During my entire life as a resident of South Bend and my years working and serving within St. Joseph County, I have never felt as optimistic as I do now about our future. This year's state budget, passed by the General Assembly and signed by [...]
Word Count: 844 We are likely to hear a lot of noise in the 2022 legislative session about cultural war issues like critical race theory (even though legislators regularly explain it wrong), making school board elections partisan, copycat abortion vigilante legislation from Texas, anti-vaccine rhetoric, [...]
INDIANAPOLIS- The State Budget Committee heard testimony today that the state's revenue is an unprecedented $3.3 billion above forecasts for the current budget cycle. The state will have reserves of $5.1 billion for this fiscal year and $4.1 billion in the next fiscal year. Senator [...]
INDIANAPOLIS - On Tuesday, Governor Holcomb and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation announced this year’s winners of Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative grants. The South Bend-Elkhart community was one of five regions awarded the maximum amount of $50 million. State Senator David Niezgodski (D-South [...]
INDIANAPOLIS- Indiana has seen a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, reaching numbers that we haven’t seen in nearly a year. Concurrently, Statehouse Republicans announced their priority legislation that would directly oppose the wishes of businesses and healthcare leaders, even as [...]
“Repayment Notice”: You must repay the several thousand dollars that you received from IN Unemployment Insurance (UI) during COVID. How would you like to receive THAT notice in the mail? Well, thousands of Hoosiers have and are struggling to figure out how and why they [...]
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