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Indiana’s General Assembly recently illustrated what’s become an unfortunate and all-too-frequent political maxim: When money talks, good public policy walks. In this case the money, about $390,000 spread across the General Assembly since 2017, according to the Indianapolis Star, comes from the Indiana Builders Association. The result is Senate Bill 389, and it is bad public policy. I hope Gov. Eric Holcomb will veto the bill. Its first, horrible iteration was a full repeal of the reg...

Indiana’s General Assembly recently illustrated what’s become an unfortunate and all-too-frequent political maxim: When money talks, good public policy walks. In this case the money, about $390,000 spread across the General Assembly since 2017, according to the Indianapolis Star, comes from the Indiana Builders Association. The result is Senate Bill 389, and it is bad public policy. I hope Gov. Eric Holcomb will veto the bill. Its first, horrible iteration was a full repeal of the reg...

A plan to preserve Indiana’s wetlands regulations, carefully crafted over several weeks by state Rep. Hal Slager, R-Schererville, was undone by his colleagues in just 48 hours, and nearly all state-regulated wetlands soon may be eligible for elimination by home builders and farmers. The Republican-controlled Senate voted 31-19 Wednesday to advance Senate Enrolled Act 389 to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, after it was significantly revised Monday and approved Tuesday by the Republican-contro...

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“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she cont...

State Rep. Hal Slager, R-Schererville, may some day deserve to be recognized as the man who saved Indiana’s wetlands. Slager won unanimous approval by the House Environmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday for his plan to revise Indiana’s wetland regulations in response to specific issues raised by Hoosier farmers and home builders, instead of trashing the regulations altogether as proposed by Senate Bill 389. “Rather than trying to take a meat cleaver to this, we were a little m...

“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she cont...

In all, 316 legislative proposals have made it to the second half of the session out of the 1,031 measures introduced back in January. Items that passed the House now

State Rep. Hal Slager, R-Schererville, is halfway toward his goal of ensuring Northwest Indiana children covered by Medicaid never are turned away from nearby Chicago childrens hospitals. The Indiana House voted 93-0 on Thursday to advance Slagers House Bill 1305 to the Senate for a decision on sending it to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb to be signed into law. It increases the rates Indiana Medicaid pays to out-of-state childrens hospitals for treating Hoosier children to more closely match the ...

Two measures establishing a new magistrate at Lake Superior Court 4 in the Hammond courthouse each won unanimous approval Wednesday by separate committees in the Indiana House and Senate.