Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:44 — 3.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Indiana State Senate approved a nearly $34.5 billion state budget, today. Indiana works on a biennial budget, meaning every two years the state legislature votes on allocating billions of dollars to the state’s general fund. The 2020-2021 budget is nearly $3 billion more than the budget …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08 — 938.5KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana House Republicans will hang onto their super-majority in the state’s legislature. The Republicans have held a super-majority of over two-thirds in both the state house and state senate since 2012. The Grand Old Party currently maintains 67 seats in the state’s House of representatives to the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:38 — 2.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana residents voting in the upcoming midterm elections will face three public questions on their ballot. The first is a proposed change to the Indiana State Constitution, while the other two ask if two judges in statewide voting jurisdictions will keep their offices. The first public question …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:24 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCongress is currently reconciling the Senate and House of representatives respective Farm Bills, both of which won largely partisan support. Among the proposed changes are increases in requirements for Hoosiers to qualify for SNAP benefits – formerly called food stamps. In today’s Feature Report, WFHB Correspondent Jonah Chester …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:42 — 8.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana University Graduate students protested and delivered a petition to President Michael McRobbie’s office yesterday afternoon. At the heart of their concern is a measure in the proposed U.S. House tax plan that would repeal a tax exemption for tuition reimbursement for graduate students. The tuition reimbursement …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:32 — 23.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSeven of Indiana’s nine congress people voted to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act; The Bloomington City Council expressed their disappointment with the Indiana legislature; A prosecutor in Muncie is actively fighting the development of a syringe exchange program in the city; Indiana’s 2017 trout stream …
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