Daniels blames Obama for weak economy
In the GOP response to the president's State of the Union address, Daniels cast his party as compassionate and eager to unchain the country's potential.
In the GOP response to the president's State of the Union address, Daniels cast his party as compassionate and eager to unchain the country's potential.
Indiana's House Ways and Means chairman is pushing for $5 million more for victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse and $80 million to pay for full-day kindergarten.
For-profit colleges like Carmel-based ITT Educational Services would be forced to rely less on federal money under a bill aimed at curbing the marketing of degrees to soldiers and veterans.
The Indiana Supreme Court handed down an order that sets out a repayment schedule for the $2.4 million that United Financial Systems Corp. still owes its former customers.
The Indiana House's Democratic leader said Friday his boycotting members are willing to return at "high noon" Monday to begin debating a contentious right-to-work bill, although the ongoing dispute over whether a statewide referendum on the issue is constitutional could prevent legislative action.
Indiana House Democrats got a boost Thursday when a judge temporarily blocked the collection of $1,000-a-day fines imposed on them for their legislative boycott over the contentious right-to-work bill, and their leader said they might return to the House chamber Friday to vote.
The state’s largest green group is seeking changes to measures it says could strip funding and oversight for environmental protection.
A proposed smoking ban with new exemptions is on its way to the full City-County Council. A committee passed the plan Tuesday night. The ban would exclude off-track betting facilities, tobacco stores, hookah bars and some other clubs. It would allow membership clubs to vote on whether to allow smoking as long as all members were older than 18. The full council will hear the proposal Jan. 30.
An Indiana Senate committee is advancing a plan to put more money into state savings accounts before automatic tax refunds go out to taxpayers.
IPS has declined to sell or lease these buildings to charter schools.
Getting people out of their cars to use something more time-consuming and less convenient is a tall order.
Council Democrats decided to act as through the mayor has no say in what becomes law.
The mass transit proposal now being supported by business and community groups is similar in complexity to Unigov.
Daniels is coming off of seismic education reforms.
Indiana House Democrats say they'll go to court to challenge the $1,000-a-day fines they face for their legislative boycott over the right-to-work bill.
Indiana House Republicans have approved $1,000-a-day fines against Democratic legislators who are boycotting over a right-to-work bill.
An Indiana Senate committee has endorsed a proposal giving state residents limited rights to resist police officers trying to enter their homes.
Legislators stung last year by county prosecutors who opposed a sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana’s criminal sentencing scheme won’t push the issue this year. Sheriffs now are worried that an attempt to reduce crowding in state prisons could aggravate overpopulation in their jails.
Lawmakers looking to protect teens debated spray tans at the Statehouse on Thursday. Legislators heard testimony on a bill that would require minors to get written consent from their parents to get a spray tan. For spray tans applied by a person, the proposed legislation would require teens to have a parent in the room with them if they choose to be partly or completely nude. The person applying the spray tan would also have to be the same gender as the client.