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One-time bonus — but no pay raise — for state employees
2 天之前 · Gov. Eric Holcomb is giving a one-time bonus to all state employees, but no pay raises this year after a modest revenue forecast. “It is important to recognize your efforts to improve the lives of Hoosiers but also in a way that our current state biennial budget, which ends June 20, 2025, will support,” he said in a letter sent to state employees Monday morning.
Lawmakers seek road-funding changes, hope to avoid fiscal cliff
1 天前 · While education dominates half of Indiana’s budget and Medicaid costs worry lawmakers, a projected transportation infrastructure funding shortfall creeps closer. Motor fuel taxation yields eight of every 10 state dollars that fund roads and bridges for both the Indiana Department of Transportation ...
Schoolhouse Rock, Indiana edition: How a bill becomes a law
5 天之前 · A biennial budget of more than $40 billion is on the line come January, alongside hundreds of other proposals from Indiana lawmakers. Just a fraction become law. How do we get there? Some might call it organized chaos, but the legislative session has an established trajectory that begins with filing ...
Check out our top 10 stories of the year
2024年12月25日 · 9. Supercharging county public health. Also last year, lawmakers spent big on public health. After a yearlong analysis from the Governor’s Public Health Commission found that Indiana spends a paltry average of $55 per resident annually, they authorized $225 million over two years in optional funding for counties.. Whitney reported that nearly all counties opted into the first year of funding ...
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2024年12月20日 · The new Big Ten is resulting in sharply higher carbon emissions BY: Shaun Chornobroff - December 23, 2024 Carbon dioxide emissions from Big Ten football team travel for regular-season conference games more than tripled in 2024 compared to 2023 after the addition of a quartet of West Coast schools, a Capital News Service analysis found.
Lawmakers hint at road funding changes • Indiana Capital Chronicle
2024年12月19日 · It appears all funding options are on the table as budget heads and other lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Indiana General Assembly to boost transportation infrastructure investment at the state and local levels. The two-year panel — the Funding Indiana’s Roads for a Stronger, Safer Tomorrow ...
What to expect in the final hours before Indiana's first execution ...
2024年12月17日 · Barring a last-minute intervention by Indiana’s governor, death row inmate Joseph Corcoran will die in less than 24 hours, before sunrise Wednesday. The convicted murderer is currently being held at the Indiana State Prison, located in Michigan City. The execution will be the first in 15 years ...
With one week (we think) left to go, here are some issues hanging …
2024年3月4日 · A Senate chamber vote is also expected Monday for House Bill 1001.The work-based learning proposal — which builds off a massive 2023 bill that put in motion statewide career-centered education and training programs — would expand career scholarships accounts (CSAs) for training and apprenticeships, rather than traditional college degrees. If passed, the bill still needs final approval from ...
Indiana governor candidates discuss absenteeism, literacy, and …
2024年10月24日 · Braun: Invest in career scholarship programs, support extracurricular exploration, and reward schools for graduating students prepared to excel in their career, college, or the military.. Q: School attendance in Indiana is improving, but remains below pre-pandemic levels. Lawmakers have passed and proposed a variety of solutions to absenteeism, including meetings with families to identify ...