by Madelyn Hanes, Indiana Capital Chronicle May 21, 2025 Low-to-moderate income Hoosiers can now apply to the Indiana Energy Saver Program to save money and make their home more energy efficient. The Indiana Office of Energy Development launched the $182 million federally funded program last week, aimed at reducing utility costs, improving home comfort and…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Aleksandra Appleton, Chalkbeat May 16, 2025 at 2:39pm EDT Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and s tatewide education news. For years, Indiana lawmakers tried but failed to…
by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital ChronicleMay 13, 2025 Fraudulent messages purportedly sent by state agencies about collecting tolls are “scams,” the Indiana Office of Technology confirmed Tuesday. The office cautioned Hoosiers to “not click on any of the links,” noting that Indiana “does not send unpaid toll notifications via text or email messages.” “A…
by Niki Kelly, Indiana Capital ChronicleMay 12, 2025 Hoosier voters will soon be receiving postcards in the mail from the Secretary of State’s Election Division as part of statewide voter registration list maintenance. A news release issued Monday said the goal is to identify outdated, duplicate, and inaccurate voter registrations to improve the accuracy and…
by Lisa Wilken, Indiana Capital Chronicle April 30, 2025 With the 2025 budget session now in the rear-view mirror, Hoosier veterans are taking note not only of what passed and what didn’t, but how it all unfolded. This session brought minimal progress for Indiana’s veterans. Some long overdue improvements made it through, but far too…
by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Casey Smith and Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital ChronicleApril 28, 2025 Controversial language targeting homeless Hoosiers, regulating marijuana-like products and cracking down on illicit massage parlors perished late Thursday — even as Indiana lawmakers crammed changes to a new property tax reform package into an unrelated agency bill to end the session….
by Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital ChronicleApril 23, 2025 Republican lawmakers in the Senate and the House appear to have reached a final budget compromise, as detailed in a late Wednesday afternoon press conference with Gov. Mike Braun. A dismal forecast last week projecting a $2 billion shortfall — with an additional $400 million less available…
by Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital ChronicleApril 22, 2025 A Monday budget conference committee revealed little new information about ongoing negotiations between Republican caucuses, though a bicameral, bipartisan group heard roughly half an hour of public testimony. Sen. Ryan Mishler, the chief budget architect for Senate Republicans, squashed any requests for increased funding prior to public…
by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital ChronicleApril 21, 2025 Indiana lawmakers have just a week to close a staggering $2 billion hole in the state’s next two-year spending plan — plus, bridge disagreements over publicly funded vouchers to private schools, regulations on marijuana-like products and school board elections. The General Assembly aims to finish its…
Gov. Mike Braun has signed the contentious Senate Bill 1 into law. This legislation was neither as good nor as bad, as anyone claims. That is how legislative compromise works. But there are some hidden, and probably unanticipated, economic consequences. SB 1 cut residential property taxes. About two-thirds of Hoosier families will see cuts of…
