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Graduate students at Purdue University are hoping that worker strikes at Indiana University will help build momentum for their own efforts to institute a living wage on campus.

The preferred route, called Alternative P, would go between interstates 69 and 64. It follows nearly the same path as highway 231 but bypasses cities like Loogootee, Jasper and Huntingburg.

Indiana recorded a 2.2 percent unemployment rate in March. It’s the third-lowest rate in the country and yet another record low for the state.

Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union.

The tax hike would generate about $18 million in annual revenue for the City of Bloomington, $11.4 million for Monroe County, and $1.4 million for Ellettsville.

Artist Tiffany Black partnered with two evacuees, Zainab Ahmadi and Fawzia Abdaly, to lead the mural project, which received contributions from 57 other evacuees at Camp Atterbury.

The three — employees for Parks & Recreation (Parks), Utilities (CBU), and City Hall — are among 301 to test positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Purdue relies on its power plant for half its electricity and all of its heat. It has three natural gas boilers and one coal unit. Though it’s small, it’s one of the few coal-burning plants in the state that isn’t expected to retire within the decade.

The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Indiana police officer in 2019 is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their wrongful death lawsuit.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office has refiled involuntary manslaughter charges against three men in connection with the sinking of a tourist boat that killed 17 people in 2018.