Federal officials have dealt a blow to Gov. Mitch Daniels’ efforts to push more Hoosiers toward high-deductible, consumer-driven insurance plans that he says will reduce health care costs.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has added a portrait of Col. Richard Lieber, founder of Indiana’s state parks, to the Hoosier Heritage Gallery hung on the south wall of his office.
Indiana’s Healthy Rivers Initiative will host two November open houses for the public to ask questions about the state’s largest land conservation effort and learn about its progress.
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Monday named Megan Ornellas, the chief of staff at the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, to serve as the interim executive director for the Hoosier Lottery.
The executive director of the Hoosier Lottery has resigned amid accusations that the agency overspent on new offices and furniture as it moved from new downtown Indianapolis location to another.
Big increases in sales and income taxes pushed the state’s tax receipts higher than forecast last month and through the first quarter of this fiscal year.
State highway officials announced Friday that the Sherman Minton Bridge at New Albany – closed recently because of a crack in the steel – won’t need to be fully replaced.
Gate fees will be waived at Indiana’s state parks, reservoirs and forest properties Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Federal officials have once again denied Indiana’s request for financial assistance to help individuals and businesses in 11 counties hit hard last spring by flooding.
Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Thursday that one of his longest-serving cabinet members has left state government for a job in the private sector and will be replaced by a retired Eli Lilly & Co. executive.
The state has hired Witt Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based public safety and crisis management firm, to assist the Indiana State Fair Commission in its investigation of Saturday night’s stage collapse.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that state officials need to consider whether temporary structures – like the one that collapsed and killed five people Saturday at the Indiana State Fair – should be inspected by regulators.
Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, said he will propose a statewide smoking ban next session – for the sixth year in a row – and Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said he thinks the legislation has a chance to pass this time.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said he’s certain a Marion Superior Court judge will uphold the nation’s broadest state voucher law after a hearing Thursday, despite a challenge from the state’s largest teacher’s union.
Motorcyclists are invited to join Gov. Mitch Daniels and the American Bikers Aimed Toward Education of Indiana on Friday for an escorted ride throughout Indiana. The annual ABATE ride with the governor will begin with registration from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on the west side of the Indiana Statehouse. The ride will leave Indianapolis at 10 a.m. and end at the French Lick Resort in Southern Indiana.
A fact sheet produced by the Urban Institute shows that the number of Hoosiers who are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance – also known as food stamps – has increased by 39 percent from 2007 through 2010. That’s higher than the growth in Kentucky and Illinois but significantly lower than in Ohio and Michigan, where the economy has hit hard.
On its fifth anniversary, Gov. Mitch Daniels praised Indiana’s “Major Moves” transportation project for jumpstarting improvement on the state’s infrastructure.
Planned Parenthood’s 28 Indiana clinics will begin to receive Medicaid dollars again after a federal judge issued a ruling that blocks the implementation of a new state law.
Indiana is within its rights to stop funding from going to organizations such as Planned Parenthood that offer abortions, Thomas Fisher, the state’s solicitor general, argued in a court brief Friday.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s clinics closed their doors Wednesday and are turning their 9,300 Medicaid patients away all week due to a new state measure that blocks groups that offer abortions from receiving government dollars.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana will suffer another blow as a result of a new state law that blocks government dollars from going to organizations that perform abortions.
Members of Indiana’s deaf community braved the heat Tuesday outside the Indiana Statehouse to protest Gov. Mitch Daniels’ appointments to the board of the Indiana School for the Deaf.
The head of a national teachers’ union told protesters who rallied outside the Statehouse on Thursday that Gov. Mitch Daniels’ education reform agenda would “destabilize” Indiana’s schools.
President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but Obama’s potential presidential rival Gov. Mitch Daniels said he was too busy watching Ohio State beat Purdue, 87-64, to hear the president speak.
Indiana legislators on Wednesday answered Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call to overhaul the state’s education system during committee meetings in both the House and Senate.
A bill that would give a state panel, municipal leaders and private universities the authority to green-light new charter schools was the subject of a four-hour hearing in an Indiana House committee on Wednesday.
Indiana Chief of Justice Randall Shepard gave the State of the Judiciary Wednesday afternoon. Foreclosures, criminal sentencing reform, and technological advances were addressed. He said that the issues facing the courts are the same issues facing the other branches of government.
Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Friday that Indiana's application to the $4.35 billion Race to the Top federal grant program would soon be on its way to Washington.
Minority Leader Sen. Vi Simpson, D-Bloomington, said she is discouraged by the governor spending certain stimulus money without running it through the legislature as promised.
Gov. Mitch Daniels forged a fearless and resilient tone Tuesday night as he cautioned lawmakers of tough choices but framed those choices as opportunities to employ common-sense solutions to problems facing the state.
Though he became a honorary member of the Franklin Touchdown Club, Gov. Mitch Daniels refuses to say who he would root for in Franklin's victory versus Rose-Hulman
On the heels of a first term in which he saw the state's budget balanced and transportation funding increased, Republican incumbent Gov. Mitch Daniels is seeking re-election. Democratic nominee Jill Long Thompson and Libertarian challenger Andrew Horning are also looking to win.
Speaking separately the three candidates vying for governor spoke to a statewide radio audience Monday night. major issues included jobs, education and privatization.
