By Niki Kelly | Editor-in-Chief
Today is daylight saving time, so if you just woke up, be sure to set your clocks back one hour. Then go back to sleep.
This week we examined Indiana’s legalization of lay midwives as more Hoosier women are opting to deliver at home.
Federal election monitors will be at some polls in Indiana, but you don’t have to talk to them.
Speaking of DST, are you ready for it to be permanent?
Plus, election fundraising, execution and Medicaid news.
A growing number of Hoosier women are seeking midwives to deliver their babies at home. (Getty Images)
More Hoosier women are delivering at home. Is it safe?
By Mackenzi Klemann
A series of infant and maternal deaths overseen by unlicensed midwives led Hoosier lawmakers to a conclusion in 2013: legalize and regulate the practice to make it safer.
Would a path to licensure with formal training protect women who want to deliver their children at home?
Thirteen years later, Hoosier women are increasingly turning to midwives for care, as fewer obstetricians practice in the state and women report declining trust in the medical system.
Voters cast their ballots for the May 19, 2026, primary election at Fox Hollow Elementary School in Idaho Falls. (Photo by Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun)
Federal election monitors won’t enter Indiana polling sites, officials say
By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz
Two-dozen federal Department of Justice monitors will observe Election Day voting — and conduct voluntary exit interviews — in two Indiana counties from outside the polling locations, election officials said Wednesday.
Up to 12 are expected to come to central Indiana’s Marion County, with another dozen going to Lake County near Chicago. The heavily blue areas host the state’s only Democratic representatives in Congress.
COMMENTARY
An electric lineman on July 28, 2026 in Hendricks County. (Photo by Jack Forrest/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Indiana cannot afford uncertainty in its energy future
By Baron Hill
Indiana has spent much of this summer debating electricity rates, utility regulation, and the future of our energy system. That debate has now entered another chapter. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is reconsidering the recently approved AES Indiana rate increase.
Every Hoosier should care deeply about keeping electricity affordable for working families and local businesses. However, recent events also raise a larger question about whether large, long-term investors can rely on Indiana to maintain the stable investment environment necessary to finance our growing energy needs.
NATIONAL NEWS
A clock stands in front of the former train depot in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, on March 6, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)
Time for change? Permanent daylight saving time bill awaiting US Senate action
By David Lightman
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks.
President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats and Republicans are behind the idea.
Yet, any momentum has stalled. The legislation can’t get out of the U.S. Senate, and it looks unlikely there’ll be much progress anytime soon.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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