(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber’s 2017 Legislative Directory allows Hoosiers interested in legislative affairs to stay connected with their state legislators during the upcoming General Assembly session. The publication is available as an app, for Android and iPhone users, and the traditional booklet format. The Legislative Directory includes bios, contact information, committee assignments and social media profiles for House [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — An old proverb, first printed in 1639, says: “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” In today’s state and national economies, the assertion is that the healthier the residents are, the wealthier and wiser they and the broader community will also be. The Ball State University Center for Business and [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Twenty-nine Hoosier business leaders have been named to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, effective immediately. Joining the more than 100 Indiana Chamber board members who are presidents, CEOs and high-level executives from organizations throughout the state, are: Scott Bruns, office managing partner, Ernst & Young LLP (Indianapolis); Phil Burkholder, president, Defense Aerospace North America, [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Long-term transportation infrastructure funding, expansion of state-funded preschool to children from low-income families and strategies to reduce the state’s smoking rate are among the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s top priorities for the 2017 General Assembly session. These objectives were announced at the organization’s annual legislative preview in Indianapolis today. The event sponsor was Ice Miller LLP. “Based [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce formally introduced its new chairman at an awards dinner tonight. Ron Christian, an executive at Evansville-based Vectren Corporation, has been tapped to lead the organization’s board of directors for 2017. Christian, executive vice president external affairs, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Vectren, has served on the Indiana Chamber’s board and [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce honored its volunteers of the year during a luncheon ceremony today at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. The 2016 Samuel C. Schlosser Volunteers of the Year are: Mark Richards (Ice Miller, Indianapolis); Stuart Buttrick (Faegre Baker Daniels, Indianapolis); and Todd Miller (Myers Spring Company, Logansport). “We are honoring three people [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — An agriculture titan, a small-business-owning state representative, the two minds behind a groundbreaking children’s tech toy and a bustling entrepreneurial city were awarded the highest honors tonight at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s 27th Annual Awards Dinner. The winners are: Business Leader of the Year: Sonny Beck, of Beck’s Hybrids in Atlanta Government Leader of the Year: [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indiana Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Kevin Brinegar comments on the election aftermath: “We probably have just witnessed the most bizarre and bruising election of our lifetimes. It’s critical to move on quickly from any bitterness of the campaigns or results and come together as a state and nation. “We need lawmakers to concentrate on the [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is backing Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-South Bend) in her re-election bid for the 2nd District. “Jackie Walorski has repeatedly stood up for small businesses and against harmful government regulations and intrusion,” says Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar. “She is a champion for job creation, economic growth and free enterprise – [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Hoosiers can get a sneak peek of the upcoming General Assembly session at the Indiana Chamber Legislative Preview on November 21. The annual event, sponsored by Ice Miller LLP, features caucus leaders in a question and answer session on how they see the upcoming session playing out. In addition, the Indiana Chamber will reveal its top pro-jobs, [...]