House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Rodric Bray sent a joint letter Tuesday to 20 hospital and insurance executives, telling them to submit a plan by April 1 that would lower Indiana’s hospital prices to the national average or lower by 2025.
May 25, 2021 / 02:39 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana’s attorney general is arguing that the governor is wrongly trying to use the courts to expand his powers with a lawsuit challenging the authority state legislators have given themselves to intervene during public emergencies.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb asked a judge last month to block the new law passed by the GOP-dominated legislature following criticism from many conservatives over COVID-19 restrictions that Holcomb imposed.
Attorney General Todd Rokita argues in new court documents that he is within his legal authority to turn down Holcomb’s request to take the dispute to court after the Legislature overrode the governor’s veto of the new law.
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Aside from domestic homicides, violent perpetrators are generally obtaining weapons outside the reach of gun laws.
Indianapolis Star
If you want to know why nothing will change after the mass shooting at the FedEx Ground facility near the Indianapolis airport, you can find part of the answer about 22 miles away from the carnage.
The Indiana State Fairgrounds will be bustling all weekend with people paying $15 apiece (plus another $10 in parking) to attend the Indy 1500 Gun & Knife Show, which bills itself as “One of the Largest Gun & Knife Shows East of the Mississippi!”
What you’d find would not be surprising: Americans love guns. There are hundreds of millions of them in the U.S., more per capita than any other country. Any serious effort to keep guns away from every person who might go on a shooting rampage would also have to be a serious effort to keep guns away from the people who are walking the fairgrounds this weekend.
Indy council member calls on Holcomb, lawmakers to address gun control after FedEx shooting Kaitlin Lange, Indianapolis Star
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An Indianapolis City-County councilwoman is calling on Gov. Eric Holcomb and state lawmakers to address gun violence before they leave the Statehouse next week after eight people were killed during a mass shooting at the FedEx Ground Plainfield Operations Center.
Indianapolis City-County Councillor Ali Brown, a Democrat, released a statement Friday morning encouraging legislative leaders and Holcomb to take proactive action to prevent more mass shootings. It would be absolutely coldhearted of House Speaker Todd Huston, Senate President Rodric Bray, and Governor Eric Holcomb if they failed to address gun violence as the state is currently in session and able to find a solution to this problem, Brown said in a statement. The conversation will be tough, but we must get a firm grip of the situation and the colle