The benefits of a healthier Indiana would include longer average life expectancy, a larger tax-paying population, lower healthcare costs, and a more productive workforce.
IBJ reporter Susan Orr and Managing Editor Greg Weaver each won two awards at the Best of Indiana Journalism Awards, hosted by the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
The proposed version of the budget doesn’t include any expansion of school vouchers, which House Speaker Todd Huston has personally pushed for, nor does it finalize funding for mental health and public health commitments.
Lawmakers finished the week Thursday by finalizing a move to limit the right to bail, extend a gas tax increase and make several key changes to a public health bill.
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.”
Support is clear for the 988 hotline, which is designed to operate similar to 911 but for mental health rather than public safety. However, the most important detail–how much funding the state will provide–has yet to be determined.
The Indianapolis-based foundation said the study, announced Thursday, shows that if the state cigarette tax increased by $2 per pack, from the current 99 cents per pack, an estimated 45,000 Hoosier adults would stop smoking.
A new report concludes major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are—in effect misleading consumers, investors and governments.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce laid out its agenda as lawmakers prepare to return to the Statehouse next year to craft a two-year budget and consider dipping into the state’s $6 billion surplus to improve public health outcomes, education and workforce development.
A 2020 Indiana Department of Health report on the emotional, health and economic costs of perinatal care for infants shortly after birth, said the financial costs for premature births in Indiana are estimated to be between $655-678 million annually.
The agreement, which includes Indiana, resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the beleaguered company, which still faces nine separate lawsuits from other states and hundreds of individual suits.
His crusade, joined by many others locally and nationally, had begun informally in 2014, and he had been involved in serious negotiations with the NBA for more than a year.
