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New grading system for Indiana schools results in mixed marks
The state Department of Education released its controversial A through F letter grades Wednesday for more than 2,000 Indiana schools.
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State releases new grading system for schools
The state Department of Education released its controversial A through F letter grades today for more than 2,000 Indiana schools.
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Indiana courts seeing decrease in filings
The 2011 Indiana Judicial Service Report, released Monday, shows the overall number of criminal and civil cases being handled by judges and court personnel down to about where it was a decade ago.
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Indiana’s third party sees progress beyond its wins
Inside the Indiana Libertarian Party headquarters in downtown Indianapolis is a hardy band of volunteers who don’t see losing a political race quite the same way other people do.
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Libertarians try to leverage ‘Survivor’ celebrity to win votes
The Democratic and Republican candidates running for governor this year are spending millions upon millions of dollars to get voters to pay attention to them. The third guy in the race just has to show up.
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Freshman lawmaker makes jump to statewide ticket
Last April, not long after returning home from a contentious legislative session, freshman state lawmaker Sue Ellspermann got a call from someone who said he was with Mike Pence’s gubernatorial campaign.
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Pence campaign rooted in victories and mistakes of the past
In 2006, Indiana congressman Mike Pence found himself in an unlikely place: Sitting across from U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, the unabashed liberal Democrat whose beliefs about the interventionist role of federal government were polar opposite from those of the Republican Pence.
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Veteran legislator brings different view to Democratic ticket
The general election of 1984 wasn’t a good year for Democrats, as Republicans in Indiana and across the nation rode in on the coattails of President Ronald Reagan’s landslide re-election.
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For Democrat Gregg, politics is about the personal
In John Gregg’s book about his life in politics, the southern Indiana Democrat opens the first chapter with a somber quote about the moral roots of public service and a humorous description of himself as a “burrheaded pudgy kid.”
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U.S Senate race coming down to the wire
In the high-stakes race for the U.S. Senate, Indiana’s major-party candidates and their supporters have waged aggressive and costly campaigns to woo voters like Aaron Williford.
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Campaigning to lead state schools
Glenda Ritz and Tony Bennett are both longtime educators, but how they see the sweeping changes in Indiana schools and classrooms couldn’t be more different.
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Maureen Hayden: Voters face challenges to stay engaged
To make sure I could vote in the November election and not fail the standards set by Indiana’s voter ID law, I took a trip to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles a couple of weeks ago to get a new license with my most current address.
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Clinton, during Indy visit, calls for cooperation
About 4,000 Democrats welcomed former President Bill Clinton to the North Central High School gymnasium Friday for a “Hoosier Common Sense Rally” in support of U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly in his race for U.S. Senate.
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Alcohol, smoking and gambling issues may return to Statehouse
Alcohol, cigarettes and gambling weren’t on the legislative agenda rolled out by Indiana House Republicans last week, but it’s likely they’ll be back at the Statehouse again next session anyway.
The three vices affect the state’s health and wealth in a variety of ways, which is why questions about how to regulate them keep returning. -
Maureen Hayden: Republicans embrace Bosma’s ‘Own Your Own Dream’ agenda
You may be hearing a lot more about the “American dream” from Republicans in the Indiana Statehouse in coming months.
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With eye on power, House Republicans set agenda
There’s still a month to go before the November election, but Republicans who dominate the Indiana House of Representatives have already unveiled their legislative focus for the next session.
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Daniels announces boost to state pension funds
On Thursday, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that $360 million from the state’s budget surplus will go to shore up five public pension funds.
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Lawsuit challenges Indianapolis monument's protest policy
Eric Smith is a disabled war veteran who decided to protest the United States’ involvement with a global arms-trade treaty by standing on the steps of Indiana’s most famous war monument with protest signs in hand and his 10-year-old son at his side. But because Smith didn’t have a permit to do so, he wasn’t there long before he was told to leave or risk being arrested.
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Rewrite of criminal code seeks to match crime and punishment
To understand why the Indiana criminal code may undergo a major overhaul in the next legislative session, it helps to know that child molesters and rapists face less prison time than someone caught with a few grams of cocaine standing near a public park.
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Maureen Hayden: Commission making progress on state’s sentencing reform
At a recent meeting of the state’s Criminal Code Evaluation Commission, one of the members described a class D felony as the kind of crime most people have committed but just hadn’t been caught for it.
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State’s tough drug-free zone law may be on its way out
Some key legislators want to do away Indiana’s tough, penalty-enhancing “drug-free zone” law, saying it no longer serves its original intent of protecting children from drug dealers.
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Panel eyes new approach for Indiana high school seniors
The push to nearly double the number of Hoosiers with college degrees by 2025 may change the way Indiana high school students spend their senior year.
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Indiana DCS director resigns amid ethical scrutiny
Indiana’s top child-protection official resigned today amid questions of whether he violated his agency’s code of conduct through his involvement in a child neglect case involving his grandchildren.
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Public sentiment and fiscal issues shift the pot debate in Indiana
Chad Padgett is a retired juvenile corrections officer from Logansport who found himself in an unexpected place last summer: Testifying in front of the Indiana Legislature’s sentencing policy study committee holding a hearing on the merits of relaxing the state’s marijuana laws.
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Voters may see more guns at polling places
A 2011 state law that barred local governments from enforcing their own gun restrictions also covers many public buildings where people go to vote.
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Steele pushes to decriminalize pot possession
An influential Republican lawmaker believes it’s time for Indiana to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and plans to include language to do so in legislation to overhaul the state’s criminal code.
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Indiana judges revise ‘parenting time’ rules in custody cases
After two years of review, Indiana judges have approved proposed changes to a comprehensive set of guidelines aimed at reducing conflict between parents in child custody cases.
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Maureen Hayden: Newest justice noteworthy for role in protecting children
Finally. That was the word uttered time and again, with an exclamation point for emphasis, late last week when Gov. Mitch Daniels announced he’d picked a woman to sit on what’s been the all-male Indiana Supreme Court.
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Push is on for limiting schools’ use of physical restraints
Advocates and parents of children with special needs want the Indiana Legislature to require schools to have clear guidelines on when to use physical restraints and isolation rooms to discipline students.
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Expert: Ind. stage collapse compensation fair
The architect of compensation for victims of last year's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was "exceedingly fair" with victims.
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