Archive for December 2021

Indiana Mayors from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative announced their support for the Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan, announced last Friday at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, DC. The Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan includes more than 15 new actions, including: Collaborating with local, state, and federal partners…

Indianapolis entrepreneur John Thompson was elected the organization’s new chairman through November 2022. Thompson made his way from the tough housing projects of Baltimore to find great success in Indianapolis as the chairman and CEO of four businesses – including Thompson Distribution and First Electric Supply – and as an investor in a variety of…

Dear Editor, President Biden has double standards.  If foreigners want to fly into the U.S., they must prove that they have been vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19 only a few hours before boarding the airplane.  If thousands or millions of unvaccinated illegal aliens want to walk into the U.S., they don’t have to do…

Dear Editor, Democratic Senators Tim Lanane of Anderson and Fady Qaddoura of Indianapolis recently said, “We shouldn’t politicize Hoosiers’ health or lives” referring to HB1001 which supports businesses who give the choice to employees on choosing whether to take the vaccine or not. This bill would protect employees from being forced to take the COVID…

Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) and partners from the Housing Working Group, which represents stakeholders from around the state, today released a housing dashboard that includes a statewide inventory of housing in Indiana. This new dashboard serves as a tool for identifying the greatest housing needs and opportunities…

Most Indiana tax forms for the 2022 Individual Income Tax season are now available online. However, the Indiana Department of Revenue (DOR) is reminding Hoosiers to wait until they receive their official tax documents and statements before filing their 2021 tax return. All employers are required to provide Form W-2’s to employees by Jan. 31,…

Sheridan Public Library will “Read for a Better World” with our Adult Winter Reading Program! The program will run from Jan. 1 to Feb. 28.  Once again, this program will be online. Register now at sheridan.beanstack.org, or on the Beanstack app.  Patrons that have participated in a recent program (Hallo-Read or Grateful Read), have already…

A home in the area of 19498 Hurst Strand Way in Noblesville was shot at on Tuesday morning, luckily the home was empty and the family is safe, but just the day before the same home was reportedly robbed of televisions and videogame systems. The police officers from the Noblesville Police Department (NPD) responded to…

Congresswoman Victoria Spartz hosted a workforce solutions roundtable in partnership with Madison County Chamber of Commerce and the Anderson Impact Center. Speakers from Ascend Indiana, Gaylor Electric, the Hinds Career Center, and the StartEd Up Foundation were joined by business and community leaders discussing best practices and challenges in the local labor markets. Among the…

United States Representatives Victoria Spartz (R-IN-05), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) introduced the National Critical Capabilities Defense Act (NCCDA) to establish a review process that would protect the United States supply chain from foreign adversaries like China and Russia. This legislation would create a whole-of-government screening process for outbound…