Kayla Dwyer

1 week ago | indystar.com | Kayla Dwyer

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is facing another disciplinary complaint, this time filed by a state senator who says he made a "blatantly false" claim about her on a podcast this week. Republican Sen. Liz Brown of Fort Wayne said she filed an official grievance with the Indiana Supreme Court's disciplinary commission after Rokita said Brown told him she has a family member who's an unlawful resident. But Brown's office says Brown does not have a family member in the United States illegally.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Kayla Dwyer

Eager central Indiana commuters will now be able to drive 65 miles per hour ― legally ― on Interstate 465. The ten mile-per-hour increase was part of a large road funding bill that Gov. Mike Braun signed into law the evening of May 1. The increase did not appear in the original legislation and did not prompt much discussion during the legislative session.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Kayla Dwyer

The crowd of several hundred at the Indiana Statehouse May 1, marching against President Donald Trump's administration in concert with organizers in the other 49 states, wasn't the largest here since Trump took office but that did not concern local organizers. The informal leaders of Indiana 50501, the state's affiliate of the national movement that's been organizing peaceful marches since February, counted nearly 5,000 at a Saturday protest in April.

1 week ago | southbendtribune.com | Brittany Carloni |Kayla Dwyer

The Indiana General Assembly completed its work for the 2025 legislative session on April 25. Now, the bills that made it to the finish line are in the hands of Gov. Mike Braun. The governor can either sign, veto or take no action on bills that arrive at his desk, although bills that Braun doesn't act on automatically become law after seven days. Braun has already signed more than 100 bills into law, including the signature property tax relief legislation in Senate Enrolled Act 1.

2 weeks ago | indystar.com | Kayla Dwyer

Gov. Mike Braun rebuked his lieutenant governor's remark that the Three-Fifths Compromise was "a great move" but stopped short of calling for an apology as others have done. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith aired his perspective in a social media video last week, arguing that the agreement made during the 1787 Constitutional Convention to count an enslaved person as three-fifths of an individual for representation purposes actually cut against the southern states' goals of enshrining slavery.