(SPEEDWAY, Ind.) – State health officials say a three-week decline in COVID-19 cases is encouraging, but it doesn’t mean Hoosiers can let their guard down. Case numbers have dropped by one-sixth in the last three weeks, and the statewide positivity rate dipped into moderate-risk range on Monday for the first time in a month. State […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – A slightly revised new state Senate map is headed for the Senate floor on Thursday. Republicans incorporated a Democratic suggestion to avoid overstuffing the district of Minority Leader Greg Taylor (D-Indianapolis) with minority voters. The federal Voting Rights Act encourages majority-minority districts when racially polarized voting effectively denies minority candidates the chance to […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – A Senate committee will vote Tuesday on proposed new legislative maps, a day after a final public hearing on the plan. The two-and-a-half hour session was the 12th hearing on redistricting, but the only one to be held after the release of new state Senate districts last week. Critics of both the maps […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – This year’s legislative session ain’t necessarily over when it’s over. Normally, state law would have ended the session in April. Because the census was late delivering data for redistricting, legislators passed a bill giving them until November 15, the day before the new session starts. The House approved new legislative and congressional districts […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Two Indianapolis legislators want Indiana to dip into pandemic relief money to target bad drivers. After a five-year low in 2019, traffic deaths were up 8% in Indiana last year, paralleling a similar increase nationally. Democrats Blake Johnson and Mitch Gore suggest people got into bad habits during the pandemic when there were […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The House has approved new maps of who represents you at the statehouse and in Washington. Republicans boast they kept more than 90% of cities, towns and townships undivided on the Indiana House map, while just eight counties will be split between congressional districts. Avon Representative Greg Steuerwald, who drew the U.S. and […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The House is set for a final vote on new legislative and congressional maps Thursday. The redistricting plan cleared a final procedural hurdle on Wednesday, with Republicans inserting the proposed new Senate districts announced this week, and rejecting a Democratic alternative to the new Indiana House map, drawn by a finalist in a […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The third and final piece of Indiana’s redistricting puzzle is in place, with Senate Republicans releasing their proposed new map of the chamber’s 50 seats. The map eliminates a southeast Indiana seat and creates a new open seat in Indy. Four pairs of incumbents end up pitted against each other: Democrats Lonnie Randolph […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Salem Representative Steve Davisson’s fellow House members are remembering him as a model legislator and “a friend to every Hoosier.” The pharmacist and six-term Republican died Sunday after a battle with cancer, one day before the House returned from a five-month recess to handle redistricting. House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) says Davisson was […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – There are some minor changes to the congressional and Indiana House maps unveiled last week. Legislators reshuffled fewer than 60 voters to bring the nine congressional districts even closer to equal populations. And they tweaked the lines of four Allen County House districts to fix a problem which split an apartment complex between […]
