Incident At Government Center: The Majority and Minority Factor
STATE HOUSE–Debate about whether a bill that allows a mostly white township in St. Joseph County to leave the South Bend Community School District is discriminatory, spilled over into the hallway at Government Center, Thursday.
News 8’s David Williams witnessed the incident and reported that Rep. Vanessa Summers (D-Indianapolis) was part of a small group of representatives who left the floor and went into the hallway when hissing and cat calls could be heard during Rep. Greg Porter’s floor speech about his experience as a Black man.
“Rep. Eberhart (Sean Eberhart, a Republican from Shelbyville) got upset. He thought I was talking directly to him. I was not. Then he called me a bitch,” said Summers. She said she was upset that it was tough for a Black representative to talk about the Black experience on the House floor.
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INDIANAPOLIS â Tensions flared at the Indiana Statehouse Thursday when several Black lawmakers were shouted down and booed by Republican lawmakers during floor debate on a South Bend Community School Corp.-related bill that some see as discriminatory.
Rep. Greg Porter, D-Indianapolis, walked off the House floor after several Republican lawmakers loudly objected to his calls of discrimination in House Bill 1367. Porter, a member of the Black caucus, said the bill would allow students in St. Joseph Countyâs Greene Township to leave the South Bend district, which is racially diverse, to join John Glenn School Corp., which is smaller, more rural and made up of primarily white students.
Legislation tackles toxic forever chemicals found in Indianapolis drinking water London Gibson, Indianapolis Star
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Concern is growing nationwide about a family of toxic chemicals found in everything from fabrics to food service containers. And that concern has now reached the Indiana statehouse.
These chemicals, often called forever chemicals, are linked to severe health impacts, including cholesterol and cancer. They also don t break down naturally. And they re seemingly everywhere.
Known most widely as PFAS chemicals, these substances have been sparking alarm from scientists and health professionals for the better part of two decades now, but little is known about exactly where they are or how much of them is in our bodies.