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Many Indiana school districts will see their funding stay flat or even shrink over the next two years despite a new state budget that increases money for education.

Twenty years in the making and nearly $100 million later, a major road project in Tippecanoe County is slowly, but surely coming to an end.

He is the grandson of Nora Whaley and the late Robert Whaley of Bloomington, and Ann Blessinger and the late Cletis Blessinger of Holland, Ind.

As the salaries of various local CEOs have been published and the focus of media attention recently, we thought it might be an opportune time to address the issue of compensation for some very important Hoosier leaders.

Purdue University trustees today finalized a two-year tuition freeze on the flagship campus and 2 percent tuition increases at regional campuses.

Updating yesterday's ILB entry , that includes links to prior coverage of the Indiana legislative prayer case, Dan Carden reports today in the NWI Times , in a story headed "Prayer case set for U.S. Supreme Court similar to Ind.

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

Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

By Mitch Daniels / Special to the Courier & Press Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University.

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.