Ballard to veto tougher smoking-ban proposal
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard plans to veto a proposed ordinance that would expand the city’s public smoking ban, his spokesman confirmed Thursday.
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Indiana House panel leader leery of creationism bill
The leader of the Indiana House Education Committee said Tuesday a proposal specifically allowing public schools to teach creationism alongside evolution in science classes could be unworkable.
Travel club startup patterned after Ambassadair trying to raise $5 million
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.
Excess land at Fishers airport will be turned over to farming
The town’s leaders had envisioned the Indianapolis Airport Authority property being developed to add to the tax base.
FEIGENBAUM: Right-to-work resolution opens floodgates for other bills
House Democrats and Republicans, who had been bickering like Patriots and Giants fans, suddenly seemed to drop all political pretenses, and returned to conducting the people’s business.
BROOKS: This should be liberalism’s golden age
Obama might consider running for re-election as Luther.
BLOW: Government is a friend, with benefits
The only thing keeping millions more out of poverty were the very safety net programs that many Republicans despise.
STOSSEL: Pining for today’s champions of freedom
Alfred Kahn was a bureaucrat who, under President Carter, managed to kill off the Civil Aeronautics Board and Interstate Commerce Commission.
Indiana Senate broadens teaching creationism proposal
Legislators on Monday broadened a proposal aimed at allowing Indiana's public schools to teach creationism in science classes to require that such courses include origin-of-life theories from multiple religions.
New mixed-use project holds promise for building across street
An 82-year-old downtown commercial building that’s had trouble luring tenants is suddenly positioned to thrive courtesy of an $85 million mixed-use project planned for a site right across the street.
Smoking ban faces roadblock
The Indianapolis City-County Council is set to vote Monday night on a proposed smoking ban with new exemptions, but the measure could face a veto from Mayor Greg Ballard. The proposed ban would exclude off-track-betting facilities, tobacco stores, hookah bars and some private clubs. The sticking point is an exclusion that would prevent clubs from allowing smoking if they also allow children on the premises. Ballard said he wants that restriction removed because it would hurt military veterans’ clubs that host youth events.
Indiana battles legislative ‘creep’ in short session
Indiana senators have introduced 415 bills so far and House members have filed another 400, including so-called vehicle bills, which act as sort of blank slates for lawmakers to amend ideas onto.
Indiana House backs break for bars on smoking ban
The Indiana House has added an 18-month exemption for bars to a bill calling for a broad statewide smoking ban.
ACLU says creationism bill faces constitutional problems
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana's top lawyer said Thursday that a Indiana Senate bill that would allow schools to teach creationism in science classes clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and invites legal challenges.
Bill could put squeeze on recycling programs statewide
Waste management districts would need county OK to levy property taxes to fund their programs.
Apartments rev up residential revival downtown
An apartment building spree downtown is getting fresh fuel with an $85 million mixed-use development that will be anchored by a Marsh grocery.
SKARBECK: Regulatory battle brews over adviser standards
A behind-the-scenes battle is being waged over securities regulators’ proposal to hold investment advisers and stockbrokers to the same fiduciary standard—something investors wrongly assume is already the case.
FEIGENBAUM: Democrats’ end game difficult to decipher
While the end game sought by House Democrats was elusive as they tried to halt the right-to-work bill advocated by all but a handful of House Republicans, the Jan. 25 passage of the legislation in the House doesn’t necessarily offer new certainty.
Kentucky governor: Casino gambling bill coming soon
A long-awaited proposal to open Kentucky to casino gambling so it can compete with neighboring states could be introduced in the state's Senate within days.
Should Indiana phase out inheritance tax?
Supporters of new legislation say the wealthy shouldn’t have to leave the state to avoid the tax.