NEWS
MGT Consulting Group to continue overseeing Gary schools
Gary Community Schools will continue to be managed by MGT Consulting Group after the state board charged with overseeing the Gary school district votes May 26 to extend its management contract with MGT. You’ll remember that the legislature assumed [...]
Report finds candidates who push election denial are winning primaries
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 [...]
Indianapolis International Airport site of baby formula shipment
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 [...]
Plans for Illinois casino still a go
A state court judge in Illinois denied a request for a temporary restraining order sought by a neighboring property owner that would have blocked the City of Danville, Illinois, from issuing building permits for the construction of the planned [...]
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians again partner with country club for Four Winds Invitational
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its casinos, including Four Winds Casino South Bend, again partner with South Bend Country Club for the11th edition of the Four Winds Invitational. The 2022 event will be held in South Bend [...]
Ertel transitions to Gov’s workforce cabinet
Whitney Ertel will serve as the new executive director of the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet effective May 31. Most recently Ertel served as the chief business officer and chief communications officer for the Department of Workforce Development where she helped [...]
Ag land values jump 23% in last year
Agricultural land values for the five-state Seventh Federal Reserve District to which Indiana belongs jump by almost one quarter (23) percent in the first quarter of 2022 from the prior year quarter, continuing the recent streak of sharp year-over-year [...]
EPCSC board raises bus drivers’ pay
The Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation Board of Education votes to increase its bus drivers’ pay, raising rates to $100 per route, amid the national bus driver shortage. The increase will go into effect starting next school year. Additionally, [...]
Childcare providers participate in ‘A Day Without Child Care’
Several childcare providers in Indianapolis shut their doors on Monday, May 9, as part of “A Day Without Child Care: National Day of Action,” as “educators and advocates demand policymakers invest in the child care system to provide racial [...]
Indiana signs another consent decree over Lake Michigan pollution
Yet another consent decree is signed by an Indiana steel manufacturer over Lake Michigan pollution. Cleveland Cliffs, owner of the Burns Harbor steel mill, enters into a deal t0 settle charges over an August 2019 discharge of cyanide and [...]