Feb 17, 2021 / 04:23 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) News 8’s David Williams reports lawmakers in the Indiana House have voted to override a 2020 veto by Gov. Eric Holcomb, making the measure into law.
Senate Bill 148 from the 2020 General Assembly would prevent individual cities from taking action on landlord and tenant matters, including expedited evictions and regulating rental properties.
In 2020, the state Senate voted 29-19 in favor of a House-Senate agreement on the bill, which the House later approved 64-32, before the legislative session adjourned March 12. Both the House and Senate had Republican supermajorities, both in 2020 and again in 2021. The Republican governor vetoed the measure on March 25, citing the emerging coronavirus pandemic as one concern.
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Feb 26, 2021 / 09:08 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) This time last year, News 8 met Tyler Hoeppner. In between checking patient vitals and digging through doctors’ notes, the sports journalist turned nurse shared his story of taking on a new career.
Now, he’s sharing a different story what it’s like to be a front-line worker taking on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoeppner with the rest of the doctors, nurses and IU Health Methodist Hospital staff was thrown into something unlike anything he’d ever seen before.
“Learning how to treat this thing? Nobody knew,” he said. “At the very beginning, it was like, if this is how it’s going to go, it’s going to be brutal because the amount of things we were doing at the pace we were doing them was just unheard of. The number of people we intubated on a shift…you just didn’t do.”
The pandemic put a stop to a lot of things, but it did not halt the creation, installation, and celebratory unveiling of a giant mural at Indianapolis International Airport (IND) honoring the life and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made Black female millionaire in the United States.
The artwork is hard to miss. Titled
Entrepreneurs Awakening: The Making of a Legacy, the mural is 11ft high and more than 75ft long. It was created by Indianapolis-based artist Tasha Beckwith and depicts how Sarah Breedlove became the wealthy, influential, and community-minded Madam Walker, whose Indianapolis-based Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company produced and marketed the line of Black hair care products she invented in the early 1900s.