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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill appealed to the Supreme Court, on Friday. Hill is asking the nation’s highest court to implement restrictions on abortion. Those increased restrictions were passed by the state legislature during then-Governor Mike Pence’s administration, in 2016. The abortion statutes, called House Enrolled Act 1337, seek to prohibit women in the state from getting an abortion because …

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly weighed in on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb’s proposed one billion dollar infrastructure plan did not seek input from the state’s legislature; Second Lady Karen Pence will be in Indiana tomorrow; The Second Annual South Central Indiana Opioid Summit begins tomorrow; Electric scooters have popped up at bike racks across Bloomington; The …

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb’s proposed $1 billion infrastructure plan did not seek input from the state’s legislature. According to the South Bend Journal Gazette, the Governor’s proposal to the Indiana Finance Authority largely bypassed legislators. The IFA is expected to pass the Governor’s infrastructure agenda this Thursday, according to the Associated Press. The infrastructure proposal would levy higher tolls on …

Bloomington City Council members are working to limit the heights of new downtown development, the Sophia Travis playground at Karst Farm Park is getting a makeover, the Indiana legislature is considering revising Indiana’s alcohol laws, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb addressed the state legislature in his State of the State address on Tuesday night. FEATURE Indiana’s legislature passed a law last session …

Special interests, including the Cook Group, played a significant role in a surprise reversal of the city of Bloomington’s annexation plans. That’s according to officials at City Hall and the Statehouse today. A last-minute effort to kill the controversial annexation succeeded on Friday night, as state lawmakers approved a budget bill with language that makes it illegal for the city …