Members of the state’s Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee voted 12-0 on Tuesday morning to stall legislation that would give central Indiana voters the ability to choose if they want to pay higher taxes for expanded mass transit.
Legislators are pushing for a tax incentive to boost venture capital in Indiana as it falls behind other states in investments. A bill starting a state-level version of the federal New Markets Tax Credit awaits a hearing in the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee after the Senate approved it with a 40-9 vote in […]
Indiana could expand health insurance coverage for low-income Hoosiers entirely through private health insurance plans under an amendment adopted by a House committee on Monday. The change was immediately criticized by the Pence administration.
Some key state senators are sidelining a bill that would make Amazon.com and other online-only retailers start collecting Indiana's 7-percent sales tax this summer.
A federal judge has rebuffed three Indiana lawmakers who asked to be allowed to step into a legal dispute over the state's immigration law after the attorney general declined to defend it.
Taking videos and photos at Indiana farms and factories without permission would be a crime under a proposal endorsed 9-3 Thursday by the House agriculture committee.
A legislative committee has backed harsher penalties for pot possession and dealing in a proposed overhaul of Indiana’s criminal sentencing laws.
Republican pundit Mary Matalin is among several celebrities lobbying Indiana lawmakers to oppose a bill banning filming at farms and factories.
The Indiana Senate Education Committee is signing off on a limited expansion of school vouchers one day after the state's highest court deemed vouchers constitutional.
The state House of Representatives sent Gov. Mike Pence a bill Tuesday that requires the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to make job-creation reports transparent to taxpayers and policy makers.
Complacency and overreach are certainly real concerns any time a political party has the type of success the Indiana Republican Party has had in recent election cycles.
Hoosiers are often thought of as resistant to change (daylight-saving time, anyone?).
In these pages last fall, I complained about gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence playing politics with the implementation of federal health reform. Unfortunately, now that he’s been elected governor, the game-playing continues and uninsured Hoosiers continue to be pawns in Pence’s game with federal officials.
As the end of the annual meeting of our General Assembly draws nigh, it is not inappropriate to once again view both the legislation considered and the general health and well-being of the system itself as it works in the Great Hoosier Heartland.
I’m optimistic about the future of Hoosier Democrats, particularly at the state level and in Marion County. Why, you ask?
As the first governor since the Civil War to win election with less than 50 percent of the vote, Mike Pence has a political capital problem. And it’s starting to show.
Unquestionably, the biggest political news of this young year was the decision by City-County Councilor Jose Evans to join the Republican Party.
City-county councilors have a nasty tradition of agreeing with one another to blackball developments within their individual districts.
No one pays attention to a sentence buried in the middle of a recent news story out of Indiana University.
Quick, describe a Hoosier swing voter. White, married, middle-class male from southern Indiana, somewhere between 35 and 55 years old, right?
