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Indiana unemployment rate drops in April
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s unemployment rate dropped in April to 8.5 percent but remains higher than the rate for the nation and Indiana’s neighboring states. The number is 0.2 percentage points lower than it was in March, which represents the largest one-month decrease in more than a year. Gov. Mike Pence [...]
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Customer agency urges 812 area code ‘overlay’ instead of geographic split
By Jesselyn Bickley TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A state agency that represents customers is recommending that a new area code in Southern Indiana be laid over the existing one, meaning the entire region will have two area codes instead of one. The lower third of Indiana has used the 812 area code since 1947, but officials [...]
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Video & story: Butler among schools making internships part of curriculum
A day in the life of a Butler University intern from TheStatehouseFile.com on Vimeo. By Samantha Pierson, Kori Steer and Jack Messer TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – About 80 percent of Butler students do some form of career related activities before they graduate. Read more: Colleges make hands-on learning opportunities part of curriculum They can be [...]
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Colleges make hands-on learning opportunities part of curriculum
By Samantha Pierson, Jack Messer and Kori Steer TheStatehouseFile.com Students at colleges in Indiana and across the nation are graduating this month with practical, professional experience that once was the exception rather than the rule. Read more… Video & story: Butler among schools making internships part of curriculum About 80 percent of Butler students do [...]
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State unlikely to act on fed’s push for lower alcohol levels for driving
By Jesselyn Bickley TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Federal officials are recommending that states reduce the amount of alcohol people can drink and still get behind the wheel. But a key state lawmaker says that’s not likely to happen in Indiana. The National Traffic Safety Board voted Tuesday on for a series of recommendations, including that states [...]
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Convenience stores sue to get cold beer sales
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Convenience stores are taking their fight to sell cold beer in Indiana to federal court. The Indiana Petroleum and Marketers and Convenience Store Association has sued the state to overturn a 1979 law that restricts cold beer sales only to liquor stores. The group’s executive director, Scot Imus, said [...]
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State graduation rate keeps increasing
Staff reporter TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s graduation rate inched up to 88.4 percent in 2012, the Department of Education announced Monday. The rate was 86.6 percent in 2011 and has been steadily increases. State Superintendent Glenda Ritz had no immediate comment on the new rate. The graduation rate is considered a “cohort” rate because [...]
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Pence signs gambling, speedway bills
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence signed bills Friday that will give tax breaks to casinos and finance improvements at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Pence had expressed concerns initially about both bills but the governor said in separate statements that the laws will be good for important Indiana businesses. The speedway bill [...]
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Pence signs voucher expansion bill into law
By Samm Quinn TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Thursday that will expand the state’s school voucher program in front of 150 students, including some who already are benefiting from the program. Students from seven different private vouchers schools met at the Calvary Christian School auditorium with signs that said, [...]
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Pence signs budget, tax-cut bill into law
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Hoosier workers will get income tax breaks in 2015 and 2017 under a $30 billion, two-year budget bill that Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Thursday. The bill reduces individual income tax rates by a total of 5 percent in two steps. It will save a household with [...]
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