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Bill giving police officers authority to order people 25 feet away advances in Senate

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Bill giving police officers authority to order people 25 feet away advances in Senate

  • By Xain Ballenger, TheStatehouseFile.com

A bill that would give police officers the authority to order others to stay 25 feet away from investigation and incident scenes is eligible for a final vote in the Indiana Senate.

Rep. Wendy McNamara, R-Evansville.  Photo provided.

House Bill 1186 was authored by Rep. Wendy McNamara, R-Evansville, and passed through the House, then the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee. It was heard on second reading in the Senate Monday.

The sponsor of the bill, Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, presented an amendment to align the distances that non-police personnel could be kept from both investigation and emergency incident scenes, reducing the 150 feet proposed for emergency incident areas to 25 feet as is proposed for investigation scenes.

However, Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, questioned Freeman, asking why the two have to be treated the same.

Freeman answered that the Indiana Code should be consistent.

“I don’t think our citizens should have to carry around a code book to figure out how they perform their conduct,” Freeman said.

Taylor opposed the amendment, saying it was “counterproductive,” but the amendment was adopted.

A bill dealing with the separation of siblings in child placement unanimously passed the Senate Chamber 49-0. House Bill 1169 is authored by Rep. Donna Schaibley, R-Carmel, and was presented to the Senate by co-sponsor Sen. Kyle Walker, R-Lawrence.

The bill would require the Department of Child Services and courts to consider the placement of siblings together at all times within foster care or trial placement.

The final item of the meeting was House Bill 1557, which relates to “inventory of lost farmland.” Rep. Kendall Culp, R-Rensselaer, authored the bill while Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, was a sponsor and presented the bill to the Senate.

The bill would require the Department of Agriculture to do an inventory covering the years from 2010 to 2022 and identify the primary causes of farmland reduction.

“Agriculture is truly a big business in Indiana, $31 billion every year annually. We are the eighth largest in agricultural exports in our state, and so what this bill is about is making sure that we have a handle on maintaining a fair amount of agricultural land,” Leising said.

It passed 47-2.

FOOTNOTE: Xain Ballenger is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

COVID ORIGIN ACT IS LAW: Hawley/Braun bill to declassify Wuhan lab leak intel signed

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COVID ORIGIN ACT IS LAW: Hawley/Braun bill to declassify Wuhan lab leak intel signed

March 21, 2023

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 from U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), a bill requiring the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origins of the COVID pandemic.

Senators Hawley and Braun’s COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021 passed the Senate unanimously in May 2021.

It passed the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives unanimously earlier this month.

“President Biden made the right choice to sign Senator Josh Hawley’s and my bill to declassify all intel about the Wuhan lab and the origins of COVID. The American people deserve more than spin and ‘the narrative’ – they deserve the facts, and now more are on the way.”

– SENATOR MIKE BRAUN

 

Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners  Meeting Agenda

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AGENDA 

Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners 

March 21, 2023 – 3:00 p.m. 

Room 301, Civic Center Complex 

1. Call to Order 

2. Attendance 

3. Pledge of Allegiance 

    1. 4. Action Items A. Engineer 1. Boonville New Harmony Road Amendment No. 3: Lochmueller Group 
    2. 2. Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Annual Storm Water Report Signature Page 
    4. B. Health Department 1. Data Use Agreement: Purdue University 
    6. C. Computer Services 1. ArchiveSocial Social Media Archiving Subscription 
    9. 5. Department Head Reports 
    10. 6. New Business A. 2023 State of the County Address 1. April 25, 2023 at noon at Bally’s Riverfront Event Center 
    11. 2. Guest’s Lunch: $22.00 
    12. 3. Register Online: evansvillerotary.com/luncheon-registration/ 
    14. B. Foster Care in the U.S. 1. IATT (I Am Tomorrow, Today) House Update 
    16. C. Southwest Indiana Workforce Board 1. Workforce Update 
    19. 7. Old Business 
    20. 8. Consent Items A. Approval of March 7th Board of Commissioners Meeting Minutes 
    21. B. Employment Changes 
        1. C. Auditor 1. Claims Voucher Reports i. March 6, 2023 – March 10, 2023 
        2. ii. March 13, 2023 – March 17, 2023 
        5. D. Treasurer 1. January 2023 Report 
        7. E. County Clerk 1. February 2023 Report 
        9. F. Engineer 1. Report & Claims 
        11. G. Commissioners’ Office Travel Request 
        12. H. Appropriation Requests 1. Riverboat 

