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An environmental policy group has given low marks to Indiana-area legislators for their voting records during this legislative session on some of the bigger environmental bills.
Gridlock has paralyzed the U.S. Senate, derailing a critical bipartisan bill that would have kept Medicare premiums fair, stopped a 10.6 percent rate cut to physicians who treat Medicare patients, and made significant improvements to a program that 44 million Americans depend on.
Lafayette city council members learned more about a plan to put the water utility under local control, without the oversight of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
INDIANAPOLIS | Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson has scheduled a pair of stops in Northwest Indiana Friday to participate in the region's July 4 festivities.
The Republican candidate for congress in Indiana's eighth district thinks we should use more of our own oil to fight high gas prices. Greg Goode announced that he would join two other Republican candidates for Congress from Indiana in a fact-finding tour of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The United Way of Central Indiana is giving the local Red Cross chapter a $1.4 million boost, with most of that money going toward disaster-relief efforts.
INDIANAPOLIS - Northeast Indiana Democrats met in two Sunday caucuses to nominate area men for ballot vacancies in area Indiana House districts.
More than 10,000 Northwest Indiana residents will receive a phone call on behalf of Rep. Pete Visclosky this summer asking if they'll put up a yard sign for the 12-term congressman.
WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain has plenty of untapped wallets to mine when he arrives in Indianapolis on Tuesday for his first Indiana fundraiser as the presumptive GOP nominee for president.
Republican John McCain has plenty of untapped wallets to mine when he comes to Indianapolis tomorrow for his first Indiana fundraiser since both parties settled on their presidential nominees.
INDIANAPOLIS — When major party candidates for governor in Indiana announce the choice for their lieutenant governor running mates — or when word leaks out — it almost always makes a big splash in the media.
Thomas I. Atkins, a hard-driving champion of racial justice who rose from rural Indiana to become Boston's first black at-large city councilor and faced off against opponents of busing in the 1970s as an NAACP leader, has died at 69.
When it comes to respect from their constituents, state and national politicians fail miserably in Indiana, according to a poll released June 24 by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics in Fort Wayne.
My parents, old NAACP activists, live in front of CNN, and back in April I happened to be with them in Indianapolis the week before the Indiana primary, when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy returned to embarrass Senator Barack Obama's campaign.
Several states, including California, Indiana and New Jersey, already invest some pension money in funds designed to go to local bioscience or green ventures. And they are having success in supporting the local companies, advocates say.
The Supreme Court recently upheld an Indiana law requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls. Indiana is one of 27 states across the country doing this, seeming to signal a trend for states to set identification requirements to vote.
