The Indiana Senate has approved legislation that would keep state government running if lawmakers don’t enact a new budget by the time the current spending plan expires at the end of the month. The bill approved today would allow the administration of Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to continue spending at current levels if the new […]
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings plans to acquire Midwest Airlines for $31 million, the local airline announced today. Republic will buy Milwaukee-based Midwest from TPG Capital, a Fort Worth, Texas-based private equity firm. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in four to six weeks. Republic will pay TPG $6 million […]
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings plans to acquire Midwest Airlines for $31 million, the local airline announced today. Republic will buy Milwaukee-based Midwest from TPG Capital, a Fort Worth, Texas-based private equity firm. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in four to six weeks. Republic will pay TPG $6 million […]
Republic Airways Holdings said today it will buy struggling Midwest Airlines for $31 million in cash and debt, the second time in two days it has sought to rescue an ailing airline. Yesterday, Republic said it would bid $108.8 million to take Frontier Airlines out of bankruptcy. Republic Chairman and CEO Bryan Bedford said he […]
Indiana House and Senate fiscal leaders are set to begin serious negotiations on a new state budget. Senate Republicans passed their version of a budget yesterday, setting the stage for House-Senate conference committee negotiations to begin during a public meeting scheduled for this morning. House Ways and Means Chairman William Crawford says he hopes the […]
Indiana House and Senate fiscal leaders are set to begin serious negotiations on a new state budget. Senate Republicans passed their version of a budget yesterday, setting the stage for House-Senate conference committee negotiations to begin during a public meeting today. House Ways and Means Chairman William Crawford says he hopes the committee will work […]
The first round of budget negotiations between Democratic and Republican lawmakers got off to a slow start yesterday with less than a week to go before Indiana’s current spending plan expires. Democrats who lead the House and Republicans who control the Senate touched on a few differences in their budget plans during a public conference […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels heads south today to take the state budget battle to the people. He’ll visit Lawrenceburg, Madison and New Albany to talk about the negotiations between lawmakers in the Indiana House and Senate. Daniels is urging Democrats to support the bill proposed by the Republican-controlled Senate. A meeting between the two sides Wednesday […]
By purchasing two struggling airlines for which it flies, Republic Airways Holdings is taking aboard substantial risks that
threaten its profitable niche, analysts say. Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines are not only leaking money, but fly at
an altitude where major carriers routinely dogfight
in a fare war Republic hasn’t had to fight as a contract carrier.
The sniping over the state budget follows the time-honored script of partisan politics. Fear not: A timely climax and resolution
are all but guaranteed.
Indiana legislative leaders are back at the Statehouse today as they seek a budget agreement before the current budget expires at the end of tomorrow. House Speaker Patrick Bauer says he and fellow Democrats may be willing to accept a two-year budget instead of the one-year spending plan they previously proposed. But Bauer said today […]
Indiana is running so short on prison space that it has just 26 beds available for its worst offenders. Inmates are already sleeping in beds stacked three high in one prison, and officials are considering renovating common areas like gymnasiums into cells. Department of Correction leaders thought their prison crowding problem would be alleviated – […]
Leaders of the Democrat-controlled House and Republican-ruled Senate said last night that they were very close to agreeing on a new two-year state budget, and votes on the plan were expected today. Lawmakers must pass a new budget or a stopgap funding measure by midnight, when the current spending plan expires, or Republican Gov. Mitch […]
The Indiana General Assembly passed a two-year state budget today, narrowly averting a large-scale state government shutdown that would have begun just after midnight. The Democrat-led House voted 62-37 for the $28.7 billion budget late this afternoon, and the Republican-ruled Senate passed it 34-16 about two hours later. The bill was quickly signed into law […]
A look at some features of a budget bill passed by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels tonight: – Spends about $27.8 billion over the two-year budget cycle. – Public schools will see an average state funding increase of about 1 percent in the first year and 0.3 percent […]
Now that another General Assembly is mercifully behind us, itâ??s a good time to raise a festering question
about the lopsided nature of ideas bantered about the Statehouse in recent years.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has driven a wide-ranging agenda characterized by…
Technology interests got half of what they wanted in a state budget passed yesterday by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels. The 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, the state’s showcase program for investing in fledgling high-tech firms, said it would receive $35 million in the two-year budget, short […]
Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer don’t agree on much, but both said yesterday they were tired of trying to find ways to help the cash-strapped agency that runs Indianapolis’ sports stadiums and convention center. Daniels said he doesn’t want to see any more legislation to help the Capital Improvement Board […]
If we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives. In some states, changes in the level of the budget are driven by the percent change in […]
As both House Speaker Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, and House Republican Leader Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, see it, this is definitely a "Republican-flavored" budget. Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels laid the framework, and legislators from both sides of the aisle largely abided by his bottom lines of spending, state agency cuts and surplus.
