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House committee pushes Pence to negotiate Medicaid expansion
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has insisted he won’t expand what he calls the “broken” Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, but some state legislators are encouraging him to do so, even it’s called by another name.
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Debate over pot penalties not over in Indiana
The politics of pot may keep Indiana lawmakers from rolling back the state’s tough marijuana laws this session, but it won’t eradicate the push for decriminalization.
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Gun-rights lawmaker wants tougher gun penalty
One of the chief sponsors of legislation that would rewrite the Indiana criminal code wants to amend the bill to add a mandatory five-year prison sentence for using a gun to commit a felony.
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DOC says criminal code bill will cause spike in prison numbers
A week after Gov. Mike Pence caught lawmakers by surprise with his opposition to a major criminal code reform bill, the state Department of Correction is projecting the bill will blow up the state’s prison population far beyond what the legislature’s non-partisan research agency says it will.
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Indiana's tuition law gets one more look
Two years ago, Indiana lawmakers bent on cracking down on illegal immigration passed a law that banned in-state college tuition for children of undocumented workers, and resulted in hundreds of students dropping out when they couldn’t afford the much higher out-of-state rates.
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Voucher opponents rally at Statehouse
Hundreds of people gathered at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to rally against a bill that would expand the state’s private-school voucher program, already the largest in the nation.
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Karen Pence forging her role as Indiana's first lady
As the mother of three young children when her husband was first elected to Congress, Karen Pence heeded the advice of some friends who encouraged her to move her family to the Washington, D.C., area rather than stay behind in Indiana.
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PPD to honor local heroes
PITTSBORO — Two employees of the Pittsboro Veterinary Clinic became heroes in their community when they intervened in a domestic violence situation on Feb. 22.
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Commission calls for closing college ‘achievement gap’
The Indiana Commission on Higher Education wants the state’s colleges and universities to be more aggressive in closing the graduation “achievement gap” for Hispanic and black students, who are dropping out of college at a significantly higher rate than white students.
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Online sales tax bill may not get Senate hearing
Legislation that would speed up the date for when Amazon and other online retailers would have to start collecting the state sales tax may be dead.
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Pence finds new role ‘fundamentally different’
Gov. Mike Pence has made no secret that his Christian faith is critical to his identity, but he may be relying on his faith more than ever before in his challenging new political role.
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Gov. Pence opposes provisions to expand gaming
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence isn’t saying the word “veto,” but he’s making clear he opposes key provisions in a Senate gaming bill that would allow riverboat casinos to move inland and add live table games to the slot-machine rooms at the state’s two horse-racing tracks.
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Revenue department undergoes overhaul
When retired banker Mike Alley became state revenue commissioner last May, he took over a department badly bruised by revelations that it had misplaced a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money.
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Ritz in Anderson to discuss education issues
Indiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz led a panel of community leaders in a discussion of current education topics Saturday morning in the Miami Room of the Anderson Public Library.
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Tea party group to launch campaign to support Pence tax cut
At a press conference at the Statehouse Thursday, a conservative tea-party organization founded by the billionaire Koch brothers announced it was pouring money into a statewide campaign to pressure Republican lawmakers into giving Pence what he wants: a 10 percent cut in the state income tax rate.
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ACLU vows to challenge Indiana abortion bill
A controversial bill that imposes new state requirements on clinics that offer the abortion pill is likely headed for a constitutional challenge if passed and signed into law, as expected.
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Maureen Hayden: Social media may be more appealing to gamblers
Indiana lawmakers have been debating whether to give the state’s casinos more financial incentives to compete with the shiny new gambling palaces popping up in Ohio.
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Ohio casinos target Indiana
Ohio’s decision to get into the lucrative world of gaming is posing a serious threat to Indiana’s share of casino dollars and prompting a Statehouse debate about how to respond.
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Pence vows to push tax cut ‘relentlessly’
Having failed to convince state lawmakers in his own party to embrace his tax cut plan, Gov. Mike Pence is taking his message on the road.
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State revenue department moves to improve local tax distributions
The Indiana Department of Revenue has requested nearly $10 million in additional funding to hire more staff and upgrade its technology to do a better job of tracking and distributing the more than $1.5 billion in income tax revenues owed to local governments each year.
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Maureen Hayden: Pot debate still included in criminal code overhaul
In the flurry of activity at the Statehouse in recent weeks, I missed reporting some sad news for stoners: The legislation to decriminalize marijuana is dead.
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Counties’ organization backs GOP House budget plan over Pence plan
The Republican-dominated Association of Indiana Counties has thrown its support behind the House Republicans’ budget plan that calls for spending the state’s surplus on roads and schools instead of a tax cut proposed by Gov. Mike Pence.
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Indiana seeing surge in gun-permit applications
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police are seeing a surge in gun permit requests amid the national gun-control debate sparked by December’s deadly Connecticut school shooting.
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Indiana House approves disaster relief funding bill
A bill authored by state Rep. Randy Frye, R-Greensburg, would give some financial relief to local fire departments that respond to the state’s call when a disaster hits another community.
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U.S. audit: Indiana should refund $5.8M to Medicaid
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal audit recommends that Indiana’s human services agency refund more than $5.8 million in Medicaid funds because a state hospital failed to “demonstrate compliance” with special conditions for psychiatric hospitals.
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Legislation would reduce use of restraints, isolation rooms in schools
Advocates for children with special needs are backing legislation aimed at reducing the use of physical restraints and locked isolation rooms to discipline students.
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Bill would give high-performing schools more dollars, flexibility
After focusing on failing schools in recent legislative sessions, some Indiana lawmakers say it’s time to reward high-performing schools with more money and more flexibility.
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Maureen Hayden column: Gov. Pence tight-lipped on social issues
As a U.S. congressman, Mike Pence made it perfectly clear how he felt about the need for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
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House passes criminal records expungement bill
Legislation that would give judges much more discretion to erase the criminal records of people who could show they’ve redeemed themselves is headed to the state Senate.
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Indiana Senate advances cursive writing requirement
Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising’s push to require the teaching of cursive writing in elementary schools has gotten national attention. On Tuesday, that push moved forward as her colleagues in the Senate approved her legislation that would reverse the state Department of Education’s decision to make cursive writing optional.
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