The Board of Trustees of the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District will hold an executive session on Monday, March 29 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. A public session follows at 11:30 AM Eastern. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District operates the South Shore Line with service from Millennium Station in downtown Chicago to the South…
The first case of the more contagious B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant has appeared in Elkhart County. According to the Elkhart County Health Department, the Indiana Department of Health Laboratory notified the county that the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant was collected over the weekend. The variant is from mutations that were first found in the United Kingdom. It…
It’s early Sunday morning. Our clocks “spring forward” an hour even as the position of the Earth relative to the sun barely changed. Thanks for nothing, Daylight Savings Time. Like millions of Americans, I wake up groggy. That grogginess (and grumpiness) spills into Monday and the rest of the week as our internal clocks have…
The Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC) will hold its Congressional 2nd District hearing virtually from 7 to 9 PM on Tuesday, March 30. Members of the public are invited to attend. The nine-member commission was formed to demonstrate that redistricting can be done by a diverse and multi-partisan team of Hoosiers in a transparent process…
Starting on Monday morning, pre-K through grade 12 teachers and school staff along with childcare workers are eligible to register for the COVID-19 vaccine in Indiana. The news was made via the Indiana Department of Health’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. The tweet reads: “Pre K-12 staff and childcare workers, thank you for being a constant…
Governor Eric Holcomb has announced the selection of Jim Staton to serve as Indiana’s interim Secretary of Commerce. The announcement comes a week after the state’s former Secretary of Commerce, Jim Schellinger, resigned. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Commerce, he served as president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. He was also a…
Hoosiers age 50 years or older now qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine. The Indiana Department of Health made the announcement just one day after it expanded eligibility to those aged 55 or older. It’s not clear why the state made the change so quickly. However, the expansion of eligibility makes the vaccine available to an…
Shortly after President Biden ordered a military strike in Syria, two leading Democrats openly criticized the move. Now there’s a bipartisan push to limit presidential war powers. “Offensive military action without congressional approval is not constitutional absent extraordinary circumstances,” Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said last week. Kaine is the Democratic Party’s former vice presidential nominee….
The Indiana Department of Health announced today that the state has expanded COVID-19 vaccination eligibility. Effective today, Hoosiers age 55 and older are now eligible to receive the vaccine. In addition to those who are age 55 and older, healthcare workers, long-term care residents and first responders who are regularly called to the scene of…
Representative Jackie Walorski joined all House Republicans and two Democrats in voting against the latest round of pandemic-related economic stimulus. The bill passed the House of Representatives in a 219-212 vote. The House bill provides $1.9 trillion in aid to help struggling American families, frontline workers, state and local governments, small businesses, and the nation’s…
