NEWS
Noel contendere
GOP political heavyweight pleads guilty to 27 felonies, but . . . At a Monday plea change hearing, former Clark County sheriff Jamey Noel (R) pleads guilty to 27 felony charges under a plea negotiation which would see four [...]
Indy greenlights Vision Zero
The “landmark ordinance” seeks to eliminate traffic fatalities The Indy Pedestrian Safety Crisis group on August 20 labeled the past 10 days as the worst week-and-a-half in years for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities. Seven people either sustained [...]
Rising Sun sets for New Haven?
Full House lays groundwork for casino move; a positive reception to date When we last left you, we were intrigued by a cryptic comment from Full House Resorts, Inc. President and CEO Dan Lee in his company’s second quarter [...]
Light ahead for CSAs
State career scholarships near capacity after slow, chaotic Year 1 When Indiana launched its new Career Scholarship Accounts program last year, state officials expected a flood of eager students . . . but in that first year, only around [...]
The legend of Indiana’s I-69
Decades in the making, I-69 EVL-IND reaches the Finish Line Down a stretch of road on 2200 West Epler Avenue, a 1974 Indianapolis 500 pace car adorned with large U.S. and Indiana flags approaches a throng of reporters and [...]
Victory for IRTL Victory Fun
Corporations may contribute to independent expenditure PACs In a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenge to Indiana campaign-finance restrictions that prohibit corporations from making contributions to independent-expenditure political action committees (commonly known as super PACs), a U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Veni, Vidi, no VICI for CZR
VICI nixes $2B Centaur property options well before year-end deadline Following a lengthy courtship process that appeared a bit awkward at times, VICI Properties formally reveals that it will not seek to exercise its real estate purchase option on [...]
Literacy changes on the right track?
IREAD-3 scores biggest jump in test history; more work ahead Is Indiana on the way to its own “Mississippi Miracle,” in terms of increasing reading proficiency in young students? An “Indiana Miracle (?)” if you will. Results from the [...]
Fore! Hoosier ‘golf cart cities’
Goshen latest to join “wild, wild Midwest” of street-legal golf carts\ In the sequel to the classic sci-fi film Back to the Future, protagonist Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 2015. The film encapsulates 1985’s vision of futuristic transportation [...]
INdifference from 1988, 2004
Coming to terms with end of terms – we portend a change in change We’ve reached a delicate point not only in the Holcomb Administration but in the general life cycle of state government. We’re not only approaching the [...]