Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence said Friday that his plan promoting two-parent households as a means of breaking children out of poverty would be limited to married couples, meaning gay couples in Indiana would be excluded.
A survey of Hoosier business owners shows an increasingly a ho-hum outlook, with only one in seven optimistic for their own company and even fewer encouraged about the U.S. economy.
The engine maker says that slowing demand led to the decision to scale back hours for the 350 workers at its Columbus Fuel Systems Plant. The new four-day workweek will continue indefinitely.
Tax cuts being pushed by gubernatorial candidates are hardly guaranteed a rubber stamp from lawmakers, Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said Thursday as he rolled out the 2013 agenda for his caucus.
Tax cuts being pushed by gubernatorial candidates are hardly guaranteed a rubber stamp from lawmakers, and a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage could win quick approval next year, Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said Thursday.
Indiana’s major-party candidates for governor can’t bestow a job upon every unemployed Hoosier, but each has offered what he considers the next-best thing: at least $500 million in tax cuts.
In a state where political maneuvers and those making them are often maligned, Lugar has been a source of Hoosier pride.
Just what is this so-called “fiscal cliff” that is regularly injected into discussions as the political season heats up?
Indianapolis city-county councilors hope expanding the downtown TIF district will mean more jobs for their constituents. Developers, city contractors and other firms benefiting from the expanded economic-development zone must try to ensure that 40 percent of their work force comes from within the expanded TIF area.
Indiana gubernatorial candidate John Gregg sought to downplay expectations from fellow Democrats Tuesday about what he might do if he beats the odds and gets elected next month.
Indiana has quickly become a major battleground in the race for control of the U.S. Senate, with national Republicans and Democrats forking over more cash this week to tea party favorite Richard Mourdock and Democrat Joe Donnelly.
It would be “absurd” and a “travesty” for Indiana not to expand its Medicaid program, according to two local hospital officials. And yet other health care leaders do not expect expanded Medicaid coverage to provide nearly as much help to uninsured Hoosiers as hoped.
The Evansville-based utility estimates all residential gas customers would see their gas bills increase an average of $3.90 per month for eight years—for a total cost of $375 per consumer.
The amount of money awarded through the state's Historic Preservation Fund has dropped nearly $100,000 over the past year.
The 4-H agriculture association wants full-time occupation of booths so that visitors get a full fair experience. The contract requires that vendors stay at the fair until 10 p.m. the final day.
The race for Indiana’s U.S. Senate seat is in a dead heat, according to a poll released Thursday. The Howey-DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll shows Democrat Joe Donnelly leading Republican Richard Mourdock, 40 percent to 38 percent. A margin of error of 3.5 percent makes the race too close to call. The poll also shows Republican Mike Pence with a huge lead over Democrat John Gregg.
I know Rex Early is a loyal Republican but I was surprised of his [Sept. 1 column] support for Mourdock. While he may tell it as he sees it, he fails to understand it is a mighty thin pancake that does not have two sides.
There will be health care rationing. The only question is who will do the rationing—the government, health care providers, or you and me. The odds are good there will be some rationing from all those sources
Suddenly gone is the strident rhetoric in which Mourdock proclaimed that bipartisanship meant Democrats coming over to Republicans' thinking and that winning meant he would "inflict my opinion on someone else."
