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Pamela Whitten issued a statement Friday after lawmakers unveiled the state’s new two-year, $44.5 billion spending plan, which prohibits state funding to the Kinsey Institute.

Indiana lawmakers are wrapping up the 2023 session with a new state budget. Bloomington officials are facing pushback from residents about plans to close a stretch of road through Lower Cascades Park.

The Indiana legislature approved a controversial bill Thursday that centers on what books students should and should not have access to in school.

Turmoil over the state budget at the end of the 2023 session delivered another $312 million for K-12 schools as lawmakers gave final approval to the new two-year, $44.5 billion spending plan.

Republicans hailed the 2023 legislative session as one that saw “generational investments” in education, health care and economic development.

The waste leftover from burning coal can have toxic heavy metals like mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

Seventeen Indiana University graduate programs and specialty areas are ranked among the nation’s top 10 of U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate School rankings. 

The bill creates a list of about two dozen core services those departments must provide if they want access to dramatically increased funding from the state.

Rep. Beau Baird (R-Greencastle) said the current version of Senate Bill 242 puts property owners in the driver’s seat.

The city is in the beginning phases of a corridor study for College and Walnut and is seeking community input.