Legislation creating a “military police force” of Indiana National Guard members — to be deployed around the state at the governor’s behest — overwhelmingly passed the Senate on Tuesday despite bipartisan opposition. The Senate also approved more than three dozen other bills.
A narrowly divided vote to roll back portions of Indiana’s environmental code anchored a deadline-day push Tuesday as the Indiana House advanced a slate of bills and set up end-of-session negotiations across the rotunda.
Charter leaders and advocates are concerned about relinquishing power over buildings. IPS supporters, meanwhile, worry lawmakers are treating the district unfairly.
The bill, crafted after last year’s tragic midair collision near Washington, D.C., sought to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent such crashes.
Over the objections of two state senators from the area, the Senate narrowly passed legislation Tuesday that would open up the bidding for a $500 million casino in northeast Indiana.
Indiana legislators are looking to give themselves more say over big-ticket highway projects at a time when a proposal in Gov. Mike Braun’s hometown is facing significant local opposition.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority, said the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”
A provision added to the northwest Indiana stadium bill would require State Budget Committee review of any highway project with a price tag of at least $250 million.
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the United States have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45 billion expansion of detention centers.
The plan — which the president announced on social media — is higher than the 10% rate he imposed immediately after the high court struck down his earlier tariffs.
While major drugmakers tussle for market supremacy, they are also taking on compound pharmacies that have not stopped selling obesity drugs despite the end of the shortage of such drugs.
The decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
