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.
The Indiana Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee plans to vote Tuesday on bills to cap property taxes and delay unemployment
insurance tax increases.
If Congress passes health care reform, more people will become like Juli Erhart-Graves, whose family spends nearly 18 percent
of its income on health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs.
