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Marquiese McClendon’s nonprofit provides a creative outlet to Muncie youth and young adults
Eight-year-old Olivia Nethercutt soars when she can stand on a stage with a microphone in her hand, looking toward her dream ...
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Lawmakers explore new, expanded road funding options — include tolling, delivery tax
Indiana House Roads and Committee Chair Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie) proposed a bill Monday that provides a variety of new ...
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Advocacy groups gather in Muncie to hear about education bills at Statehouse
Several education bills in the Indiana legislature have some Hoosiers worried – including proposals for deregulation of school requirements and universal school vouchers.  As IPR’s Daniel Huber ...
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Committee endorses measure to raise base teacher pay, defeats bump to $65,000
A bill that would raise the floor for teacher pay in Indiana passed out of the Senate Education and Career Development ...
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Indiana attorney general sues St. Joseph County, saying jail not cooperating with ICE
Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sued St. Joseph County Friday, alleging its jail is breaking a new state law ...
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Health care facilities can’t hire people with certain felonies. Bill offers peer recovery exception
Health care facilities are barred from hiring employees who have been convicted of certain criminal offenses, including ...
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Indiana lawmakers aim to eliminate rape kit testing backlog
Indiana has at least 600 rape kits waiting to be tested at the state’s crime labs. And there are potentially many more in local law enforcement agencies, waiting to be sent to the labs. A House ...
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Parental permission social media minors bill passes full Senate — now heads to House
The Indiana Senate advanced a measure Thursday that would require children younger than 16 to get parental permission before ...
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Hospitals support Indiana Medicaid expansion funding changes. Braun administration raises concerns
A House committee approved a bill that would make several funding changes to Indiana’s Medicaid expansion program. House Bill ...
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Tech companies could share cost of small nuclear plant pilot program under bill passed by committee
Several bills that would make Hoosiers pay some of the cost of building small modular nuclear reactors are working their way ...
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Measure would require police to notify federal authorities about suspected undocumented immigrants
Indiana law enforcement would be required to send notice to federal immigration officials if they have probable cause to believe someone they arrested is an undocumented immigrant. That’s under a bill ...
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Senate committee seeks to ban diversity, equity and inclusion in state agencies, schools
Diversity, equity and inclusion — and a list of policies and beliefs tied to them — would be banned in state agencies, educational institutions and any organization that receives money from the state ...