By Niki Kelly | Editor-in-Chief
Looking for a summer day trip? Head to Bedford, which is known for its high-quality limestone, used in landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Pentagon. Travelers can visit local quarries or admire stonework around the state.
Transparency takes another blow as the Indiana inspector general will post fewer investigative summaries into waste, fraud and abuse in state government.
Gov. Mike Braun issues another executive order backing coal-powered electricity-generating plants.
And the state prepares new carbon sequestration rules.
Plus, check out details for a meet and greet with the ICC staff below!
The Indiana Office of Inspector General, located in the Indiana State Library, is pictured on Dec. 11, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Indiana inspector general discontinues publication of investigative reports
By Mackenzi Klemann
The Indiana Office of Inspector General will no longer publish summaries of its investigations into alleged fraud, mismanagement and wrongdoing in state government.
State law classifies OIG investigative reports as confidential, but reports can be released if the governor or inspector general determines the information is in the public's interest.
In the past, inspectors general have waived confidentiality when investigations identified government waste or resulted in criminal or ethics charges.
Gov. Mike Braun wants to reevaluate the planned closure or conversion of coal-powered electric generating plants in Indiana. (Getty Images)
Braun directs state to revisit coal power plant closures
By Jack Forrest
Gov. Mike Braun directed his energy and natural resources secretary to revisit settlements that closed or sought to close coal power plants in Indiana.
Settlements identified in a Friday executive order include those that would close a plant before 50 years of service — described as the average age of retirement for electric generation units in Indiana — or where there was no allegation or finding of wrongdoing.
NATIONAL NEWS
Kentucky Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman holds up a cellphone as he kicked off Child Abuse Prevention Month in April. Legal experts say state attorneys general are playing a heightened role in consumer protection work amid persistently high prices and a drawdown in federal oversight. (Photo by Sarah Ladd/Kentucky Lantern)
State AGs expand consumer work as prices rise and Trump guts federal protections
By Kevin Hardy
Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves.
Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more in the past two years, legal experts say. The change follows Trump’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created by Congress in the wake of the Great Recession. And persisting concerns about the high prices of housing, groceries and fuel has made affordability a top political concern for many AGs.
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