Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were launched into space in June 2024 on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. However, technical problems developed on their Boeing Starliner capsule. NASA ultimately kept them on the International Space Station (ISS) and returned that capsule without a crew.
It’s the end of March. The Indiana General Assembly will finalize its two-year budget by the end of April. Public input is needed now (while discussions are still taking place) to protect the financial well-being of public schools.
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter should drop the charges against him without delay. Not only would it save taxpayers money, it would send a message that, no matter what’s going on at the national level, Lake County still values press freedom and transparency, and will safeguard the public’s right to know during these troubled times.
We also know Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around; hundreds of millions of people around the world have seen the videos and won’t be gaslit, despite Trump’s shameless lies.
Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which cover shared resources like buildings, utility bills, computer networks, and support staff. Indiana will lose $69 million this year in critical research funding due to those cuts, devastating science infrastructure across the state. With even deeper science cuts proposed, the future of science is at risk in Indiana, along with the jobs, medical advances, and economic growth it drives.
House Bill 1007 and Senate Bills 423 and 424 would use Indiana’s electric customers as the majority financers of dubious, multibillion-dollar nuclear power schemes called small modular reactors (SMRs).
LGBTQ+ youth need the support of their societies, peers, parents, schools, and physicians. Unfortunately, state law ties my hands – and those of my colleagues – from helping young transgender people receive life-saving health care.
Instead of seceding and forming a 51st state, we think these Illinois counties should join us in Indiana.
For journalists, critics, and Americans of honor, the price of speaking up will be high and uncomfortable, as high and uncomfortable as looking over the fence at the neighbor’s incessantly barking dog, recognizing his desperation, and resolving to help him. But the price of not speaking up, for you, for the dog, and for the nation, will be even higher.
As horrific as sending a craven felon to the White House is, U.S. voters fell in line with the same global upset displayed by voters around the world.