The historical society owns the downtown Indianapolis building where its headquarters, museum and archives are housed. However, the state owns the land.
With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts.
Councilors authorized an external investigation in August after three women came forward with harassment allegations against the mayor’s former chief of staff.
During the first meeting of his second-term Cabinet, President Trump suggested that the new revenue generated from the program could be used to help pay off the country’s debt.
Last year, the Indiana House passed a resolution but it didn’t get a Senate hearing. This year, the Senate has jumped into the fray, passing a resolution despite bipartisan opposition.
Trump indicated Wednesday that European countries would also face a 25% tariff as part of his reciprocal tariffs. He also wants separate tariffs on autos, computer chips and pharmaceutical drugs that would be levied in addition to the reciprocal tariffs.
Indianapolis-based TechPoint, which supports the state’s tech sector, honored Republic Airways, Accutech and 18 other winners at its annual Mira Awards gala Thursday night.
A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance.” The activist movement also plans to promote weeklong consumer boycotts of companies including Walmart and Amazon.
The state of Indiana receives more than $20 billion from the federal government annually, or 44% of its budget, and is the third-most reliant state on federal dollars.
As Indiana’s Legislature continues to debate statewide property tax reform, new data show that homeowners have taken on an unfair share of property taxes.
Senate Bill 307 would allow the Indiana Brownfields Program to be used to study brownfields and to create a statewide inventory, although the bill provides no funding for the task.
Both major Marion County political parties gathered over the weekend to select leaders, with the incumbent being selected to remain as party chair for the Democrats and a former congressional staffer chosen as new leader for the Republicans.
The usually insular selection has attracted a fair number of high-profile names, including candidates who lost in the 2024 election cycle and long-time party leaders, bringing additional attention and scrutiny to the routine process.
Health policy nonprofit KFF estimates Indiana could miss out on billions of dollars in funding if the federal government enacts a per-capita cap to reduce spending on Medicaid.
Despite language in the state budget that appears to terminate the state’s contract with the nonprofit, Gov. Mike Braun’s office now maintains the intention is not to force IHS to give up its building.
