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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 regulations that protect about 800,000 acres of wetlands that aren’t connected to a lake or a stre...

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 regulations that protect about 800,000 acres of wetlands that aren’t connected to a lake or a stre...

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-controlled House, 58-40. The measure would permit property owners to drain or fill most isolated wetlands ...

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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 contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Al’s hospitalization. Noe, 66, ...