Metro-area home sales dip 9% in July
Home sales in the Indianapolis area fell again in July. Pending sales in the nine-county metro area slipped 9 percent compared to the same month a year ago, F.C. Tucker Co. officials said today. Hancock County saw the biggest sales drop, with its sales down 30 percent in July. So far this year, sales in the metro area are down 13 percent from last year.
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Daniels’ plan aims to make college education more accessible, affordable
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to make a college education more accessible and affordable for Hoosier high-school graduates, particularly those from middle-income families. He will ask the next Indiana General Assembly to approve the Hoosier College Promise, which would be available to high-school graduates whose families earn about $60,000 or less annually. Those students would receive two years of free tuition at Ivy Tech Community College or an equivalent amount of $6,000 in need-based aid to use for their first two years at other colleges or universities in Indiana.
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Ethanol plant considered for Warren Co.
A South Dakota-based company that operates ethanol plants in seven states is in negotiations to build its largest facility so far in Warren County. The Warren County Board of Zoning Appeals voted Tuesday to grant a special exception to landowners north of West Lebanon that would help clear the way for a proposed $260 million ethanol plant to be constructed by POET LLC. The 115 million-gallon per year facility “would be our largest so far,” said POET director of site development Bob Berens. In comparison, VeraSun’s facility in Linden, about 15 miles south of Lafayette, produces 100 million gallons per year. West Lebanon is about 35 miles west of Lafayette.
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Sam Turpin
