NEWS
Half a loaf at halfway point
Win down over the year despite TH addition, HP renovation Until the pandemic hit in 2020, we had traditionally brought you a July deep dive into the mid-year casino numbers, detailing how things had progressed through the first half [...]
Will we ever (I)LEARN?
Test scores sit stagnant; what’s ahead to up student progress Different year, but essentially the same story. Indiana’s latest ILEARN results show student progress is stagnating – not sharply increasing or decreasing in the last few years, which likely [...]
Parties face the Harris Poll
Big difference in optics as Ds pitch to a new generation Hoosier Democrats quickly rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris (D) as their presidential candidate-in-waiting. Indiana’s entire Democratic National Convention delegation – comprised of 88 delegates – votes unanimously [...]
A tale of two transit services
Examining what’s to come from IndyGo and South Shore DT In a sprawling metropolis, mass transit is a hot topic of conversation. In recent years, Indianapolis has invested more than ever in bike share programs, IndyGo’s bus rapid transit, [...]
Sean sung blue
Ex-Rep. Eberhart gets year+ prison; $85K+ in fines/restitution Former Rep. Sean Eberhart (R) of Shelbyville, once the top Republican on the House Committee on Public Policy, where he helped shape gaming laws, is sentenced to one year and one [...]
Chamber+ take paper to PENN
Business world: tax add-back ruling anticompetitive for Indiana We’ve been following for you the saga of PENN Entm’t, Inc. v. Indiana Dep’t of State Revenue, No. 22T-TA-00015, the Indiana Tax Court tax add-back case. After the parties were unable [...]
A super shortage?
Looking into why retired superintendents return to work In the last several months, we noticed a few recently retired school superintendents return to work full-time at different schools, begging the question – is this new and why are these [...]
Corridor conversations
Mid-States Corridor to Tier 2 study amid continued local discourse It’s hard to know what to make of the Mid-States Corridor, a much-discussed “improved highway connection” project that will begin at S.R. 66 near the William H. Natcher Bridge [...]
GOP holy war
Unprecedented convo rebuke to top pick marries Braun, Beckwith The fall race has now been defined – but only between Republicans and Democrats. Much of the next few months will be spent figuring out who wins the internecine Republican [...]
New big-buck online poker bust
School ass’t principal helped run multi-million $ Central IN club A three-year investigation sparked by a complaint to the Indiana Gaming Commission from someone who claimed to have lost $50,000 in an online poker club culminates in multiple felony [...]