By Niki Kelly | Editor-in-Chief
“If you're asking more of the commission, to put more scrutiny on the regulated entities, then you're going to want to make sure that they have the appropriate resources, the appropriate facilities, and the appropriate morale.” — former IURC Chairman Jim Atterholt
The state’s adversarial utility agencies will now share office space.
Lawmakers stepped in last year to slow the growth in property taxes for local units of government, and superintendents are reporting how they are dealing with the change.
“Hey, can I vote with you?” This is the tagline behind a new ad campaign to get younger Hoosiers to the ballot box.
Plus, how the Lindsay Clancy trial could help new mothers struggling with their mental health.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission and Office of Utility Consumer Counselor will soon share office space. Many employees will work remotely. (Photo by Niki Kelly/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
State utility advocate, regulators to share digs
By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz
The Indiana agency representing ratepayers in utility cases is set — before the end of the year — to share office space with the independent arbiter that decides those cases, Energy and Natural Resources Secretary Suzanne Jaworowski has confirmed.
In December, they'll move to newly renovated digs at the Indiana Government Center's north building in downtown Indianapolis, a quarter-mile from their separate offices in the PNC Center.
School buses wait for Indiana students on Aug. 6, 2026. (Photo by Niki Kelly/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Indiana superintendents say they're cutting jobs because of property tax reforms
By Mackenzi Klemann
Dozens of Indiana's public school superintendents say their districts will cut teaching and support staff in the coming years to contend with the financial fallout of property tax reform, according to a new survey from the Indiana Coalition for Public Education.
Other solutions raised in the report are creative: one superintendent said they planted prairie grass instead of mowing to save money on fuel; removed televisions to save on electricity and launched a student-run business to generate new income.
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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is surrounded by the press as he leaves the courthouse earlier this month following the conclusion of deliberations for the sixth day in the trial of Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Clancy pleaded not guilty to murdering her three young children, with her attorneys arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and did not receive adequate mental health care despite seeking treatment and support. (Photo by CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
Lindsay Clancy case could spur legislative action on postpartum depression, psychosis
By Sofia Resnick
The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
But one potential outcome is a state legislative push to boost mental health support for new mothers.
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