IMPD faces tough competition for police recruits
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration has boosted starting pay for new officers, offered signing bonuses and launched a marketing campaign to attract recruits from other Midwestern cities.
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration has boosted starting pay for new officers, offered signing bonuses and launched a marketing campaign to attract recruits from other Midwestern cities.
Legislation related to Kratom, picketing, birth control and speed limits appear to be among the casualties of this session, although some of the language could be revived in so-called “zombie bills.”
IRS and Treasury Department officials said Thursday that they will use part of the $80 billion in new funding for the tax service to claw back unpaid balances from high-income earners and complex businesses.
State Rep. Robin Shackleford, a Democratic candidate hoping to unseat incumbent Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett in the party primary May 2, unveiled a public safety plan with more than 30 priorities Wednesday afternoon.
The latest push includes a statewide poll and multiple local advocacy events intended to sway the state’s budget writers.
The president’s budget calls for more than $2 trillion on dozens of new domestic policy initiatives, paid for by more than $4.5 trillion in new revenue, primarily through hefty tax hikes on high earners and large corporations.
A new funding stream carved into the House Republican budget would mandate the amount of funds every public school district and charter school receives for operations, which are collected through local property taxes.
The initiative intended to promote domestic manufacturing and fuel a blue-collar renaissance is running into a problem: The United States no longer produces many of the items needed to modernize roads, bridges and ports.
House Republicans have passed a bill that would rescind nearly $71 billion that Congress had provided the IRS.
Already, Jane Burgess, a former member of the Zionsville School Board, and John Stehr, a former news anchor at WTHR-TV Channel 13, have announced they will seek the GOP nomination.
State governments emerging from the coronavirus pandemic built historic cash surpluses as inflation in prices and wages drove up sales and income tax collections.
More than four dozen current and incoming lawmakers received millions of dollars of campaign contributions from Samuel Bankman-Fried—a group that included members of both political parties and chambers of Congress, but predominantly House Democrats.
Crouch will be seeking the Republican nomination to succeed Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, who is barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term.
The coming shift in power—which in January will end two years of unified Democratic control in Washington—is sure to complicate the second half of President Joe Biden’s term.
The percentage of women in the Indiana General Assembly, 26.7%, is comparable to the nationwide rate in Congress, which hit its own record last year.
Air Force veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green is seeking an upset in an Indiana U.S. House district that has been Democratically controlled for nearly a century.
The two candidates who participated in an Indiana Secretary of State debate Monday night—Democrat Destiny Wells and Libertarian Jeff Maurer—differed sharply on election security, with divergent viewpoints that led to disparate signature policy stances.
Worn down by a never-ending pandemic, some have stopped paying attention to health officials’ recommendations altogether, despite projections of a fall and winter COVID wave with the potential to sicken millions and kill tens of thousands, particularly the elderly and sick.
Indiana Republican secretary of state candidate Diego Morales strongly denies the allegations of sexual misconduct, but they could have political ramifications in next month’s election.
The paucity of candidates comes right as the district embarks on its Rebuilding Stronger plan, a major overhaul to address declining enrollment and an impending fiscal cliff.