Indiana State Senate to consider bill removing handgun license requirement
On Jan. 12, the Indiana House of Representatives referred House Bill 1077 to the Indiana State Senate for consideration.
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On Jan. 12, the Indiana House of Representatives referred House Bill 1077 to the Indiana State Senate for consideration.
We aren’t giving peace much of a chance, are we?
A video recently resurfaced on social media of President Joe Biden’s June 2020 comments comparing the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the murder of George Floyd. The statement caused great conversation on various media platforms in recent weeks.
The Indiana House passed House Bill 1134, a controversial education bill, Wednesday evening. The bill will now move on to the Senate for consideration.
The Monroe County Community School Corporation Board of Trustees approved updates regarding their COVID-19 contact tracing and quarantine procedures during their meeting Tuesday.
Ross Grimes was unanimously selected by the Monroe County Community School Corporation Board of Trustees to serve the remainder of Jacinda Townsend Gides’ District 6 seat during a special meeting Jan. 20.
Indiana state legislators voiced opposition to a proposed bill that would limit the teaching of race-related topics in Indiana schools. The comments were made during a virtual event hosted by College Democrats of Indiana.
Jennifer Crossley became the first Black woman to serve as a Monroe County Council member after being appointed to the Monroe County Council District 4 seat Dec. 19.
“Marxism, Nazism, fascism… I believe we’ve gone too far when we take a position. We need to be impartial,” Republican Sen. Scott Baldwin, who co-wrote Indiana Senate Bill 167 said Jan. 5.
Last November, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a very long, rambling speech in an attempt to stall a vote on the Build Back Better Act. He claimed, “Nobody elected Joe Biden to be FDR,” referring to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a man most notable for his welfare-expanding New Deal. He was so popular that he was elected four times.
U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-IN., will not be seeking reelection to Indiana’s ninth Congressional District in 2022 after serving three terms, according to an editorial he wrote to the IndyStar Wednesday.
All three Monroe County commissioners and the County Residents Against Annexation, an anti-annexation group in Monroe County, met at the Monroe County Courthouse on Jan. 6 to mark the end of the 90-day remonstrance period and to offer preliminary remonstration petition estimates.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. That day, a joint session of Congress convened to certify the electoral vote victory of President Joe Biden. Approximately 2,000 supporters of former president Donald Trump protested the vote certification because they believed the election was fraudulent. They gathered in an attempt to “Stop the Steal,” ultimately breaching the Capitol building and forcing members of Congress to hide for their safety.
IU faculty member Isak Nti Asare announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Indiana’s 9th congressional district, according to a press release Thursday from his campaign. Nti Asare would be the first African American representative of the district if elected.
Bloomington’s plans to annex certain areas around the city could be halted as early as February 2022. Many residents oppose annexation due to the increase in local taxes and extension of unwanted city services like water, sewage and others.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for sexual assault or incest. Oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Davis Health Organization began on Dec. 1.
The Bloomington City Council voted to prohibit the sale of cats and dogs from local pet shops Wednesday. The ordinance would fine each store $500 per violation and go into effect Jan. 1, 2023, to allow local pet shops to adjust to the change.
The Bloomington City Council debated placing restrictions on local pet shops to prohibit the sale of cats and dogs Nov 17. The council also heard a presentation from the department of Planning and Transportation updating the city’s progress regarding the 2018 Comprehensive Plan initiative.
IU history professor Alex Lichtenstein will lead students from IU through historic monuments in the Civil Rights Movement to commemorate American history and facilitate conversations about preserving national history.
Representatives from around the world, including IU experts, faculty and students are currently gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations’ 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26. The conference started Oct. 31 and will go through Nov. 12.