by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 16, 2025 Beginning Jan. 1, more than half a million low-income Indiana residents won’t be able to use government food assistance to buy sugary drinks or candy. And state officials are preparing retailers and participants for the changes. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is the nation’s…
by Jon Tronc, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 15, 2025 As a teacher, I can explain how to balance a chemical equation or calculate the speed of a satellite in orbit, but school finance is far less straightforward. What I do know is that Indiana schools rely on two main funds, the education fund and the operations…
by Tom Davies and Casey Smith, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 11, 2025 The Republican-dominated Indiana Senate spurned months of demands from President Donald Trump as it voted 31-19 on Thursday to reject a redrawing of the state’s congressional maps. The final outcome remained uncertain until 21 Republicans joined all 10 Democratic senators in blocking the redistricting…
by Casey Smith and Tom Davies, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 10, 2025 A congressional redistricting proposal that has split Indiana’s Senate Republicans advanced to its final stage Wednesday after lawmakers quickly dispatched three Democratic amendments and positioned the high-stakes bill for a decisive vote on Thursday. But it remains unclear whether the Senate GOP caucus has…
I have been reluctant to write about the redistricting debate in Indiana. After all, there is no original sin to gerrymandering and the economic effects are generally well into the future. But this Indiana General Assembly session offers a rich environment in which to judge the people involved. Originally, redistricting was supposed to have captured…
by Niki Kelly, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 8, 2025 The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has closed the bobcat trapping season after reaching the statewide quota of 250 bobcats in just four weeks. The season was scheduled to run from Nov. 8 to Jan. 31, or until the quota of bobcats was reached. A DNR news…
by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle December 2, 2025 The author of Indiana’s new congressional redistricting bill acknowledged the maps are “politically gerrymandered” during committee questioning Tuesday but defended the proposal against accusations of illegal racial gerrymandering. The maps, released Monday morning, were drawn “purely for political performance” of Republicans, Rep. Ben Smaltz told…
by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital ChronicleDecember 1, 2025 Indiana House Republicans released Monday a proposed redrawing of the state’s congressional maps aimed at producing a 9-0 Republican U.S. House delegation. The proposed map splits strongly Democratic Indianapolis among four districts that all stretch far into rural, heavily Republican counties. The map obliterates the current 7th…
If you lived in Indiana as late as 1990, you have met, spoken with or smiled at a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. After all, only a half-century earlier, 1 in 3 Protestant Hoosier men were members. These former Klansmen could’ve been the kindly old man shaking your hand as you entered church…
The Greater Jasper Consolidated School Corporation recently sent out a message regarding its resources and stance on reports of bullying within its schools. It is important to note that the school corporation maintains a tipline for reporting incidents of bullying, and a link to the resource is below. Here is the message. Dear Parents and…
