Lost Tax Revenue Keep Local Indiana Budgets Tight
IU experts say the recent tax cap and the end of the toll road lease will keep local city and county budgets on the edge for at least a few years.
View ArticleCommittee Recommends Counties Make Mass Transit Decisions
A study panel voted 12-1 to leave it up to the counties whether to build light rail or stick to expanding bus service.
View ArticleMadison County Requests Needle Exchange Program
Madison County is requesting approval for a needle-exchange program to prevent an HIV epidemic like the one that’s infected nearly 170 people in Scott County.
View ArticleState Declares Public Health Emergency In Madison County
The emergency declaration will allow the county to set up a syringe exchange aimed at mitigating the spread of Hepatitis C.
View ArticleMadison Co. Needle Exchange Aims To Balance Trust, Awareness
No one showed up to Madison County's first needle exchange clinic aimed at preventing an HIV outbreak.
View ArticleAs Special Education Program Shuts, E. Hancock Looks Ahead
HMSES, a co-op between schools in Hancock, Madison and Shelby Counties, provides special education services across districts.
View ArticleMadison County Officials To Look At Transit System Plans
Officials in Madison County want to study plans for a mass transit system that would run into Indianapolis.
View ArticleOpposition Could Force Madison County Needle Exchange To Close
Critics of Madison County’s exchange say money that currently goes to buying needles would be better spent on treatment and education.
View ArticleCentral Indiana County Debates Continuing Needle Exchange
A Madison County Council member is pushing an ordinance that would effectively end the county's two-year-old program.
View ArticleMadison County Bars Funding For Needle Exchange Program
Officials in a central Indiana county have effectively ended its needle exchange program by cutting off funding for the two-year-old program.
View ArticleNonprofit Group May Resume Indiana County’s Needle Exchange
The Madison County Health Department's attempt follows the County Council's August vote to prohibit county funds or donations from supporting the program.
View ArticleAnderson Resident Wants County Officials To Pay Their Legal Bills
A central Indiana man wants county officials to pay the legal bills opponents of a proposed landfill incurred in their decades-long battle against the project.
View ArticlePlans For Madison Statue Stalled By Slave-Owning Concerns
Plans to erect a statue of President James Madison outside a courthouse in a central Indiana county have stalled amid concerns about his ownership of slaves.
View ArticleGroup In Talks To Take Over Madison County’s Needle Exchange
A not-for-profit group is negotiating to take over the Madison County needle exchange program.
View ArticleMadison County Considers Needle Exchange Program Contract
Commissioners in a central Indiana county that ended its needle exchange last year are expected to soon consider allowing a local behavioral health system to resume the program.
View ArticleMadison County Officials Approve Needle Exchange Resumption
Madison County Commissionershave decided to allow a behavioral health system to restart its needle exchange, which ended last year.
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