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One-time bonus — but no pay raise — for state employees
Dec 30, 2024 · Gov. Eric Holcomb is giving a one-time bonus to all state employees, but no pay raises this year after a modest revenue forecast. “It is important to recognize your efforts to improve the lives of Hoosiers but also in a way that our current state biennial budget, which ends June 20, 2025, will support,” he said in a letter sent to state employees Monday morning.
Outgoing Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb looks back on eight years in …
Jan 2, 2025 · Looking back on two terms in office, outgoing Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb doesn’t have regrets — or at least not many. The Republican statesman is just days away from bringing his eight years as governor to a close. He’ll officially hand the reins to Gov.-elect Mike Braun on January 13. In a ...
Breaking down the fiscal issues that will dominate 2025 legislative ...
3 days ago · Lawmakers will convene Wednesday to begin drafting the state’s next two-year budget, determining how to spend approximately $44 billion dollars to fund government services such as schools, health insurance programs and infrastructure as well as tackling other fiscal issues. A December revenue ...
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6 days ago · As ‘smart cities’ tools grow nationwide, so do privacy and ethical concerns BY: Paige Gross - January 1, 2025 After nearly a week of searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of an 81-year-old St. Helena, California woman this summer, police found and arrested a man with the help of license plate reading cameras that registered him near the scene.
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Dec 25, 2024 · 9. Supercharging county public health. Also last year, lawmakers spent big on public health. After a yearlong analysis from the Governor’s Public Health Commission found that Indiana spends a paltry average of $55 per resident annually, they authorized $225 million over two years in optional funding for counties.. Whitney reported that nearly all counties opted into the first year of funding ...
Lawmakers hint at road funding changes • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Dec 19, 2024 · It appears all funding options are on the table as budget heads and other lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Indiana General Assembly to boost transportation infrastructure investment at the state and local levels. The two-year panel — the Funding Indiana’s Roads for a Stronger, Safer Tomorrow ...
With one week (we think) left to go, here are some issues hanging …
Mar 4, 2024 · A Senate chamber vote is also expected Monday for House Bill 1001.The work-based learning proposal — which builds off a massive 2023 bill that put in motion statewide career-centered education and training programs — would expand career scholarships accounts (CSAs) for training and apprenticeships, rather than traditional college degrees. If passed, the bill still needs final approval from ...
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The Indiana Capital Chronicle is an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to giving Hoosiers a comprehensive look inside state government, policy and elections. More importantly, we will show how actions at the state level impact your everyday lives. Over the years the number of journalists covering state news has dwindled and The Capital Chronicle will bring more eyes to …
From tax credits to higher speed limits, lawmakers spent time …
Feb 8, 2024 · In between racing to shepherd hundreds of proposals through the legislative process ahead of bill-killing deadlines, lawmakers found time to hear hours of testimony on numerous controversial or novel ideas never intended to advance.
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