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Mike Pence closed the door Friday on a Pakistani company's efforts to secure $1.3 billion in Indiana-issued bonds to build a massive fertilizer plant in Posey County.

By Andrea Neal / Special to the Courier & Press Andrea Neal is adjunct scholar with the Indiana Policy Review Foundation.

It is no longer polite to talk about the Common Core curriculum in many conservative circles.

Indiana's former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels was one of the biggest supporters of the K-12 academic standards known as Common Core.

Mike Pence signed into law a measure that would make such mergers more difficult in the future.

At Tuesday's Fort Wayne City Council meeting, John Shoaff, D-at large, went out of his way to derail an otherwise routine matter.

DURING his recently completed term in office, former Gov. Mitch Daniels was given justifiable credit for a series of property tax reforms.

On several occasions, Gov. Mike Pence has made clear that he is hesitant to sign a bill that would reorganize significant parts of Marion County government.

It is a question asked by all of us whose lives and jobs are dependent on computers with email and Internet access, fax machines, cellphones and other other electronic essentials of this modern age: What do you do when the electronic devices fail? Well, if you are high school students in about 25 Kentucky school districts, you abandon technology ... (more)

In a setback for Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal 's education reform agenda, the Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday said the state can't fund its landmark vouchers initiative with money meant for public schools.

Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill Tuesday that will help Indiana schools hire more resource officers to improve safety as lawmakers continue discussions about whether school staff and volunteers should one day be armed.

Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will receive two more awards this week for his 36-year career on Capitol Hill.

Noted Indiana leaders paid tribute Sunday to the passing of Otis “Doc” Bown, the former Republican Indiana governor who went on to serve under President Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Former Gov. Otis Bowen wrote this op-ed for The Indianapolis Star in 2008 Thirty-five years ago this month I took office as Indiana's governor and immediately set to work with the General Assembly to deliver property tax relief that was "visible, lasting and substantial." The situation then was not dissimilar to the position Indiana finds itself ... (more)

Gov. Mike Pence could give more Sagamore of the Wabash awards in one year than former Gov.

The Common Core academic standards looked like a mighty Goliath when opponents began their opposition last year.

Many frustrated students have been reduced to tears and administrators are boiling over, calling the problems "disastrous" and "unacceptable" at a time when test results count so heavily toward schools' ratings under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

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He received them from four of the past six Indiana governors: Otis Bowen, Robert Orr, Evan Bayh and Mitch Daniels.

Legislation approved by Indiana lawmakers to trigger review of the risky financing plan behind the Rockport coal gasification plant most likely means the $2.8 billion project will never come to pass.