FEIGENBAUM: Costly transportation projects may spawn taxpayer road rage
Even many lawmakers expected the Major Moves transportation fund would obviate the need to find large amounts of state dollars for critical projects.
Home » Search
Search Results
13,764 results for 'republic'
- Sort By
-
Date
- Any Time
- Past Day
- Past Week
- Past Month
- Past Year
-
Custom Date Range
Articles
HETRICK: How we can avoid a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ in the making
For the past few weeks, Washington has been buzzing about contraceptives. It’s to be expected from a dramatic comedy dripping with sex, religion, government and health insurance.
How we can avoid a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ in the making
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” —Margaret Atwood, “The Handmaid’s Tale” For the past few weeks, Washington has been buzzing about contraceptives. It’s to be expected […]
Still no decisions on Indiana smoking, police-entry bills
Legislators finished work Wednesday without an agreement yet on just how comprehensive a statewide smoking ban they might adopt and without the support of a major police group for a proposal laying out when residents might be legally justified in using force against police officers.
Indianapolis bond bank chief Kintner is clutch hitter
Deron Kintner has stepped up to fund a string of high-profile real estate projects at a time when private-sector financing is scarce.
Carbon Motors says DOE won’t give it $310M loan
Carbon Motors Corp., which hoped to create hundreds of jobs and thousands of high-tech, fuel-efficient police cars in Indiana, said the U.S. Department of Energy is not going to give the company a critical $310 million loan.
Indiana tax revenues concern Senate budget leader
The Indiana Senate's budget leader says a two-month shortfall in state tax revenues won't threaten plans for directing more money toward full-day kindergarten programs and victims of the state fair stage collapse.
Talks start on Indiana smoking-ban compromise
Legislators began negotiations Monday toward a compromise on proposed statewide smoking restrictions, with a leading supporter of a comprehensive ban saying the bill shouldn't prevent cities and counties from adopting tougher ordinances.
Retirement wave will give Indiana House new look
The loss of hundreds of years of experience in the House, including the top Republican and Democratic budget writers, has some worried that paid lobbyists could gain an even heftier role within the General Assembly.
Daniels wants strict smoking ban, but will accept lenient bill
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Friday he will accept a weakened smoking ban if that’s what it takes to get some sort of smoke-free measure approved in his final year as governor.
Fight over tuition for immigrants derails bill
Indiana senators fearing a backlash from conservatives scuttled an expansive education proposal this week after it was amended to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants already enrolled in state schools.
FEIGENBAUM: Fiscal issues to dominate waning days of the session
This year, with the right-to-work debate having sucked all the air out of the session—and largely all the fight out of House Democrats—before the Super Bowl, the final weeks of the session are less intriguing than usual.
RUSTHOVEN: A chilling threat to faith-based services
Everyone’s freedom is at risk when a president can order someone to do something “without charge.”
Wallace ends Indiana governor bid after ballot denial
Indianapolis businessman Jim Wallace has ended his longshot bid for the Republican nomination for governor after being denied a spot on the ballot.
Bill requiring stage inspections heads to governor
The Indiana Senate voted 41-5 Thursday in favor of the bill giving the state Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission the power to regulate stages and other temporary structures.
Indiana Senate approves diluted state smoking ban
For all the bluster a statewide smoking ban sparked at the beginning of the 2012 legislative session, the version Indiana lawmakers may end up approving seems little more than a wisp of smoke.
TORR: Right-to-work won’t cost a single legislator his or her job
Our own polling showed that even union members and self-identified Democrats supported right-to-work by slim margins.
DELANEY: Teachers, working class will reject austerity world view
Union leaders will organize their get-out-the-vote efforts at a far higher level than in the past.
DOWD: GOP is now the Ghastly Outdated Party
President Barack Obama has deranged conservatives just as W. deranged liberals.