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.
Bayh might have been sly as a fox by waiting to the last minute to announce he’s leaving the Senate.
Programs will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
The Indiana House and state Senate each passed bills to tighten ethics and lobbying rules, and the Senate Rules Committee
will take up the House bill on Monday.
Issue likely to land in House, Senate conference committee.
More industrial construction is going on in Indiana than in any nearby state.
With traffic congestion growing, the idea of sending streetcars zipping down Washington Street—from
far-east-side Cumberland to Indianapolis International Airport on the west—is making a return. And
the route could offer the best bang for the buck in spurring transit-oriented development.
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.
Legislation that would ban smoking in all public places, enclosed areas of places of employment and certain state vehicles
appears headed for an Indiana General Assembly summer study committee.
Whether to delay increases in taxes that employers pay to Indiana’s unemployment insurance fund is becoming a contentious
issue in the General Assembly.
Want to leave a gun in your car at work? Your employer’s policy may become irrelevant.
Indianapolis leaders are officially seeking proposals from companies interested in running the city’s parking operations—and
possibly additional spaces managed by other government entities.
Sen. Patricia Miller will put on hold a bill that would have have stripped the Indianapolis Historic Preservation
Commission
of much of its authority. The bill was
prompted by incidents including a dispute over St. John United Church of Christ.
Inconceivable as it might sound, will the increasing focus on academic performance in public schools give private schools
a run for their money? It wouldn’t be the first time statistics upset an apple cart.
Officials in Seymour are protesting the announced closing of an Indiana State Police post in their city.
After 30 years of government
studies of a regional transportation system, a private-sector group on Wednesday is set to unveil its own
plan that includes commuter rail and toll lanes added to congested interstate highways.
The team sold Super Bowl tickets to 26 state lawmakers, 27 members of the City-County Council, 10 members of Mayor Greg Ballard’s
office, six other state officials, and four Congressmen.
The jobs can’t come soon enough for Connersville, where unemployment is at 13.8 percent.
State officials are giving Shelbyville’s struggling Intelliplex business park another chance to use tax incentives to land
new companies
and high-paying jobs.
