The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) will be joined by the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) and the Executive Board of the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation (ITPC) to ask the Indiana House of Representatives to support Governor Daniels’ proposed 25 cent cigarette tax increase. The meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18, […]

Last Wednesday I posted about dueling bills in the statehouse providing for consolidation of Evansville and Vanderburgh County. The community group leading the charge for consolidation – a group on whose board I serve – has officially endorsed House Bill 1344, filed by Rep. Phil Hinkle, R-Indianapolis, over House Bill 1394, filed by Rep. Dennis […]

My friend Zach Wendling has a slew of good Indiana posts at In the Agora. Here he writes on the governor’s State of the State Address. Here he writes on cigarette taxes. Here he writes on the Indiana GOP’s new leader.

The NK Hurst Bean Company has filed court papers challenging the state’s authority to take its property for new stadium and convention center parking. In the documents filed late Friday in Marion County Superior Court, NK Hurst’s primary argument is that the taking violates Indiana’s eminent domain laws because the property would be used to […]

The Indianapolis Star reports the following: Indiana University President Adam Herbert told trustees today that he will quit when his contract runs out in 2008, a move that signals his surrender in a long battle with Bloomington faculty members, IU alumni, state leaders and other critics who have questioned whether Herbert was up to the […]

Indiana Republicans have a new man at the helm. Former State Senator Murray Clark will take over to replace outgoing chairman Jim Kittle. In an afternoon press conference, Kittle said he was leaving the party in the best it has been, citing Republican control of the Governor’s office and the legislature. Clark says his priorities […]

Although they won’t make an official announcement until this afternoon, I hear the two likely candidates to replace Jim Kittle as head of the Indiana GOP are Mark Lubbers, aide to Governor Mitch Daniels and former State Senator Murray Clark of Indianapolis, who also ran for Lt. Governor in 2000. I’ll let you know for […]

I hear the likely candidate to replace the outgoing head of the Indiana Republican party is key Mitch Daniels aide, Mark Lubbers, who is also the husband of State Senator Threasa Lubbers. We’ll see. So much for taking Friday off.

I’m taking a few days off to spend time with my son, but before I disappear I wanted to leave you with these two items to chew on for a while, lawmakers health insurance and Marion County Consolidation. Health Care for Life As you know there has been a stir raised in the Capitol over […]

In the nearly year and a half that I have come to know Mitch Daniels one thing I can say is that although he may be from Indiana, he sure doesn’t act like it. In his second State of the State address the Governor outlined a road map for Indiana that continues it in the […]