A new study from SmartAsset ranks Indiana University Bloomington fifth in the state for best value colleges. A new study ranks Indiana University Bloomington among the best value colleges in Indiana – but it lags behind other universities like Purdue and the University of Notre Dame. IU Bloomington ranked fifth overall. The study from financial […]
A new study ranks Indiana University Bloomington among the best value colleges in Indiana – but it lags behind other universities like Purdue and the University of Notre Dame. IU Bloomington ranked fifth overall. The study from financial technology company SmartAsset ranks the “best value colleges” in Indiana across five categories: tuition, student living costs, […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour endorsement in Indiana’s lieutenant governor’s race flopped on Saturday, with his preferred candidate losing in a convention battle in this deep-red state. In a somewhat rare down-ballot defeat for the former president, state Rep. Julie McGuire, his endorsed candidate, narrowly lost to Micah Beckwith — a Christian nationalist pastor and […]
Indiana farm boy Rod Ratcliff built a Statehouse money machine to push legislation favorable to his gambling interests. IndyStar’s three-part story, “The Rise and Fall of Indiana’s Casino King,” follows the career of the former farm boy from rural Indiana who rose from obscurity to become the state’s most powerful gaming executive. In doing so, […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Women have never held Indiana’s top office, but their streak as the state’s second-in-command appears to be going strong heading into the fall elections. Indiana is one of 18 states to never elect a woman as governor, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics, even as four of the […]
The exact date varies across grades and subjects, but Indiana’s student achievement scores peaked about a decade ago and have been falling since. The decline started well before COVID-19 and has not affected students evenly. Perhaps not surprisingly, Indiana’s lowest-performing youngsters have suffered the largest losses. This wasn’t always the case. In the early 2000s, […]
Five GOP candidates attended the final gubernatorial debate of the season Tuesday April 23, 2024. (Screenshot from livestream) Five of the six Republicans hoping to be Indiana’s next governor squabbled more with the moderator than they did over policy issues during their last pre-primary debate on Tuesday — just two weeks before the May election. […]
This article was originally published in Indiana Capital Chronicle. Just one week out from Indiana’s deadline for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, the latest data shows only about one-third of Hoosier high school seniors have completed the form. That’s despite a new state law that took effect last year requiring all […]
The eclipse is over and I’m glad that, if nothing else, it gave us a chance to talk about Bonnie Tyler again. Tyler’s 1983 song, “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” is an absolute banger. Beyond that, she got away with making it a seven-minute track at a time when radio dictated the terms of new […]
WINCHESTER, Ind. – A supercell that developed over Indiana and moved into western Ohio is believed to have spawned the strongest tornado of the year to impact the U.S. with estimated winds of 155-165 mph. A severe weather outbreak that occurred during the evening of March 14 and the morning of March 15 produced nearly […]
EVANSVILLE — A wildly unpredictable and packed race for Congress awaits area voters who will choose major party candidates on May 7 to succeed 8th District Congressman Larry Bucshon. With the end of the filing period on Friday, voters in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey, Gibson and 17 other Southern and West-Central Indiana counties will have four […]
According to Sarah Bowman’s Jan. 17 IndyStar article, there is another attempt to allow hunting and trapping of Indiana’s bobcats via proposed Senate Bill 241. I thought, “What, again?” Please, raise your hand if you have ever seen a bobcat. What is it about people feeling the need to hunt these native predators that decided […]