Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early
Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas.
Daily newspapers on Thursday filed a motion seeking to unseal search warrant documents related to the federal investigation
of Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Lawyer Kurt Webber is set to announce Thursday that he’ll run as a Republican to represent District 86 in the Indiana House.
The district, which includes parts of Marion and Hamilton counties, is held by Democrat Ed DeLaney.
Marion County Commissioners reappointed Doug Brown on Thursday morning to the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, leaving
only one seat open on the nine-member panel whose financial troubles this year have elevated its profile.
Indiana lawmakers are preparing to punt on 2009’s must-solve business issue in the hope of a federal bailout. However, it’s
anybody’s
guess how Washington will respond.
A state House of Representatives committee on Wednesday will take up an ethics reform package by Democratic House Speaker
Patrick Bauer that could change the rulebook for lobbyists. A provision would force lawmakers to wait one year after leaving
office to begin work as a paid lobbyist. State Republicans are preparing similar legislation.
The U.S. Senate voted down a plan Tuesday to allow Americans to import prescriptions from abroad, handing drug makers
such as Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. a victory.
As the horse-trading focuses on a Medicare expansion and public option—both of which appear to be on the way out—a
rhetorical battle is raging on whether ObamaCare health care reform will help or hike costs.
A group of mayors led by Tom Henry of Fort Wayne and Greg Ballard of Indianapolis is seeking new sources of revenue to replace
the millions they’ll lose because of property tax caps.
A federal financial-disclosure statement Brizzi submitted in May lists the politician as an investor in Red Rock Pictures
Holdings Inc., a film-development firm also backed by Durham.
Bills aimed at adding caps on property tax bills to the state constitution and delaying increases on unemployment insurance
taxes are now before the full Republican-controlled Senate, weeks before the entire Legislature convenes on Jan. 5.
