Pence still angling to use Healthy Indiana Plan to expand Medicaid
Decisions by other Republican governors to support Medicaid expansion is increasing pressure on Indiana’s governor to do the same.
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House, Pence split on state’s Medicaid expansion
Gov. Mike Pence is battling with House lawmakers over expanding health care coverage for roughly 400,000 Indiana residents, amid concerns that the state's health care program for the poor won't be able to handle the flood of new enrollees.
Ballard postpones India trip
Trade mission will be rescheduled following bomb blasts that killed 11 in sister city.
Senate panel waters down coal-gas measure
A Senate committee is leaving a contentious battle over a proposed $3 billion coal-gasification plant in the Indiana Supreme Court’s hands for now.
Cash-for-gold retail bill passes Indiana House
The Indiana House on Thursday approved a bill regulating cash-for-gold stores, which have proliferated since gold prices shot up in 2008.
City reports rise in parking meter profit, revenue
Indianapolis estimates it earned about $1 million more from parking meters in 2012, with meter revenue almost doubling from the previous year, the Department of Public Works announced Thursday.
A2SO4 architectural firm reopens after temporary closure
The firm in historic Union Station had been ordered to shut down by the state because it owed more than $43,000 in delinquent taxes, but the state appears to have been mistaken in its decision.
Mass-transit bill amended, ready for House vote
A bill to let voters authorize higher taxes in central Indiana to pay for an expanded mass-transit system is ready for a full vote in the House after an amendment restricted who would be affected by it.
Panel supports scrapping Indiana school grades
A Republican-controlled state Senate committee agreed Wednesday with the new Democratic state schools superintendent that Indiana's A-F grading scale for individual schools should be scrapped.
Bill to toughen state ‘bath salts’ laws advances
The bill would require the state to suspend the business license for a year of any retailer caught selling synthetic drugs or lookalikes.
Bill that would shift Indiana voucher oversight advances
Indiana's new Democratic state schools superintendent would no longer oversee the private school voucher program that she has opposed under a proposal approved Tuesday by a Republican-controlled legislative committee.
Bill to ban Indiana teacher union deductions advances
Republicans sparked protests from teachers and union officials Tuesday by pushing legislation through a House committee that would bar Indiana schools from automatically deducting union dues from teacher paychecks, an issue that critics thought was off the table this year.
Senate OKs Indianapolis Motor Speedway funding plan
A plan providing up to $100 million in state funding toward improvements at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has won approval from the Indiana Senate.
Indiana panel advances $30B budget on partisan vote
A pair of Republican senators argued Tuesday for the personal income tax cut that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has made his top priority, while House Republicans across the hall advanced a budget that swaps that cut for education and roads spending.
Lilly’s Alzheimer’s effort may gain from brain-mapping plan
Roche AG and Eli Lilly and Co., two drugmakers racing to develop treatments for some of the least understood brain disorders, may gain the most from a U.S. government boost in funding to fully map the human brain.
Legislature backs delay for Indiana farmland tax hike
New calculations for property taxes on Indiana farmland would be delayed for a year under a proposal approved by the state Legislature.
Indiana school voucher expansion scaled back
The House Ways and Means Committee removed a provision that would have opened the voucher program to current private school students by not requiring them to first spend at least one year in public schools.
Mourdock not ruling out another run for office
Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock says he hasn't ruled out another run for political office — something he considered after his failed bid for U.S. Senate.
Indiana unlikely to shift from school standards
A bill that could be voted on by the state Senate in the coming week would suspend implementation of the benchmarks at Indiana schools until after the state Board of Education has finished a new review of the standards it adopted in 2010.
Sex-abuse group proposes tax on Indiana strip clubs
A $5 tax charged patrons at the doors of Texas strip clubs generates more $10 million a year. Utah and Illinois also have recently enacted taxes or surcharges to fund programs for victims.