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Framing Hanley, a rock band from Nashville that recently reunited, will play a reduced-capacity show at the Hobart Art Theater next week.

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 children's hospitals. The Indiana House voted 93-0 on Thursday to advance Slager's 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 children's hospitals for treating Hoosier children to more closely match the significantly higher rates Medicaid pays Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis for the same...

Connor Burge, The Times State Rep. Julie Olthoff, R-Crown Point, is leading a Statehouse effort to reduce Hoosier smoking rates by seeking to increase Indiana’s cigarette tax by $1 per pack. Olthoff told the House Public Health Committee on Monday that 1 in 5 Indiana adults are smokers, along with 23% of high school students, and they’re disproportionately driving up health care costs and cancer rates in the state, while reducing worker productivity. "Our desire is to drive a new wave of smoking cessation and prevention, especially for our Indiana youth," Olthoff said. T...

"Coming off 2020, I'm convinced 2021 can be the best ever," said Gov. Eric Holcomb in his annual State of the State address.

February 2, 2021 States spend only about a fifth of their combined federal and state dollars under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant on basic assistance for families with children, our analysis of the latest data from fiscal year 2019 shows, and several states spend less than a tenth. States are using their considerable flexibility under TANF, the primary cash assistance program for families with the lowest incomes, to divert funds away from income support for families and toward other, often unrelated state budget areas, as they h...