SHELLA: Indiana Legislature likely to deliver the unexpected
If you want to know what really matters in the upcoming legislative session it’s likely impossible to find out now.
If you want to know what really matters in the upcoming legislative session it’s likely impossible to find out now.
The following is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
In a wide-ranging interview, Gov. Mitch Daniels discusses his goals for the General Assembly, which convenes Wednesday. Among them: Implement a statewide smoking ban, make Indiana a right-to-work state, and end what he calls “credit creep” for college students.
Local CBS affiliate WISH-TV has fired award-winning field reporter Brad Edwards, but General Manager Jeff White said the station will soon hire a replacement, plus two additional reporters to grow its staff.
Indiana's Republican House leader said Tuesday that lawmakers will almost immediately take up right-to-work legislation that's likely to dominate much of the state's 2012 session.
Indiana excise police say officers will be watching partiers to make sure public drinking doesn't get out of hand during the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
An after-hours nightclub and a sports apparel shop operated by Indianapolis-based Lids Sports Group will occupy much of the space, dubbed “The Huddle,” during the festivities starting on Jan. 27.
Local TV news operations have built temporary studios downtown, budgeted thousands for overtime, assigned special Super Bowl beats to field reporters, and will broadcast hours of extra news coverage between now and Feb. 6, the day after Super Bowl XLVI.
All of this union-backed expression is in response to the right-to-work bill.
A former employee of Ambassadair travel club is trying to raise $5.3 million to finance the first six months of a business created in its image.
This week, meet James Burnes, who launched virtual patent-marking service PatentStatus LLC in January and spent the first weekend of February hobnobbing with corporate bigwigs in town for Super Bowl XLVI.
There has been a lot of disinformation and misinformation in Indiana politics of late with regard to the residency issue.
Spurred by fundraising campaigns by local television stations, more than $1 million has been raised to help victims of last week’s devastating tornadoes in southern Indiana. In addition to doing a good thing, the stations are getting a marketing boost from their efforts.
Student-reporting programs at Franklin College, Butler University aid cash-strapped newspapers statewide.
Long knows that, in order to keep his leadership post, he has to give in to a number of conservative demands.
The city’s public radio and television stations are more than holding their own, even as their commercial brethren continue to suffer from a now-5-year-old economic swoon.
April 14
Athenaeum Theatre
Jim Lehrer provides the keynote address, two high school students pick up writing awards, and Joe Raiola, senior editor of Mad Magazine, offers a comedy performance called “The Joy of Censorship” at this dinner celebration of Indy’s favorite literary son. Jim Shella of WISH-TV emcees. Details here.
Since Tuesday, fans, coaches and prominent journalists have fired off more than 150 messages on Twitter or on blog posts either blasting the Indianapolis-based NCAA or praising Greg Shaheen, who had overseen all 89 of the NCAA’s championships since August 2010.