Rogers ensures public records remain accessible

INDIANAPOLIS | Led by state Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, the Indiana Senate last week voted to maintain a requirement schools publish their annual financial reports in widely read newspapers instead of on poorly trafficked websites.

Pence's state works councils plan receives Senate approval

INDIANAPOLIS | The Indiana Senate unanimously approved Gov. Mike Pence's proposal to establish regional Indiana Works Councils in which businesses and high schools would jointly develop a career curriculum program.

Legislature likely to wait for U.S. Supreme Court ruling before acting on marriage amendment

INDIANAPOLIS | The Republican leaders of the Indiana House and Senate have hinted they will delay voting on a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the issue in June.

GOP senators seek constitutional amendment on union elections

INDIANAPOLIS | Having prevailed last year in putting right-to-work into state law, some Republican senators now want to amend the Indiana Constitution to make it even more difficult for labor unions to organize.

PHIL WIELAND: Don't put Indiana education in Kruse control

It's a sad day for Indiana, one of a plethora, when the chairman of the state Senate's Education Committee thinks the top priority for improving our mediocre, at best, educational system is to require the reading of the Lord's Prayer in schools.

Indiana senator's plan to teach creationism evolves

INDIANAPOLIS | The issue of teaching creationism in Indiana science classrooms will be on the legislative agenda when the General Assembly convenes in January — it just won't be called that.

BRIAN HOWEY: Cat and mouse with Pence on his moral agenda

The cat and mouse game of Mike Pence and the "moral" issues that have been a virtual trademark of his meteoric political career are now beginning to come forward in his gubernatorial campaign against Democrat John Gregg.

YOUNG VOICES: Creationism doesn't belong in a science textbook

Indiana state Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, recently proposed Senate Bill 89, which aims to give Indiana schools the right to require that alternative theories of the origin of life -- and Kruse specifically adds "including creation science" [sic] in apposition -- be taught alongside evolutio…

BRIAN HOWEY: House Democrats lost faith in process, debate

Well, my offer of free beer on St. Patrick's Day for House Democrats at the Rathskeller if they came back from Illinois didn't work.

Educators get sneak peek at evaluation model

Local educators have plenty to say about the rough draft evaluation forms the Indiana Department of Education released Thursday; some like it, some don't.