Indiana lawmakers unlikely to adopt lower drunken driving threshold

INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's federal-phobic Legislature likely won't follow a national safety panel's recommendation that states reduce their drunken driving limits to 0.05 blood alcohol content from 0.08.

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President, Congress must reduce spending

To get serious about cutting the federal budget and decreasing the national debt, our public officials should consider all avenues before cutting the pay of people who work for the government.

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Choices at budget event were like hobo stew

I was invited to participate in U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky's event on balancing the federal budget and prepared a carefully considered list of 10 essential items, congressional actions needed to stop money hemorrhages and restore jobs to provide taxes to operate the government.

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YOUNG VOICES: I hope Obama's charm offense brings compromise

After recent events, a change might be on the horizon of the American political arena. The beginning of March brought about the sequester. Congress could not come to a consensus, so President Barack Obama signed the budget cuts into law on March 1.

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Balancing the budget

Congressman Pete Visclosky and The Concord Coalition offered a unique exercise for some of his constituents - balance the budget.

Lieutenant Governor works to bring defense jobs to Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS | Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann is not letting the federal budget sequester, which will slice $492 billion from defense spending over the next 10 years, ruin her plans to lure defense companies to the state through the new Indiana Office of Defense Development.

State drops plan to halt unemployment payments

INDIANAPOLIS | State officials have canceled a plan to suspend unemployment payments for more than 32,000 out-of-work Hoosiers that was prompted by automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester.

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LARRY DeBOER: Looking over the fiscal cliff

Economics is not an experimental science. We can't say to Congress, "Honorable ladies and gentlemen, please drastically raise taxes and cut spending all at once so we can measure the effects on the economy of changes in the federal government's budget." This is not what elected officials do.