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  Nothing to do this weekend? The Trib-Star's 'BASH section offers some suggestions

  Community Theatre of Terre Haute’s main stage season finale opens this Friday, with the hit Broadway comedy “Social Security,” directed by Sonni Crawford.

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  Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours

  NEW YORK — Kid Rock is a scalper.

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  ISU plans hearing on proposed tuition/fees increase

  Indiana State University will conduct a public hearing at 2 p.m. June 4 to receive input on a proposed 1.95 percent increase in student tuition and mandatory fees for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.

Indiana Legislature

Indiana Legislature

• Senate overhauling $10M school safety proposal

  Indiana Senate Republicans are reworking a school safety measure to better protect against outside threats in response to last month’s deadly shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.

  January 24, 2013  

• Indiana House panel backs more abuse caseworkers

  An Indiana House committee has endorsed a proposal to add dozens of caseworkers and supervisors around the state to investigate child abuse complaints.

  January 23, 2013  

• Indiana lawmakers looking to stem casinos’ decline

  Indiana lawmakers are proposing to cut riverboat casino taxes and allow the floating gambling halls to move onto land to help them face growing competition from neighboring states.

  January 21, 2013  

• Legislature unlikely to toughen Indiana smoking ban

  It appears health advocates have little chance of seeing Indiana’s smoking ban extended to include bars.

  January 18, 2013  

• Correction: Indiana Legislature-Rigging story

  Editor's note: In a Jan. 15 story about legislation that would extend Indiana’s temporary outdoor stage rigging regulations, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the Greenfield lawmaker who sponsored the bill. He is Rep. Robert Cherry, not Cheery.

  January 16, 2013  

• Indiana legislators consider sentencing laws overhaul

  Lawmakers are set to take up a sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana’s criminal sentencing laws after similar attempts stalled the past two years amid opposition from law-enforcement officials.

  January 16, 2013  

• Indiana panel backs stage rigging rules extension

  An Indiana House committee has endorsed a two-year extension of regulations on temporary outdoor stage rigging developed following the deadly State Fair stage collapse.

  January 15, 2013  

• Indiana senator looks to overturn school standards

  A Republican state senator is trying to pull Indiana out of the Common Core State Standards national education initiative, and his bill goes before a legislative committee this week.

  January 15, 2013  

• Indiana lawmakers look at expanding voucher program

  A proposal being considered by Indiana lawmakers would expand the state’s private school voucher program by making it easier for siblings of those already in the program to also receive vouchers.

  January 9, 2013  

• Update: Indiana bill would require teaching cursive writing

  Indiana lawmakers are again considering a push to require the teaching of cursive writing by the state’s schools.

  January 8, 2013  

• Indiana lawmakers return for packed 2013 session

  Indiana’s General Assembly is reconvening for a 2013 session certain to be jammed with debate over the budget, taxes and a raft of divisive social issues.

  January 7, 2013  

• Survey finds support for lighter pot law, opposition to same-sex marriage ban

  A majority of Hoosiers are ready to support the decriminalization of marijuana and oppose putting a same-sex marriage ban into the state Constitution, according to a new survey released today.

  December 13, 2012  

• MAUREEN HAYDEN: In the end, Bauer bows out without noise

  If you were standing in the Statehouse Thursday afternoon, you might have felt the earth shift.

  July 28, 2012  

• Bauer out, Lawson in as Indiana House Dems’ leader

  Indiana House Democrats have voted to replace Rep. Patrick Bauer as their leader amid criticism over how he’s handled campaign fundraising and spending heading into the November elections.

  July 26, 2012  

• Bauer: Dems should focus on election, not change

  House Minority Leader Pat Bauer says he believes Democrats will make a mistake if they try to oust him.

  July 25, 2012  

• Miller sworn in as Indiana state senator

  Indiana’s newest state senator didn’t have wait to long before his official duties kicked in.

  April 18, 2012  

• Settlement money set aside to help pay utility bills

  After Indiana received a cut of the 1998 multi-billion settlement from the tobacco industry intended to pay for public health initiatives, the state legislature tapped into the money to pay for a host of non-health related expenditures.
   

  March 23, 2012  

• Governor signs bill on residents resisting police

  Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill laying out when Indiana residents might be legally justified in using force against police officers. 

  March 21, 2012  

• Daniels inks smoking ban

  Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels called the exemption-filled smoking ban bill he signed into law Monday an example of the legislative process at its “finest,” but authors of the bill are vowing to snuff out the loopholes.
   

  March 20, 2012  

• Daniels signs conflict of interest bill

  Rodney Chamberlain has worked for his city’s parks department for two decades and has served on his city council for 12 years, but a new “conflict of interest” law will force him — and many more like him — to make a choice between public office and public employment.
   

  March 20, 2012  

• Indiana legislators approve smoking restrictions

  The Indiana Senate has narrowly approved a statewide smoking ban proposal, sending it to the governor for his expected signature into law.

  March 9, 2012  

• Indiana Legislature to wrap up short session

  With less than three weeks to go before the mandatory close of this legislative session, Indiana lawmakers are sending a flurry of bills to the governor for his signature.

  February 29, 2012  

• ‘Illegal entry’ legislation raises concerns

  Police and prosecutors fear a legislative response to a controversial court decision on resisting law enforcement will end up endangering officers and crime victims.
   

  February 24, 2012  

• Year after passage, attempts to change voucher law failing

  School choice advocates who ended the last legislative session with a bill that created the largest voucher program in the nation have been stymied this session in their efforts to expand the program’s scope.
   

  February 21, 2012  

• Plan to drug test Indiana welfare recipients stalls

  A bill to require drug testing for some Indiana welfare recipients has failed in a legislative committee after concerns were raised about the possible $1 million cost to start the program.

  February 15, 2012  

• Bill would ease college credit transfers

  Indiana college students worried about whether their credit hours will transfer to another university may get some relief if a proposed higher-education bill passes.
   

  February 14, 2012  

• Indiana joins right-to-work ranks, governor signs bill

  Indiana has become the first Rust Belt state to enact the contentious right-to-work labor law prohibiting labor contracts that require workers to pay union representation fees.

  February 1, 2012  

• Indiana Senate approves right-to-work bill

  Indiana’s Senate has passed right-to-work legislation, placing the state on the verge of becoming the Rust Belt’s first to enact the contentious labor law.

  February 1, 2012  

• Democrats skip Indiana Senate right-to-work hearing

  Democratic senators are boycotting an Indiana Senate hearing on the contentious right-to-work bill.

  January 30, 2012  

• Indiana legislators OK tougher sex-trafficking law

  A bill to toughen Indiana’s penalties for sex trafficking is on its way to Gov. Mitch Daniels for him to sign into law ahead of next weekend’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis.

  January 27, 2012  

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