Voter guide: Monroe County Council At-Large election
The Indiana Daily Student sent a list of questions to the candidates in elections in the region and state. Throughout the next week, we will be publishing the candidates’ responses.
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The Indiana Daily Student sent a list of questions to the candidates in elections in the region and state. Throughout the next week, we will be publishing the candidates’ responses.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump participated in competing town halls Thursday night.
Gov. Eric Holcomb speaks Wednesday during a press conference. Holcomb announced Indiana will remain at Stage 5 of his Back on Track COVID-19 plan.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced at a Wednesday press conference Indiana will remain at Stage 5 of his Back on Track COVID-19 plan despite the recent increase in COVID-19 cases last week. He also said he would extend the mask mandate, which was scheduled to end Saturday, but neglected to mention for how long.
The Indiana Memorial Union has been a polling location in the past and will be as well this year. Despite the campus-wide mask mandate, people will not be required to wear a face mask in the IMU polling location.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a time when people need music the most, yet the pandemic is the thing that keeps music from bringing people together, said Carrie Newcomer Southern Indiana singer-songwriter.
The first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden held Tuesday night was characterized by interruption and personal attacks on character, with Trump talking over Biden to ask him questions about his son’s relationship with Moscow and Biden calling Trump a “clown” and “Putin’s puppy” among other names.
Update 11:17 p.m. Oct. 13: A federal appeals court decided Tuesday to repeal a decision made by a district court to extend the date by which absentee votes could be received. Now, mail-in ballots must be received by noon on Nov. 3 to be counted.
Those registered to vote in Monroe County can participate in early voting starting at8 a.m. Oct. 6 at Election Central in Bloomington.
Normally at this time of year, the Monroe County Democratic and Republican Parties are hosting fundraising events, gathering in large groups to do phone banking and going door-to-door polling for the upcoming election. This year, that is not the case.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday night in her home from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said in an announcement Friday. She was 87.
Dr. Kristina Box, state health commissioner, announced at a Wednesday afternoon press conference that Indiana will recommend stricter COVID-19 guidelines to Monroe and Delaware counties because of the increase in cases in those areas.
A screen displaying an Indiana map with Monroe and Delaware counties shaded orange is shown during a Zoom meeting Wednesday with Gov. Eric Holcomb. Orange counties have moderate to high community spread of COVID-19.
Tamara Loewenthal, executive director of the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, said she estimates that her organization lost up to $40,000 from canceling its spring programming due to COVID-19.
IU’s December 2020 graduation ceremony, which was opened for both spring and fall 2020 graduates, will be virtual, IU said in an email. The university’s first-ever virtual commencement ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. on December 19 at a link that will be sent to graduates at a later date.
Kelley School of Business professors wrote a report that was accepted by Washington and Lee Law Review in March which addressed voting security and how the United States can better protect its voting process. Professors Scott Shackelford, Abbey Stemler and Anjanette Raymond and Pennsylvania State University professor Cyanne Loyle contributed to the paper, which also looked at the ways other countries are protecting their democratic institutions.
IU is proposing that $235 million be appropriated from Indiana’s state government to finance various construction projects as part of a state budget proposal for 2021.
A map provided by the Indiana State Department of Health is shown Wednesday in a virtual weekly update on the coronavirus pandemic. The state map detailing the severity of the COVID-19 presence in each Indiana county was changed this week to no longer include percent change of the positivity rate from the previous week as an indicator of that status, State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said.
Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box updated the public on the number of COVID-19 cases in Indiana at a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson said Indiana is using its normal election process and not a revised process, like the one used for the primary elections. Indiana's stay-at-home order was lifted Wednesday during a virtual press conference on COVID-19 updates.