NEWS
Lottery sales lag . . .
Mega jackpots absent; instant ticket sales slow – not just us? Hoosier Lottery revenues face “challenges” from a lack of mega-draw game jackpots and a “softening” in the lottery’s traditional bread-and-butter product, scratch-off tickets, lottery staffers acknowledge at the [...]
Shave and a haircut – five percent
State Budget Agency directs new five percent spending holdbacks As U.S. House Republicans were figuring out how to respond to the White House rescissions package this week, seeking to maintain the spending prerogative of the legislative branch in the [...]
Fare game?
IndyGo proposes fare hike for the first time in 16 years IndyGo proposes a new fare policy, breaking a nearly 16-year-long streak of stable fees. If approved, rates would rise from $1.75 per trip to $2.75 per trip. All [...]
Big, beautiful tax increase
Fed’l endowment tax discussion worries some Indiana colleges The Trump Administration’s plan to heavily tax some private university endowments under the sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is largely crafted to target the elite schools, such as the Ivy [...]
Hopper half-full or half-empty?
No iGaming, some charity gaming, some tweaks, no tax hikes Following what was effectively a three-year interregnum in which gaming legislation was leges non grata thanks to an ongoing set of federal investigations which imprisoned three former legislators on [...]
Therapy session for Guv
Signs on in tough times, but how does the environment stack up? Some quasi-random thoughts to ponder about the first legislative session for the Braun Administration . . . Someone in the hallway with experience in 206 under a [...]
“Liberation Day” or doomsday?
Transpo tariff turmoil continues – how it affects the Hoosier State Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the April 18, 2025 issue of Indiana Transportation Insight. Hey, didn’t we just talk about tariffs? Yes, but . . [...]
No union with Union . . .
House GOP folds Union School Corp. dissolution into SB 1 Editor's note: This story was originally published in the April 11, 2025 issue of Indiana Education Insight. Deep within the 400 pages of the House Republican Caucus’ version of [...]
Tracking a Speedway casino
Could a Penske Rolling Stone casino at IMS qualify? Editor's note: This story was originally published in the April 4, 2025 issue of Indiana Gaming Insight. We’re racing closer to a casino in Indianapolis . . . and we [...]
A need to Elevate transparency
$25M in state money goes where? Audits, OIG probes pending Governor Mike Braun (R) on April 8 signed an executive order that will require increased transparency for non-profit foundations and corporations created to assist state government agencies. But we [...]