Iowa-based Vote Smart issued a statement Wednesday that said Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston is airing an ad that attacks his opponent, Democrat Aimee Rivera Cole, “with information he knows to be false.”
Fifty-three of Indiana’s 92 counties were placed in orange or red levels on Wednesday under the state’s color-coded weekly tracking map update, as new infections and hospitalizations increased sharply.
The situation remains murky, as several drugmakers and research institutions are scrambling to develop a vaccine, but none have yet won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute the drug.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Wednesday reported that the seven-day moving average for cases has reached an all-time high of 2,397.
The 30-unit apartment project is aimed at individuals aged 18 to 24 who were previously in the state’s child welfare and fostering system.
Roughly half of the respondents in the two polls favored Republican incumbent Eric Holcomb in the Indiana governor’s race, followed by Democrat Woody Myers and Libertarian Donald Rainwater.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Tuesday reported that the seven-day moving average for cases has reached an all-time high of 2,282.
The state on Monday reported 13 more deaths due to COVID-19. The seven-day moving average for cases has reached an all-time high of 2,215.
Teresa Lubbers, IBJ’s 2020 Michael A. Carroll Award winner, has led the Indiana Commission for Higher Education since 2009.
The three candidates answered questions Tuesday night about education, economic development and the role of government, but spent little time discussing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Indiana Office of Management and Budget Director Cris Johnston said, as of Oct. 15, the administration had either already spent or committed to spending about $1.7 billion of the $2.4 billion the state received from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund
The pace of Indiana’s steadily improving unemployment rate slowed considerably in September. Meanwhile, the state’s labor force participation rate and private employment numbers dropped.
Republican state lawmakers seeking reelection in the northern suburbs are campaigning significantly more this year than in previous elections.
Indiana Democrats are targeting the state attorney general’s race as their best chance to break the stranglehold Republicans have over state government.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Eric Holcomb said the pandemic substantially altered plans, but the commission is still working on a final report to be released before the end of 2020.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb moved Indiana to Stage 5, which essentially lifted all restrictions, on Sept. 26, but COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are back on the increase.
IBJ looked at 30 of the more measurable commitments the governor has made over the last four years to see whether he’s lived up to what he promised and what Hoosiers can expect if he wins a second term.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick, a frequent critic of her fellow Republicans, took several swipes at Gov. Eric Holcomb in an online event Monday night for Dr. Woody Myers.
The state’s attorney disciplinary commission has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to order that Attorney General Curtis Hill pay about $57,000 toward expenses in the case.
The state received $2.4 billion in CARES Act funding, and still has about $1 billion remaining as Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration has been hopeful that Congress would amend the restrictions regarding how and when the dollars can be spent.