Drainage Board Immediately Following 

    1. 2. Superintendent of County Buildings 
    3. I. Letter to Mayor of Evansville: Evansville-Vanderburgh County Building Commission 03.14.2023 
    4. J. Letter from Mayor of Evansville: Evansville-Vanderburgh County Building Commission 03.14.2023 
    5. A. First Reading of Rezoning Ordinance VC-3-2023 

9. Public Comment 

10. Rezoning 

Petitioner: University Shopping Center 

Address: 4595 W. Lloyd Expressway 

Request: Change from C-2 to M-1 with UDC 

11. 2023 Road Hearing 

12. Adjournment 

Renowned USI composes and performer Tom Drury to perform free recital

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Renowned USI composes and performer Tom Drury to perform a free recital

March 21, 2023

Tom Drury, Instructor of Music and acclaimed composer and performer, will showcase his talents at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 in the University of Southern Indiana Performance Center. The recital, open to the public at no charge, will feature a collection of Drury’s own compositions, including The Bells, Broken Dreams, Sonatina for clarinet and piano and Teasdale Songs.

The Bells, inspired by the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, and Broken Dreams, inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats, are among Drury’s most celebrated works. The Sonatina for clarinet and piano has been performed in various venues across the country, including at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2012.

The recital will also feature talented performers, including Kirsten Ahnell on clarinet, Andrea Drury, soprano and Cheruvathur Uthup, baritone. Andrea Drury, Tom Drury’s wife, will perform The Bells and Teasdale Songs, both of which were written specifically for her. Andrea has performed both pieces locally, and The Bells regionally in Illinois.

“I am thrilled to perform my compositions in front of a live audience,” says Drury. “These pieces hold a special place in my heart, and I am excited to share them with the community.”

For more information, email Drury or call 812-492-7502.

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Founded in 1965, the University of Southern Indiana enrolls nearly 9,200 dual credit, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in more than 130 areas of study. A public higher education institution, located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, Indiana, USI offers programs through the College of Liberal Arts, Romain College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education. The University offers study-abroad opportunities in more than 60 countries and hosts international students from around the globe. USI is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engaged University and offers continuing education and special programs to more than 15,000 participants annually through Outreach and Engagement. USI is online at USI.edu. 

 

USI GWEP presents “Rural Roadshow” with dementia expert Teepa Snow

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USI GWEP presents “Rural Roadshow” with dementia expert Teepa Snow

March 20, 202

The University of Southern Indiana Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) is hosting free workshops for both family caregivers and direct care providers in rural areas of southwest Indiana on Wednesday and Thursday, April 12-13. The education is the result of a collaboration with Teepa Snow and her company, Positive Approach® to Care (PAC), to improve the lives of people living with dementia and transform the culture of dementia care.

Snow, an occupational therapist from North Carolina, developed the PAC training model to support a skills-based approach to dementia education. She shares new information in a manner that anyone connected to dementia can understand brain change and ways to offer support.

Dr. Katie Ehlman, Professor of Gerontology and GWEP Director, said USI began a partnership with Snow and her team in 2013 when Snow was a keynote presenter at USI’s annual Mid-America Institute on Aging and Wellness. “Through the GWEP, USI is committed to reaching rural communities in southwest Indiana in efforts to provide education about brain change and reduce stigma about dementia,” says Ehlman. “It’s an honor to be working with Teepa Snow and our community partners throughout Indiana in supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers.”

The two-hour sessions have been dubbed “Teepa’s Rural Roadshow,” and the goal is to decode the changes that occur in a person living with dementia to optimize positive interactions and support family members, friends and neighbors.

