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6 days ago | 
register-herald.com | Marilyn Odendahl
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6 days ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
Another allows child care providers to claim a tax credit worth up to 30% of expenses related to construction projects. The credit also grants tax relief equal to the qualifying child care provider’s employer withholding tax. “The aim is to raise salaries for those that work in the child care industry,” Shields said. The median hourly wage for preschool teachers was $17.85 in 2024, according to the most recent available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
The Indiana Citizen reports Lt. Gov. Beckwith also criticized “woke ideology” and shared a link to WallBuilders’ website. (Photo/Joe Ulery of Public News Service)This story was originally published by Public News Service. By Joe Ulery, anchor/producer Public News Service May 8, 2025An Indiana debate over history and power is growing. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently defended the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
The demands of leading a nation and a state don’t seem to be enough to occupy Trump and Braun. Maybe that’s why they each have taken on the task of trying to run a university, too. In Trump’s case, he’s decided that he should be able to tell Harvard University how it should handle itself in all matters. He’s threatened to cut off all federal funding to America’s oldest university unless the school’s president, board and faculty line up to kiss his ring.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales said Indiana’s coming student ID voting ban will help fulfill “my promise that only eligible Hoosiers are voting in our state.” (Photo/file) This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
Indiana lawmakers have expanded the state’s school voucher program so starting in 2026, all Hoosier families will be able to use public funds to pay private school tuition. (Photo/Pexels.com)By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025Michigan State University education policy professor Josh Cowen has spent two decades studying and writing about voucher programs, in which state tax dollars pay students’ private school tuition.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
On April 24, the Indiana General Assembly concluded the 2025 legislative session after nearly four months of deliberation over each of the 243 bills that made it to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk. Tuesday, on the deadline to take action, the governor signed the last 60 bills of the session. Among these bills were the state budget, several education-related pieces of legislation, multiple Medicaid bills and other hot topics of the session.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025In “Mother Night,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” I might add: “And for how long.”I was invited to join a small group of students last week to celebrate the completion of their undergraduate degrees. We first met four years ago, and I remember the moment vividly.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks May 4, 2025Indiana’s 2025 legislative session offered a valuable pair of economic lessons. The first is that there are no perfectly good or bad policies, only trade-offs. The second is that the cost of anything is measured by what you relinquish to obtain it—its opportunity cost.
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1 week ago | 
indianacitizen.org | Marilyn Odendahl
I was in the fourth or fifth grade. It was five or six years after an assassin’s bullet ended Kennedy’s life. For young people at that time, JFK seemed the embodiment of all that was good about America. He represented both courage and compassion, idealism and practicality, youth and wisdom. I was a bit young for the book then—he and his ghostwriter Ted Sorenson aimed it at a junior high school audience—but I’d always been a precocious reader.
