Folks, who know me well, know I love history. History is a great teacher – and what happened earlier this week in the Indiana House of Representatives reminded me of that. In darkest days of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt passed the Davis-Bacon Act, which created something known as the common construction wage or…
The Indiana House has passed a bill that would eliminate the common construction wage law in the state, allowing the state and municipalities to decide the pay for each position of a public works project. The common construction wage law sets base pay rates on public building projects in the state to ensure a decent…
The Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday that strips the elected State Superintendent of her chairmanship on the State Board of Education. The change allows the State Board of Education to select its own chairperson. It would also change the composition of the board from ten members to nine members. The Indiana Senate approved the…
Indiana’s legislature is currently considering a number of so-called “religious freedom” bills that have arose in the months since the state was forced to begin recognizing same-sex marriages. Senate Bill 568 prohibits the state or local governments from passing laws that “compel a person to take an action that is contrary to the person’s exercise…
There will not be a state-run news website in Indiana. After receiving harsh criticism in the press and among politicians in his own party, Governor Mike Pence sent out a memo to his agency heads today informing them that his administration’s plans for a state-run news website known as “Just IN” would not go forward….
