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The right-to-work debate is facing a constitutional showdown and it's getting personal between House leadership.   House Minority Leader Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, and other Democrats refused to debate on the House floor Tuesday, saying they needed to...

Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, pulled a conference committee report for Senate Bill 373, the controversial "ag gag bill," in the waning hours of the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly, effectively killing the bill. The...

An anti-trespassing bill aimed originally at photographing agricultural processes has been amended to remove all references to photographs and will go before a state conference committee next week. The original bill, Indiana Senate Bill 373,...

SOUTH BEND -- Indiana University South Bend Chancellor Una Mae Reck drew high praise Wednesday, with words including "focused," "tenacious" and "persistent" uttered frequently to describe her leadership style. "Indiana University is very proud of you,"...

GOSHEN -- As some state lawmakers on Thursday took aim at the Department of Child Services, the agency's director told a group of child welfare advocates that recent changes have allowed DCS to investigate more complaints while seeing fewer child...

Attached is a statement from State Rep. B. Patrick Bauer (D-South Bend) on Thursday's events:   “Despite the fact that I don’t agree with today’s outcome, I think Representative Lawson is a great leader.  She has a great background,...

Local GOP Responds to News of Bauer Ouster   South Bend, IN-The Saint Joseph County Republican Party is responding today in the wake of news that South Bend Representative, B. Patrick Bauer has been removed as house Minority Leader by his caucus....

INDIANAPOLIS -- The old model of voting in traditional, neighborhood precincts could be on its way out in Indiana. The General Assembly is moving quickly this year on legislation that would allow election officials in all of the state's 92 counties to...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma has a large red sign in his office that reads, "Keep calm and carry on." It's a reproduction of a poster the British government made in 1939 to reassure citizens at the start of World War II. Bosma, R-...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Growing tension among defiant House Democrats facing stiff fines and sparse resources threatens to disrupt a no-show effort aimed at blocking a bill that would make Indiana the first state in more than a decade to enact right-to-work...

Republicans in the Indiana General Assembly have picked up a tool that's becoming increasingly popular among opponents of the federal health care overhaul enacted two years ago. Whether the effort is a serious attempt to reform health care or merely a...