over, such as Brooks Brothers jackets and Alden shoes, to more unusual items, such as vintage bags and raincoats from Arnys and Invertere. I also really like those split-toes from JM Weston (misleadingly described below as “u-tips”). They look like Edward Green’s Dovers on steroids, and possibly just the thing to wear with heavy cavalry twill trousers.

Granted, even among the genuinely classic pieces, I don’t know how much of this really reflects “dad style.” But if the last few weeks of menswear sales are any indication, Father’s Day isn’t really aimed at fathers anyway.  

Three years ago, when I visited Antonio Panico’s workshop in Naples, he showed me three safari jackets. One was constructed from linen, another from cotton, and a third, surprisingly, from a hefty cashmere. Together, they represented how you could wear the style three seasons out of the year. The jackets themselves were a bit too big for my skinny frame, but when Panico put them on me and belted them up, I can’t say I’ve ever felt cooler. 

Since then, I’ve been wanting a safari jacket I can wear in the fall, just to go with the cotton and linen ones I sometimes use in the summer. The key to making these look good, I think, is to have the garment styled more like a jacket than a shirt (which shirt jackets like these can lean either way). That means a slightly slouchier fit, rather than something overly tailored, and details such as bigger buttons at the front, bellow pockets on the hips, and – possibly – even a separate side body panel, so that the jacket has a bit more shaping. 

Heavy cashmere is too rich for my blood, but I’ve been thinking about getting one made from tweed or moleskin. The nice thing about shirt jackets is that, since there’s no interior construction, bespoke pieces are much more affordable than other kinds of tailored clothing (think, something around $750, which isn’t inexpensive, but a far cry from the ~$2,500 tailors charge for bespoke sport coats). You do need a custom shirtmaker who already has your pattern, however. If he or she has to create one from scratch, expect to pay a few hundred dollars more. 

For ready-to-wear, check Holland & Holland, Westley Richards, and Ralph Lauren, or browse eBay for much more affordable vintage pieces from brands such as Willis & Geiger, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Banana Republic (when BR was a safari-themed outfitter, rather than an everyday mall brand). No Man Walks Alone will also be carrying some wool field jackets from Eidos this season – one made from a 21oz gray herringbone tweed; the other from a lighter weight, 12oz burgundy wool-blend hopsack. The Armoury also used to carry safari jackets from my shirtmaker Ascot Chang, although they’re currently sold out (I’m told they may return next summer). Lastly, check Anderson & Sheppard’s Clifford Street shop. Their ready-to-wear jackets are cleverly made with interior zip pockets, earphone loops, and detachable key rings, making them perfect for travel. 

(Photos via The Armoury, The House of Majd, B&Tailor, A Suitable Wardrobe, Suits of James Bond, Anderson & Sheppard, The Rugged Museum, No Man Walks Alone, Where is the Cool, Kotmj, The William Brown Project, and Westley Richards & Co.)

Blending the influences of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier and Partners Architects could be considered the ultimate conduit of 20th-century modernism in contemporary practice. The American firm’s distinctive aesthetic is immediately recognizable and stands as a present-day ode to those modern masters in contrast with a plethora of styles constructed in the meantime. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, where Meier’s latest building is rising in the city’s eastern district. Commissioned by Continental Development Corporation, the Xin-Yi Residential Tower — otherwise known as “Timeless 55” — is being constructed just a block away from CY Lee’s soaring, postmodern skyscraper, the super-tall Taipei 101. The juxtaposition of these two buildings marries two divergent paths of thought in contemporary architectural theory, setting up a playful “battle of styles” in one of Asia’s most modern metropolises. C.Y. Lee’s 1,671-foot-tall tower — the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010 — is rich with symbolism, evoking the traditional forms of an Asian pagoda, a stalk of bamboo, and a stack of Chinese money boxes. Meanwhile, Meier’s residential skyscraper is entirely unconcerned with metaphor, driven instead ...

Reds hailing from the southern Rhône region go well with the onset of chilly weather.

These wines possess a chameleon characteristic that yields a deeper experience the more you bask in their glow.

The Indianapolis-based law firm launched the office in the Big Apple with hopes of expanding the reach of its private equity practice.

Station Place on South Meridian Street is listed for $10.5 million, and the Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. is accepting bids for its building on the Central Canal.

These bottles convey the elemental aromas, flavors and emotions of appellations like Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage and Cornas, but in a more open, easier-going manner.