Indiana Capital Chronicle
21Alive and the Indiana Capital Chronicle have teamed up to offer insight into state politics and news. Each week, reporters from the Chronicle will appear on 21Alive News to discuss their stories and offer insight into stories that affect all Hoosiers.
The non-profit digital newsroom is dedicated to covering news from the state legislature and other government branches.
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A pay raise for Indiana’s top elected officials will make the state’s next governor one of the highest-paid in the nation.
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Outrage from public school officials over dismal funding in the next two-year state budget prompted lawmakers to add a twelfth-hour K-12 spending boost in Indiana’s spending plan in a chaotic final day that yielded several so-called ‘final’ draft budgets.
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The state’s top elected officials would see a big pay raise under new salary language included in the latest budget proposal.
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The General Assembly will have another $1.5 billion under the latest forecast to incorporate in the two-year budget before session ends in just ten days.
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Funding for two large health priorities remains in flux but House Republicans gave senators a proposal on Tuesday: increase the cigarette tax.
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Just one in three of the Indiana Senate’s filed bills — about 160 of 489 total — survived do-or-die deadlines this week.
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Indiana Republicans passed their $43.3 billion budget proposal without any Democrat support, with the minority party denouncing the millions earmarked to expand school vouchers.
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A bill that would raise the speed limit for trucks on certain Indiana roadways advanced to the full Senate Tuesday despite opposition from the state’s largest truck drivers group.
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The non-compete agreements bar physicians who leave their jobs from working in similar positions within a certain timeframe, and often a geographical range.
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Attorney General Todd Rokita joined a multi-state lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), claiming a recent rule change infringes on Hoosiers’ gun rights.
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Indiana lawmakers went tough on crime Tuesday when a committee advanced a constitutional change restricting the right to bail and moved a less controversial bill barring people with more severe convictions from participating in community corrections programs.
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Indiana’s top Republican lawmakers say they’re holding off on new abortion legislation in the 2023 legislative session — at least for now.
