January 24, 2013
Associated PressA top Indiana senator is calling for a review of Indiana's plans to subsidize a proposed coal-gasification plant.
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January 24, 2013
Associated PressAmazon.com and other online-only retailers would have to start collecting Indiana's 7-percent sales tax this summer under
a bill endorsed by a state House committee.
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January 24, 2013
Associated PressFormer Sen. Richard Lugar will join former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton as a professor in Indiana University's new School of
Global and International Studies.
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January 24, 2013
Associated PressThe U.S. Postal Service says it's hiring 400 new employees across Indiana, including in Indianapolis, but job-seekers
have to apply online by Sunday night.
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January 24, 2013
Associated PressAmerican Airlines has signed a 12-year agreement for Republic Airways Holdings Inc. to operate 76-seat regional jets. It also
agreed to purchase up to 94 new aircraft from Brazilian plane maker Embraer.
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January 23, 2013
Associated PressThe Pence budget calls for roughly $6.4 billion in education spending in each of the next two years, with another $64 million
for high-performing schools beginning the summer of 2014, at the start of the 2015 budget year.
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January 23, 2013
Associated PressThe Senate Public Policy Committee voted 9-0 in support of a bill that would overhaul the state's casino taxes, along
with allowing Indiana's 10 riverboat casinos to move inland to adjacent property and permit live table games at the two
horse track casinos.
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January 23, 2013
Associated PressUnion membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s. In Indiana, where a new right-to-work law took effect
last March, the state lost about 56,000 union members.
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January 23, 2013
Associated PressThe chairman of the Indiana Senate's Education Committee says he's working on a compromise to a bill that would pull
the state from the Common Core State Standards national education initiative.
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January 22, 2013
Associated PressBall State University has pulled its sponsorship of seven Indiana charter schools plagued by long-running academic woes, including
one in Indianapolis.
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January 22, 2013
Associated PressIndianapolis Power & Light said ratepayers could expect a 2-percent to 3-percent annual increase for a "number of years,"
but said he did not know how long the increases would be in effect.
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January 21, 2013
Associated PressFormer Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has started his tenure as president of Purdue University with a fact-finding tour that students
said impressed them with his willingness to engage them on changes he's considering for the university.
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January 21, 2013
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mike Pence might be shying from specifics ahead of his first State of the State address, but the details of a
first-year agenda that will focus on jobs training, expanded spending on private schools and an across-the-board tax cut are
largely known at this point.
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January 21, 2013
Associated PressLawmakers have introduced legislation to help Indiana's riverboat casinos hold onto business in the face of growing competition
from casinos in neighboring states.
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January 20, 2013
Associated PressIndiana Beach Amusement Resort on Lake Shafer neglected to pay an estimated $180,000 in innkeeper's taxes and about $167,000
in 2011 property taxes, according to White County officials.
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January 20, 2013
Associated PressThe proposals of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley epitomize the reality of the Red State and Blue
State philosophy of just what a 'jobs budget' looks like.
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January 18, 2013
Associated PressOne of Indiana's largest environmental groups said Friday it was concerned that this year's General Assembly may weaken
Hoosiers' ability to protect themselves from pollution and other health risks.
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January 18, 2013
Associated PressResearchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly and Co. for a large federally funded study testing whether it's
possible to prevent Alzheimer's disease in older people at high risk of developing it.
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January 18, 2013
Associated PressA group of Indiana political and business leaders are joining a national effort to pressure Washington, D.C., politicians
to find a long-term debt fix.
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January 18, 2013
Associated PressIt appears health advocates have little chance of seeing Indiana's smoking ban extended to include bars.
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January 17, 2013
Associated PressThe leader of the nation's largest health insurer warned Thursday not to assume widespread participation from his company
in part of health care overhaul's coverage expansion that unfolds later this year.
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January 17, 2013
Associated PressGov. Mike Pence and top Republican legislators plan to barrel ahead this year with the "freight train" of education
changes sought by Indiana's former governor, including proposals to expand school vouchers and use private money to send
children to preschool.
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January 17, 2013
Associated PressGov. Mike Pence on Thursday named Debra Minott, an attorney with health care regulatory experience, to run the Indiana's
human services agency while it implements the looming Medicaid expansion. Pence also named Gina Sheets to lead the Agriculture
Department.
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January 17, 2013
Associated PressU.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon in Hammond ruled that none of the union's arguments against the law could succeed
in federal court, although a challenge could still be made in state courts.
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January 17, 2013
Associated PressThe Arizona Cardinals have filled the NFL’s final head coaching vacancy by hiring Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator
Bruce Arians. The 60-year-old longtime assistant went 9-3 as Colts interim head coach while Chuck Pagano was undergoing treatment
for leukemia last season.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.