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March 16, 2012
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Four of the state's leading political journalists join Indiana Lawmakers host Jon Schwantes this week to wrap up the 2012 legislative session. Indiana Lawmakers political analyst Ed Feigenbaum, publisher of Indiana Legislative Insight; Lesley Weidenbener of the Franklin College Statehouse Bureau; Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette; and Eric Bradner of the Evansville Courier & Press bring their perspectives on who won, who lost, and what this year's legislation will mean to Hoosiers. From Right to Work to the smoking ban to taxation, the expert panel discusses it all on Indiana Lawmakers, from the Statehouse to your house.
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Indiana Lawmakers - Indiana General Assembly's 2012 Session - March 16, 2012  Four widely respected Statehouse journalists look back at the Indiana General Assembly's 2012 session, chronicling the session's key legislative battles. Who were this year's biggest winners and losers? Indiana Lawmakers - Caucus Leaders Discussion - March 9, 2012 Our caucus leaders discuss what 2012 legislation will leave a lasting impact; why they agree that this year's session developed in two parts - pre-Super Bowl and post-Super Bowl and did the Right to Work legislation touch all the other bills this year? Indiana Lawmakers - Taxes - March 2, 2012 This week our panelists weigh in on a number of tax-related conversations that have taken place at the Statehouse in recent months. What, if any, tax changes can we expect in the remaining weeks of the 2012 session? Indiana Lawmakers - Smoking Ban Legislation - February 24, 2012 This week our expert panelists go head to head in an animated discussion of the proposed smoking ban measure currently moving through the General Assembly, and the controversial exemptions. Indiana Lawmakers - Mass Transit Legislation - February 17, 2011 Indiana Lawmakers with Jon Schwantes, discusses why Mass Transit legislation proposed in this session of the General Assembly failed. Perhaps more importantly, what happens next?
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In January, 1981, a series of short field reports began an examination of the issues and agendas before the state legislature. Thirty years later, Indiana's decision makers are still appearing on Indiana Lawmakers. Journalist Jon Schwantes will guide the discussion between Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, the governor, state senators, state house members, lobbyists and pundits in his 16th year as the show's host.
Major funding for the 2012 season of Indiana Lawmakers is being underwritten by Purdue Research Park.
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Jon Schwantes, a panelist on Indiana Public Television’s weekly, political round-table series Indiana Week in Review, will serve as studio host and moderator for Indiana Lawmakers. During each weekly installment of Indiana Lawmakers, Schwantes will expand on timely topics by moderating in-studio roundtable discussions while publisher Ed Feigenbaum will offer viewers an insider’s commentary.
Ed Feigenbaum manages INGroup, a Noblesville-based firm that offers various key information resources related to Indiana state politics and government. He earned both a degree in law and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, and has served as Director of Legal Affairs for the Council of State Governments, and as Director of Marketing and in-house counsel for the Hudson Institute. Since 1989, he has published Indiana Legislative Insight, a widely read and respected weekly insider's newsletter that explains what's happening and why in Indiana politics and government.
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