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INDIANAPOLIS â Rep. Denny Zent of Angola was one of 19 who signed a letter penned by Seymour Rep. Jim Lucas, demanding Gov. Eric Holcomb intervene in Indiana Universityâs decision to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall. A letter dated Tuesday to Holcomb calls on him to prohibit any state university from mandating vaccines that donât have full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. The letter follows IUâs announcement on Friday that COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for the fall semester on all of its campuses, the Associated Press reported âEnforcing ...
Local health officers across the Hoosier State have lost their independent authority to impose emergency disease prevention measures on individuals and businesses that are more stringent than state rules. On Monday, the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate voted 36-10, and the Republican-controlled House 59-30, to put Senate Enrolled Act 5 into effect immediately, notwithstanding Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb's May 4 veto of the proposal. The new law mandates the local governing body overseeing a county or city health officer approve any health order whose provisions go beyond state requiremen...
âIâll see you in heaven.â 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. Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization. Noe, 66, ...
Wetlands safeguards would be win Larry Clemens 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 repeal of regulations that protect about 800,000 acres of wetlands not connected to a...