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General Assembly NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette INDIANAPOLIS – Republicans unveiled a $37.4 billion budget deal Tuesday that gives K-12 schools nearly $2 billion in new education money – a likely record amount to be used to boost teacher pay statewide. The final compromise – to be voted on today by the House and Senate – also spends billions in one-time federal and state dollars. Some of those investments include broadband expansion, health grants, mental health programs, pension paydown, debt repayment, capital projects, grants for struggling businesses and a replenishment of the state unemployment trust fund. “I think we are living in a rare time, . and we are going to seize the day,” Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a joint news conference with legislative leaders. ....
âIâll see you in heaven.â It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization. Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation. ....