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Overhaul of sentencing laws heading to governor
April 26, 2013
Associated PressThe Senate voted 34-15 on Friday in favor of the bill aimed at sending fewer nonviolent offenders to prison.
MoreLawmakers forge deal to help Indianapolis Motor Speedway
April 26, 2013
The Statehouse FileThe plan authorizes the state to loan the Speedway $100 million—money it will borrow through bonds—to make the grandstands
more accessible to people with disabilities and to install lights for night races.
MoreBill would delay new Indiana school standards
April 25, 2013
Associated PressIndiana legislators prepared a compromise bill Thursday that would suspend implementation of a national set of reading and
math education standards for a year while new state reviews are done.
MoreBudget includes tax cut, more school, road funds
April 25, 2013
Associated PressIndiana taxpayers will see their personal income tax rate reduced by 5 percent over the next four years under a budget plan
agreed to Thursday by lawmakers. The plan also repeals the inheritance tax retroactive to Jan. 1.
MoreLow-level felons could get less prison time under plan
April 25, 2013
Associated PressIndiana lawmakers have reached a compromise that would direct more non-violent, low-level felons to work release and other
local programs rather than sending them to prison.
MoreSenate cans hunting plan
April 25, 2013
Associated PressA proposal aimed at legalizing five fenced deer-hunting preserves around Indiana has failed in this year's legislative session.
MoreSize of Indiana income tax cut remains undecided
April 24, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's new state budget will include at least a small personal income tax cut, although legislative leaders said Wednesday
they weren't certain whether it will be as large as Republican Gov. Mike Pence wants.
MoreGOP concerns derailed Turner's chance at powerful post
April 24, 2013
Associated PressRepublican lawmakers bypassed House Speaker Pro Tem Eric Turner for the chairmanship of House Ways and Means committee last
year amid concerns over his potential conflicts of interest, sources say.
MoreMass Ave business owners split over proposed district tax
April 24, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinOpponents of a proposed tax to pay for improvements throughout the cultural district have accused tax advocates of rigging
the proposal to ensure its passage.
MoreMore Hoosiers favor legal pot than Pence's tax cut, poll says
April 24, 2013
Jeff NewmanA new poll of 600 voters by Howey Politics Indiana shows 39-percent approval for Gov. Mike Pence's proposed 10-percent tax
cut. But 56 percent said they favor decriminalization of marijuana.
MoreIndiana lawmakers drawing close on remaining measures
April 23, 2013
Associated PressThe leaders of the Indiana General Assembly said Tuesday they will continue meeting daily with Gov. Mike Pence to hammer out
a broad range of issues before the 2013 session ends.
MoreLegislature taking tight-fisted stance with casinos
April 23, 2013
Associated PressThe casino bill approved by the House last week would grant less than a fifth of the tax breaks first proposed in the Senate.
It also doesn't permit live table games at the racinos in Anderson and Shelbyville.
MoreBill OK'd that grants Indiana tuition to some immigrants
April 23, 2013
Associated PressSupporters say the change would help a couple of hundred students who had the rules changed on them after they had already
started work on their college degrees.
MoreIndiana lawmakers approve looser superintendent rules
April 22, 2013
Associated PressSchool district superintendents would no longer have to hold an Indiana superintendent's or teacher's license under
a proposal that won final legislative approval on Monday.
MoreSenate bill jeopardizes tax-free online shopping
April 22, 2013
Associated PressStates could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the U.S.
Senate on Monday.
MoreRevoked charters could be forgiven $12M in loans
April 22, 2013
Associated PressSeven schools whose charters were revoked by Ball State University in January would be absolved of payments along with another
school which did not seek to renew its charter.
MoreRepublicans to question Ballard's $6M sports park
April 22, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe City-County Council's GOP caucus will grill the mayor's staff in a private meeting Monday evening about plans for the
park, which caught many of them by surprise last week.
MoreLawmakers seek to piggyback priorities onto other bills
April 21, 2013
Associated PressAs the Indiana General Assembly nears the finish of its 2013 session, legislators hope to find homes for initiatives that
struggled to win approval on their own, such as backing improvements to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and expanding the
state's school voucher program.
MoreAdvocates for mass transit may need to ante up
April 20, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indianapolis area’s largest employers have spent millions of dollars studying and promoting regional mass transit,
but if the idea is going to get past the Legislature, they might have to put money into the $1.3 billion system as well.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Upbeat forecast paves way for final deals
April 20, 2013
Ed FeigenbaumProdding by legislative leaders and an epidemic of Hoosier common have led to compromises on contentious issues.
MoreMayor Ballard joins infrastructure task force
April 20, 2013
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is among 17 mayors of large U.S. cities that joined a new infrastructure task force convened
by the Clinton Global Initiative.
MoreBig names lining up to tackle Market Square site
April 20, 2013
Scott OlsonCity officials will have at least four proposals to consider for redevelopment of a downtown parking lot where Market Square
Arena once stood. Bids are due to the city by April 22.
MoreLawmakers draw close on limited voucher-expansion plan
April 18, 2013
Associated PressLegislators are hammering out a modest expansion of the state's school voucher program following a meeting of House and Senate
lawmakers.
MoreBosma weighs changes to disclosure rules for legislators
April 18, 2013
Associated PressThe Indiana House Speaker said he's considering changes to rules governing what lawmakers must disclose about their personal
and financial ties, after learning about a powerful state rep's work helping a client of his lobbyist daughter.
MoreOnline sales-tax proposal hits Senate roadblock
April 18, 2013
Associated PressRepublican state senators have blocked a vote on a bill that would force Amazon.com and some other online-only retailers to
start collecting Indiana's 7-percent sales tax this summer.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.