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Editorial: Cigarette tax hike a win for Hoosiers, regardless of why lawmakers did it

May 2, 2025

The budget approved last week increases the tax by $2 per pack and imposes similar increases on other tobacco products, including vaping products.

Letters: Federal funding doesn’t equal better schools

May 2, 2025

It seems like the headline of the column by U.S. Rep. Andre Carson—“Schools, families rely on federal funds for education”—describes the problem instead of the solution for our past and present, horrific performance [Forefront, April 11]. Please explain why your focus for our schools in this district is federal funding, rather than improving the status […]

Chris Gahl: Support humanities as avidly as sports in tumultuous times

May 2, 2025 | Chris Gahl

With a mission to encourage Hoosiers to think, read and talk, Indiana Humanities delivers national-award-winning programs that inform and delight Hoosiers in big cities and small towns across the state.

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS, NPR

May 2, 2025 | Associated Press

The broadcasters get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and have been preparing for the possibility of stiff cuts since Trump’s election.

Braun chides Beckwith for Three-Fifths Compromise comments, defends tax plan

April 30, 2025 | Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle

Indiana cabinet members, lawmakers, lobbyists and more gathered Wednesday to celebrate Gov. Mike Braun’s first 100 days in office—but the man of the hour had tough words for his second-in-command.

Supreme Court seems open to allowing religious public schools

April 30, 2025 | The Washington Post

Supporters say denying full public funding to religious public charter schools amounts to anti-religious discrimination since states allow full taxpayer funding to other types of charter schools.

Indiana Economic Development Foundation releases annual audits at Gov. Braun’s demand

April 30, 2025 | Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle

The state-affiliated nonprofit averaged more than $2 million in spending annually on travel and more.

Public Broadcasting sues Trump after attempted board firings

April 29, 2025 | The Washington Post

Since taking office for his second term, Trump has targeted National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two broadcasters that receive a portion of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as appropriated by Congress.

Elevate says state funding freeze endangers startups, entrepreneurial community

April 29, 2025 | Susan Orr

Commerce Secretary David Adams announced last week that the state had frozen funds earmarked for Elevate Ventures, but he did not outline specific concerns about the nonprofit or its operations.

Here’s what died–and dropped in–during final hours of Indiana legislative session

April 28, 2025 | Indiana Capital Chronicle staff

Controversial language targeting homeless Hoosiers, regulating marijuana-like products and cracking down on illicit massage parlors perished in the final hours of this year’s General Assembly.

Charter schools score big funding wins, including new property tax sharing law

April 27, 2025 | Amelia Pak-Harvey, Chalkbeat Indiana

Most funding increases for Indiana charter schools won’t take place until 2028, when state law mandates that districts must begin sharing property taxes used for operating expenses.

Pricing legislation shows health reform complexities

April 25, 2025 | Daniel Lee

Indiana lawmakers discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.

Affordable shows have a place on summer concert calendar

April 25, 2025 | Dave Lindquist

Event organizers, with the support of funders, sponsors and other partners, are bringing prominent artists to Indiana this summer and placing minimal financial burden on attendees.

Sheridan, county spar over planned roadwork

April 25, 2025 | Daniel Bradley

Town leaders want to improve and widen a 2.2-mile stretch of West 236th Street from State Road 38 to just east of Six Points Road; they want the county to help with the financing.

Editorial: Indiana has shot to expand key life sciences sector

April 25, 2025

All universities are facing uncertainty about federal funding and grants. But because Indiana hasn’t been so dependent on those dollars for building up its life sciences sector, it might be able to forge a new path.

Indianapolis attorney is part of Trump push to change culture on campus

April 25, 2025 | Lesley Weidenbener

On leave from Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Tom Wheeler is part of the Trump administration’s inter-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is in a battle with Harvard University.

Bill roundup: Lawmakers wrap up budget, tackle final, thorny bills

April 25, 2025 | Cate Charron

Around 1:20 a.m. Friday, Indiana lawmakers approved the last bill of the session: the 2026-27 state budget. Here’s what happened with some of the bills we’ve watched this session.

Public broadcasting support eliminated in newly passed Indiana budget

April 25, 2025 | Dave Lindquist

More than $7 million earmarked to support PBS and NPR affiliates across Indiana, including WFYI in Indianapolis, did not survive late changes to the state budget.

WFYI exterior

Indiana Legislature adopts tight budget with cigarette tax hike, widespread cuts

April 25, 2025 | Cate Charron

The Indiana Legislature approved a pared-down $46.2 billion state budget bill early Friday morning that will triple the state’s cigarette tax and cut funding for a wide swath of entities and programs.

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Final legislative flurry includes bills on health care, absenteeism and school accountability

April 25, 2025 | Indiana Capital Chronicle staff

Thursday alone saw more than two dozen proposals sent to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk, including those dealing with education “deregulation,” pharmaceutical pricing and public retiree bonuses.

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