Editorials

We encourage the governor to use a similar approach as he faces future public records issues.

But Indiana’s 5th District voters deserve representation in congressional committees, too.

Public health is an area where the state has repeatedly failed to make progress. We believe that’s changing, and we urge lawmakers to give the programs time to take root and produce results.•

The CHIPS Act focuses on microelectronics and battery technology, but the future of artificial intelligence could also be at stake.

The House has taken steps to eliminate the backlog in rape kits that need processing. We urge the Senate and Gov. Mike Braun’s administration to finish the job.

The budget plan, which is now under consideration in the Indiana Senate, includes $15 million for the project, which will encompass about 7.5 acres on the White River’s western bank.

Housing prisoners and fighting crime are just the types of jobs local governments need money to do, especially when they aren’t getting paid as they should for their services.

Lawmakers must seek to balance the needs of local government with what it’s fair to ask the public to pay.

We don’t see a need to inject more politics into school boards.

But it’s not the best solution. What the Hogsett administration would most like to see—and IBJ has endorsed—is a change in a state road-funding formula that currently favors rural communities over urban and suburban ones.

Residents need to get to school and to work and to the grocery store—safely. That is a core responsibility of government.

Rather than simply wiping regulations off the books without analysis, Gov. Mike Braun is urging agencies to review ways to simplify the rules, eliminate those that don’t apply to public safety and make the regulatory process more efficient and affordable.

If lawmakers decide that property taxes should be reduced—which is an argument for another day—there are ways to do it without undermining a system that was meant to inject fairness among payers. Lawmakers should focus their energy on those solutions.

There are many lessons in Carter’s work, but two things stand out. One is that Carter lived his later life with intention, and the second is that the activities he chose were aimed at helping others.

Another win for LEAP and more accountability by public officials are on our wish list.

The moves—if fully implemented—will strip some authority away from Indiana’s lieutenant governor.

Central Indiana is full of places to buy amazing gifts, whether your friends or loved ones are looking for something practical or they’re after something special.

Promoting leaders accused of harassment and other problems turns people away from government institutions. Our elected officials—from both parties and at all levels of government—must do better.