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Analysis: Pence makes good on promise to oppose new regulations
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence vetoed his first bills this week and it turns out the moves should have been fairly predictable. He was looking for less regulation of occupational licenses – not more. Pence axed bills that would have created licenses for diabetes educators, anesthesiologist assistants and dietitians. One of [...]
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Analysis: Lawmakers, state ed board may have rocky road ahead
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – There’s been significant speculation about how Democrat Glenda Ritz – the state superintendent elected last November – would get along with the Republican governor and majorities in the General Assembly. But the more interesting relationship is between those GOP officials and members of the State Board of Education. That [...]
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Video & analysis: This session showed a kinder, gentler legislature
Indiana lawmakers say the 2013 session had better tone from TheStatehouseFile.com on Vimeo. By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – In the last hours before adjournment – as tired lawmakers debated a budget and voucher expansion and a controversial utility measure – it might be easy to assume that this had been just another in a [...]
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Analysis: Student-athletes deserve attention, not sponsor
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Congratulations are in order for four young men who last month won the Arthur L. Trester Mental Attitude Award at the state high school basketball finals. Michael Lynch of Borden High School, Austin Karazsia of Linton-Stockton High, Thomas Starks of Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran, and Michael Volovic of Carmel [...]
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Analysis: Pence, Bosma moving farther apart on tax cuts
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A month or so ago, it seemed Republican Gov. Mike Pence would have a tough time convincing the GOP-controlled General Assembly to pass his proposed 10 percent income tax cut into law. Now, it just feels like an impossibility. Pence and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, are far apart [...]
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Analysis: Casino bill could be negotiating tool for Pence
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Republican Gov. Mike Pence has set up an interesting face-off with lawmakers over gambling legislation that could make for a negotiating tool as the session draws to a close next month. Pence said this week that he opposes proposals to expand gambling by letting riverboat operations rebuild on land [...]
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Analysis: Indiana eased into its dependence on gambling revenue
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – When lawmakers first headed down the path of state-authorized gambling in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they seemed cognizant that the tax revenues that would follow were a lucrative and yet unstable source of revenue. The state didn’t establish the Hoosier Lottery to directly benefit education, as many [...]
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Analysis: Pence argues state can’t fall behind in economic development race
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence last week made his best argument yet for cutting Indiana’s income taxes by 10 percent. He was talking to reporters in a somewhat unusual on-the-record but no-recorders-allowed conversation about his legislative agenda, saying the state is in the enviable position of having the cash to afford [...]
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Analysis: Pence’s specific legislative agenda remains murky
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Scott Pelath was mostly having fun. I’m convinced of it. The House minority leader – a Democrat from Michigan City – gathered reporters in his office on Friday to criticize Republican leaders for failing to do enough to create jobs now. But he was smiling even as he did [...]
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Analysis: Past battles over drunk driving levels are likely to be repeated
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – National traffic safety officials are urging states to reduce the amount that folks can drink before getting behind the wheel – but don’t look to Indiana lawmakers to get behind the idea anytime soon. I remember when Indiana was one of the few remaining states with a legal blood [...]