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Weekly Statehouse Update: Special Session For Redistricting, Libertarian Ballot Rule Lauren Chapman/IPB News Lawmakers debated a bill to prevent future government restrictions used during the pandemic. A committee made it harder for Libertarians to make it on the ballot. And the Senate is close to eliminating all protections for wetlands.  Here’s what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse. Rep. Bob Morris’s (R-Fort Wayne) legislation would ban state and local governments from limiting a business’s hours of operation or occupancy; regulating what procedures hospitals can do;...

The online Uplink system where Hoosiers must apply for unemployment benefits. (Justin Hicks/IPB News) A bill that attempts to crack down on unemployment insurance fraud passed an Indiana House committee, but some are worried it could instead penalize people making sincere mistakes on applications. House Bill 1152 would disqualify and create penalties for people who fail to disclose new income while getting benefits, or falsify a fact on an unemployment insurance application. Current laws penalize false material facts – that is, facts that most people understand would affect their eligibilit...

Indiana businesses and institutions are one step closer to being protected from COVID-19 lawsuits. A House committee passed the bill but some still worry the protections go too far.

By 1971, his efforts turned into his first book: “Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota.” Now an associate professor of English at Penn State, Thompson’s body of work recently added its sixth nonfiction book. Thompson will participate in the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series via Zoom at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 28 by reading from his newest publication “Fired On: Targeting Western American Art.” According to Alison Jaenicke, assistant teaching professor of English and assistant director of creative writing, The Rolling Reading Series is sponsored by English departm...

This story was co-published with ProPublica, an independent, non-profit news organization. When Hannah Watts received a reminder notice in the mail in January for the $701.56 she still owed for her childrens’ textbook fees from last year, she decided to use her tax refund to pay it off in the spring. But two months later, the coronavirus pandemic shut down Indiana. Watts is a dental assistant, and her hours at work were slashed. She had no choice but to use the refund to cover household expenses. Watts says she didn’t hear anything else about the bill until Aug. 7, when a notice app...