by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle March 12, 2026 Gov. Mike Braun on Thursday endorsed establishing student chapters of the conservative group Turning Point USA at all Indiana schools in starkly political terms, even while saying he wanted to protect free speech rights for all. Braun joined Turning Point organizers and about a dozen young…
I have never cared for daylight saving time, and the longer I live with it the less sense it makes. I can manage being in the Eastern Time Zone, even though much of Indiana naturally fits closer to Central Time. But when daylight saving time is added on top of that, the clock drifts even…
IU football coach Curt Cignetti honored with Indiana’s Sachem Award by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle March 4, 2026 Indiana University football Coach Curt Cignetti now has the state’s top honor from the governor to go along with the national championship the Hoosiers won a couple months ago. Gov. Mike Braun presented the 2026 Sachem…
AES owns the Crossvine Solar project located south of Huntingburg. by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle March 2, 2026 AES, the parent company of AES Indiana, announced on Monday that it has agreed to be purchased for more than $33 billion by a group of large domestic and foreign investors — and could go…
by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle February 24, 2026 Indiana legislators are looking to give themselves more say over big-ticket highway projects at a time when a proposal in Gov. Mike Braun’s hometown is facing significant local opposition. A provision added last week to the bill focused on attracting the new Chicago Bears stadium to…
by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle February 23, 2026 Indiana’s shortened legislative session is barreling into its final week, with several significant issues unresolved ahead of Friday’s expected adjournment. Republican legislative leaders cut two weeks from this year’s session calendar to make up for the time lawmakers spent in December on the congressional redistricting debate….
by Niki Kelly, Indiana Capital Chronicle February 19, 2026 Indiana legislators added some details Thursday on their outline for how a Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority would partner with the Chicago Bears on a possible multi-billion dollar stadium project in Hammond. Here are questions and answers about the plan in Senate Bill 27: How much money…
Below is a data-driven op-ed from Dr. Addie Angelov urging lawmakers to finish social media legislation this session. It foregrounds peer-reviewed research, national surveillance data, and Indiana-specific law enforcement statistics, and it explicitly acknowledges that the first version will not be perfect. In my role as an independent researcher with federally approved access to highly…
by Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle February 17, 2026 Legislators might have coalesced around a plan for consolidating perhaps hundreds of Indiana’s 1,000+ township governments. An Indiana House committee on Tuesday endorsed a melding of differing Senate and House bills that supporters said will improve local government efficiency. The new version of Senate Bill 270…
by Linda Hanson, Indiana Capital Chronicle February 16, 2026 Voter turnout in Indiana has been problematic for years. It hit rock bottom in 2014. In 2022, we ranked 50th, and in 2024, we improved to 41st nationally – but still well below national averages for voter turnout. Our ranking for voter registration is consistently in…
