Indiana could share in $75M to help waterways
Indiana is one of a dozen states that could be getting a slice of about $75 million in federal funds this year to improve
the water quality of its rivers and streams.
Indiana is one of a dozen states that could be getting a slice of about $75 million in federal funds this year to improve
the water quality of its rivers and streams.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Indianapolis has been without a presidentially appointed U.S. attorney for more than two years.
Joe Hogsett, a former secretary of state, is likely the frontrunner.
Inflation causes lenders to raise interest rates. Businesses slow their borrowing, produce less and require fewer workers. Within a year or so, inflation becomes everyoneâ??s problem.
The Obama administration on Friday is proposing regulations aimed at protecting workers' retirement savings.
In a recent interview with Barrons, Daniels gave far more detail about how he’d apply his approach to state government
at the federal level.
California lawmakers grilled Anthem Blue Cross executives on Tuesday about their plan to boost individual insurance premiums
by as much as 39 percent, only to hear them blame the economy and a broken health care system.
After years of denying interest in a presidential bid, Indiana governor tells Washington Post political writer he
may consider bid for Republican nomination on platform of fiscal responsibility.
Claims by Toyota in internal documents that it saved money by obtaining a limited recall from regulators in 2007 create an
even bigger challenge for the automaker's president when he testifies before U.S. lawmakers this week over quality and
safety lapses.
Bayh, who announced last week that he would not seek a third term in the Senate, has wide legal flexibility in directing the
$12.2 million left in his campaign account.
Sen. Evan Bayh brought home the bacon—more than
$1.4 billion in federal appropriations and grants in just the last 12 months.
Europe, not the United States, has the best growth prospects, an Asian executive told Gov. Mitch Daniels during a trade mission
last fall. Why? America’s escalating debt.
The funds will be used for construction on the remaining 4.5 miles of the $62.5 million project, officials announced Wednesday.
Sen. Evan Bayh’s decision not to seek a third term left Indiana Democrats on Monday scrambling to identify a general election
candidate while grappling with the loss of their most reliable vote-getter and the only party member to win a statewide office
in the past decade.
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.
Hamilton County is poised to become the demographic all-star of the decade. Its 269,785 residents make up the fastest-growing,
most educated and wealthiest county in the state, according to estimates from the Indiana Business Research Center.
Former Senator Dan Coats said he was re-entering politics because he is increasingly alarmed and frustrated about the direction of the country.
The president’s budget offers tax cuts for businesses, including a $5,000 tax credit for hiring new workers this year, help
for the unemployed and $25 billion more for cash-strapped state governments. Job creation will take precedence over stemming
a surging deficit.
The president’s unemployment strategy is twofold: create jobs, and force Republicans to choose between helping Main Street
and Wall Street.
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.