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6 days ago · Memphis man recounts teenage days aiding worker’s strike during King’s last visit to the city BY: Holly McCall - January 20, 2025 MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National Guard uniforms, others with red and white signs draped around ...
Indiana lawmakers contemplate slashing unemployment insurance …
Jan 16, 2025 · Legislation nearly halving how long Hoosiers can collect unemployment insurance split a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday — alongside proposals loosening engineer registration requirements and raising certain pension benefits. The Senate’s Pensions and Labor Committee took only testimony, no votes ...
Check out our top 10 stories of the year
Dec 25, 2024 · 9. Supercharging county public health. Also last year, lawmakers spent big on public health. After a yearlong analysis from the Governor’s Public Health Commission found that Indiana spends a paltry average of $55 per resident annually, they authorized $225 million over two years in optional funding for counties.. Whitney reported that nearly all counties opted into the first year of funding ...
Breaking down the fiscal issues that will dominate 2025 legislative ...
Jan 6, 2025 · Lawmakers will convene Wednesday to begin drafting the state’s next two-year budget, determining how to spend approximately $44 billion dollars to fund government services such as schools, health insurance programs and infrastructure as well as tackling other fiscal issues. A December revenue ...
Lawmakers hint at road funding changes • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Dec 19, 2024 · Budget heads and others called on the Indiana General Assembly to boost transportation infrastructure funding at the state and local levels.
What to expect in the final hours before Indiana's first execution ...
Dec 17, 2024 · Later, at his sentencing, Corcoran stated that he wanted to waive all his appeals. And in the early 2000s, when the time was still ripe for Corcoran to initiate post-conviction review, he refused to sign the post-conviction petition.
Schoolhouse Rock, Indiana edition: How a bill becomes a law
Dec 27, 2024 · A biennial budget of more than $40 billion is on the line come January, alongside hundreds of other proposals from Indiana lawmakers. Just a fraction become law. How do we get there? Some might call it organized chaos, but the legislative session has an established trajectory that begins with filing ...
With one week (we think) left to go, here are some issues hanging …
Mar 4, 2024 · A Senate chamber vote is also expected Monday for House Bill 1001.The work-based learning proposal — which builds off a massive 2023 bill that put in motion statewide career-centered education and training programs — would expand career scholarships accounts (CSAs) for training and apprenticeships, rather than traditional college degrees. If passed, the bill still needs final approval from ...
Lawmakers get first glimpse of budget asks
Nov 13, 2024 · Indiana’s State Budget Committee on Tuesday kicked off its first hearing for the upcoming 2026 and 2027 fiscal years. Lawmakers are set to file an initial vision for the $40 billion-plus biennial budget in January.