February 19, 2024
Federal program helps low-, moderate-income Hoosiers with tax preparation
How can low- to moderate-income Hoosier taxpayers receive assistance in filing their taxes? Several members of our audience inspired this question. The Internal Revenue Services Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program includes sites nationwide with certified tax preparers to assist in filing taxes.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2024
Indiana National Guard Texas deployment to cost $7 million
The Indiana National Guard expects to spend about $7.1 million deploying 50 soldiers to the U.S-Mexico border at Texas for up to 10 months.
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2024
Lawmakers want to move leftover funds from one scholarship to the Transition to Teaching program
A Senate committee passed a bill this week that would fund additional scholarships for school employees with non-teaching degrees. Lawmakers hope the expansion will encourage more people to transition to teaching from other careers.
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2024
Former President Trump faces ballot challenge in Indiana
Former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on Indiana’s primary ballot has been challenged.
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2024
Report: Heat, pollution and wildfires expected to make Indiana's air quality worse in 2054
Most of Indiana is expected to experience one to seven more days of poor air quality in 2054. That's according to a new report by the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit risk mitigation research group.
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2024
Weekly Statehouse Update: Mandates and restrictions in active shooter drills, local dog sale bans
Republicans advance a bill eliminating local bans on selling dogs at pet stores. A Senate committee approves legislation requiring schools to develop armed intruder drills. And grassroots substance use recovery groups would get more funding opportunities under a bill heading to the Senate floor. Here's what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2024
“That’s political blackmail” Professors push back on state bill aimed at tenure reform, increasing intellectual diversity on campus
Professors and Indiana University officials are among those who have come out against a bill, SB 202, that its author said aims to increase intellectual diversity on campus and reform tenure.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2024
Indiana Supreme Court pauses order that put John Rust onto GOP primary ballot for U.S. Senate
It's looking more likely that the Indiana Supreme Court won't allow southern Indiana egg farmer John Rust to be on the Republican primary ballot for U.S. Senate.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2024
What roles do the Senate president pro tempore, speaker of the House play in Indiana?
What role does the Indiana Senate president pro tempore serve? It's a question a member of our audience recently asked.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2024
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
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