Below is the Roadshow schedule:

Vincennes
9:30-11:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, April 12
Green Activities Center, Vincennes University, 1002 N 1st Street

Petersburg
2:30-4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, April 12
Petersburg Community Church, 420 E Illinois Street

Rockport
9:30-11:30 a.m. CT Thursday, April 13
Trinity United Methodist Church, 124 S 5th Street

In 2019, USI received a five-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to implement the GWEP. The learning opportunities with Snow are one aspect of the GWEP, which is also focused on creating dementia friendly communities in Petersburg, Rockport, Tell City and Evansville and integrating geriatrics into primary care.

To register for the dementia workshops, visit USI.edu/gwep/roadshow.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3,691,706 million with zero percentage financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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Founded in 1965, the University of Southern Indiana enrolls nearly 9,200 dual credit, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in more than 130 areas of study. A public higher education institution, located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, Indiana, USI offers programs through the College of Liberal Arts, Romain College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Pott College of Science, Engineering, and Education. The University offers study-abroad opportunities in more than 60 countries and hosts international students from around the globe. USI is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engaged University and offers continuing education and special programs to more than 15,000 participants annually through Outreach and Engagement. USI is online at USI.edu. 

 

 

Vincennes University earns 2023-2024 Military Friendly ® School Silver ranking

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Vincennes University earns 2023-2024 Military Friendly ® School Silver ranking
VINCENNES, Ind., March 20, 2023 – Vincennes University is proud to be a military-friendly school with a longstanding commitment to supporting our nation’s service members and veterans. VU has once again been named a Military Friendly® School and is the only large public institution in Indiana that has received a Silver ranking for 2023-24 by Viqtory, which recognizes the efforts of schools that provide exceptional support to military students and their families.

VU understands the unique challenges military students face when transitioning from active duty to civilian life or balancing their military obligations with their academic pursuits. The University offers a wide range of services and resources to support military and veteran students throughout their educational journey. For more information about VU’s Military Education Program, explore www. vinu.edu/web/military

Institutions earning the Military Friendly ® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2023-2024 survey with 665 earning special awards for going above the standard.

According to Vice-President of Workforce Development and Community Services David Tucker, “VU is dedicated to offering high-quality educational options to military personnel and veterans as they achieve their career and educational goals. VU helps ensure that our military and veteran students can pursue their academic goals without stress or hardship and have access to a first-rate education customized to fit their needs. VU is proud to provide academic excellence to the men and women who have given so much to our country.”

VU is a military-friendly school because it offers flexible learning options that accommodate the unique needs of military students, fosters a supportive and welcoming environment, waives application fees for military personnel, awards credits for military service, has a dedicated military and veterans affairs office with a multifaceted range of support services, such as academic advising, career counseling and assistance with GI bill benefits and financial aid.

The University also provides additional support and resources to veterans and military students through established partnerships with employers and local military organizations.

The 2023-2024 Military Friendly® Schools list will be published in the May and October issue of G.I. Jobs magazine and are available at www.militaryfriendly.com.

VU is deeply committed to being a military-friendly school as it works to build a more diverse and inclusive community that values the unique contributions and experiences of our military and veteran students.# # #

About Vincennes University – Indiana’s First College

VU is state-supported with campuses in Vincennes and Jasper, the Aviation Technology Center and American Sign Language program in Indianapolis, Early College Career and Technical Education Centers, and additional sites such as the Gene Haas Training and Education Center in Lebanon, the Logistics Training and Education Center in Plainfield, and the Gibson County Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics in Fort Branch. VU offers online degrees and classes to students who need access to college courses and flexibility through its Distance Education.

A leader in dual credit and career and technical education statewide, VU also offers instruction at military sites throughout the nation.

In addition to offering a wide range of associate degree and certificate programs, VU also offers bachelor’s degree programs in technology, homeland security, nursing, health care services administration, secondary education programs in mathematics and science, and special education/elementary education.

VU enrolls students from throughout Indiana, 35 other states, and 21 other countries. Tuition and fees are the lowest among Indiana campuses with residence halls. VU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Founded in 1801, VU is Indiana’s first college and is the only college in the nation founded by an individual who would later become President of the United States. William Henry Harrison, the ninth U.S. President, founded VU while serving as governor of the Indiana Territory. More information is available at www.vinu.edu.

‘Lewis and Clark’ Presented by Matt Alschbach Today at Willard Library

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