Panel hears warnings on rising Indiana prison population, local corrections funding shortfalls
Indiana lawmakers heard stark warnings that the state’s prison population is again nearing capacity while funding for local alternatives is shrinking.
Indiana lawmakers heard stark warnings that the state’s prison population is again nearing capacity while funding for local alternatives is shrinking.
The Mayor’s Action Center at the City-County Building has a dozen employees who operate as the front line for complaints and questions for the Hogsett administration. Yet, those employees are among the lowest paid in the city-county enterprise.
The planned installation of a 30-foot-tall sculpture in Broad Ripple is bringing attention to neglected pieces of public art in the neighborhood.
Federal funds expire when the fiscal year ends Tuesday night, and Congress appears deadlocked over a stopgap measure that would keep agencies online for seven weeks while long-term negotiations continue.
Secretary of Commerce David Adams remains both CEO and president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., but that’s expected to change next month.
White House aides, ahead of the meeting, made it clear the Republican administration had no intention to negotiate.
If Congress fails to approve a funding extension by the end of Tuesday, spending laws will expire and the U.S. government will become a bare-bones operation, continuing only functions necessary to protect life or public property.
The video jolted the cannabis industry, sending stocks soaring and raising hopes that the president will take a permissive approach to marijuana.
The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday if the Senate does not pass a House measure that would extend federal funding for seven weeks while lawmakers finish their work on annual spending bills.
The $20 million fiscal package is an addendum to the Hogsett administration’s $1.7 billion proposed budget for 2026.
Senate Democrats voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government for seven weeks on Tuesday night.
Here’s what to know about the federal government shutdown that began Wednesday:
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. approved $10 million in federal funding for the planned OneHealth Venture Studio, which will operate on Elanco Animal Health’s new Indianapolis campus.
That’s in part because Indiana “isn’t as dependent on federal government largess,” Gov. Mike Braun told reporters on Wednesday.
A new state law for many public officials mandates reporting every Oct. 1 on travel expenses for trips “taken in an official capacity,” including whether state funding was used to cover costs.
The 127-page report comes just over a week after the IEDC board unanimously agreed to publicly share it—pending legal review—and roughly five months after it was announced.
The report details findings related to the Indiana Economic Development Corp., the Indiana Economic Development Foundation, the LEAP District, Elevate Ventures and the Applied Research Institute.
The valuation reflects high expectations for the future of AI technology and continues OpenAI’s remarkable trajectory from its start as a nonprofit research lab in 2015.
The federal government remained shut down Thursday amid an ongoing partisan divide over funding laws with no immediate end in sight.
Across the college sports ecosystem, universities are under pressure to find new ways to raise revenue, after a landmark federal settlement over student athletes’ name, image and likeness rights opened the door for them to be paid by schools.