Indiana Legislative Insight

Fort Wayne native Nathan Gotsch (I) hopes to shake things up with his independent candidacy in CD 03. You may recall his work with the Fort Wayne Observed blog that helped to derail the Kelty 2007 Fort Wayne mayoral [...]

U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R) is in the field with a volunteer-run poll asking four questions: approval/disapproval of Sen. Young and President Joe Biden (D); the top issue of salience to Hoosiers (choices: education, crime, immigration, the economy, health [...]

U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R) talks with WPTA-TV ABC21 in Fort Wayne about the January 6 committee, and contends that Americans are “by and large tuning it out,” despite the station offering evidence to the contrary about viewership. “The [...]

In The Bail Project, Inc. v. Indiana Dept of Ins., No. 1:22-cv00862-JPH-MJD, Judge James P. Hanlon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on June 29 denies a motion of a preliminary injunction filed by [...]

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of San Diego is awarded a $248,225,000 modification to a Naval Air Systems Command contract to procure two additional low-rate initial production Lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems for the Navy. Indianapolis will be [...]

Fred Payne is stepping down from his post as commissioner of the Department of Workforce Development on July 8 after more than four years to become the next president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Central [...]

Effective July 1, ITR Concessions Co. LLC, the operator for the Indiana Toll Road lease, is raising tolls for travel on I-90 from the Ohio state line to the Chicago Skyway from $12.30 to $13.50 for a typical two-axle [...]

There’s an interesting new study authored by a trio of Stanford University researchers on “Polarization and State Legislative Elections” that should start you thinking – or confirm your suspicions. Here’s the abstract, complete with the spoiler: U.S. state legislatures [...]

Something to watch locally: the Brennan Center for Justice issues a new report, Financing of Races for Offices that Oversee Elections: May 2022 that finds “Candidates who push election denial are winning primaries and leading fundraising in races for [...]

Indiana earns some international props for its logistics networks when Indianapolis International Airport was the destination for a U.S. military flight conveying 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula manufactured in Switzerland from Ramstein [...]