Tired of partisan politics, Sen. Evan Bayh told a standing-room-only crowd at an Indianapolis news conference Monday afternoon
that he will
eschew reelection and wants to “serve society in another way.”
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh has a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. at IUPUI’s
University
Place Conference Center and Hotel, where he will announce that he won’t run for re-election. "I do not love
Congress," he said in a prepared statement.
Republican Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita is running for the congressional seat being vacated by longtime Congressman
Steve Buyer.
The Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute says that all 92 state counties could reap big cost savings — more than $300,000 in Marion
County alone — if they used vote centers on Election Day instead of traditional precinct locations.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer announced Friday that he will not seek re-election this fall and will leave Congress after
18 years because his wife is ill.
Republican Mike Pence said he’ll instead run for re-election to the Congressional seat representing much of eastern Indiana
that he first won in 2000.
The bill, would ban smoking in public places statewide except casinos and pari-mutuel horse racing venues.
A securities-fraud case Secretary of State Todd Rokita brought against the union last month could make matters worse for the
already hobbled ISTA, blunting its ability to help elect Democrats in November.
The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections,
ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates.
Legislation that would allow Indiana voters to cast absentee ballots by mail without having an excuse such as being out of
town on Election Day cleared the House on a mostly party-line vote Wednesday.
A proposal in the Indiana Statehouse would stop homeowners’ associations from banning political signs in members’ yards and
windows near elections.
Proposed legislation that would allow Indiana voters to cast absentee ballots by mail without having an excuse such as being
out of town on Election Day cleared the Democrat-controlled House elections committee, but it could face hurdles in the Republican-led
Senate.
Attorney Tom McKenna of Carmel on Tuesday started a three-day series of appearances across the state to kick off his campaign.
Across Indiana, in more than a dozen different school districts over the past year, taxpayers have sent a message to administrators:
We are no longer giving you a blank check.
After winning 83-percent support for $754 million hospital, Wishard officials hope to sell bonds, pick construction firm
by year’s end.
Ohio voters hit hard by the economic downturn have approved casinos on the fifth try by gambling supporters in the past two
decades.
Unofficial results from Tuesday night’s special election show more than eight out of 10 Marion County voters supporting a new $754 million hospital for Wishard Health Services.
Tuesday’s vote will determine if Marion County Health & Hospital Corp. can sell up to $703 million in taxpayer-backed bonds
to replace the county-owned hospital.
Fiscal responsibility could be the mettle Sen. Evan Bayh needs to land in a higher office.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would make a remarkable president. Governor/ presidentâ??it’s the same game, just a different scale.
