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Gannett Announces New Cuts Including Mandatory Unpaid Leave And Buyouts That Directly Affect INDY STAR AND EVANSVILLE COURIER And Press Employees

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INDY STAR AND EVANSVILLE COURIER AND PRESS EMPLOYEES DIRECTLY AFFECTED

Gannett also will pause overall hiring and temporarily suspend matching 401(k) contributions.

 

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
By:
October 12, 2022

UPDATED: Oct. 13, 2022

Gannett will be requiring employees to take one week of unpaid leave in December and is seeking volunteers for buyouts, CEO Mike Reed announced in a staff-wide emailWednesday.

The company also has paused overall hiring and will temporarily suspend matching contributions to employee 401(k) accounts starting Oct. 24. The email, which was sent companywide though some staff said they didn’t receive a copy, came two months after Gannett laid off 400 employees and eliminated 400 open positions in response to a bleak second quarter.

“These are truly challenging times,” Reed wrote. “The company continues to face headwinds and uncertainty from the deteriorating macroeconomic environment which has led the executive team to take further immediate action.”

Gannett, which is the nation’s largest newspaper chain with more than 200 print papers, has struggled significantly in recent years. In its most recent financial report, Gannett reported it lost $54 million during the second quarter. Its shares have since plummeted, continuing a downward trend. Gannett stock is now trading at $1.40, down 77% over the past year.

The company also is saddled with more than $1 billion in debt from its merger with GateHouse in 2019. Earlier this month, Gannett reported it had paid down $55 million of that debt since June 30. It also will be selling $65 million to $75 million in real estate and other assets.

Early Wednesday afternoon, Gannett released a set of FAQs about the new cost-cutting measures, but some details remain uncertain. The company did not specify when it would resume matching contributions to 401(k) accounts or how many buyouts it is seeking. (Gannett later made the FAQ guides private, only available to employees.)

Gannett also will be allowing employees to voluntarily reduce their work hours or request an unpaid sabbatical.

It is unclear who will be impacted by the changes. Reed’s email included a disclaimer stating that the cuts may not apply to unionized employees. Roughly 1,500 employees across 50 newsrooms are represented by the NewsGuild.

NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss tweeted that many of the changes will not immediately impact those employees.

“Folks bargaining first contracts are protected by status quo and the company cannot unilaterally make changes without negotiating with workers,” Schleuss wrote. “For folks under a contract, it depends on what your contract says and most of the issues need to be bargained. The company said it plans to bring up these cuts in negotiations.”

Gannett has cut its staff considerably since the 2019 merger. At the time, the two companies had roughly 25,000 employees. By the end of 2021, that number had shrunk to 13,800 in the U.S. and 2,500 abroad.

Many of those cuts came from layoffs and buyouts. Others came from shifts in newspaper ownership. Since 2020, Gannett has sold more than 100 newspapers and reportedly plans to sell at least 60 more of its nearly 500 publications.

FOOTNOTE:  Angela Fu is a reporter for Poynter. She can be reached at afu@poynter.org or on Twitter @angelanfu.  Angela Fu

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LETTER TO EDITOR: Local Republican Candidates O’Brien And Ledbetter Declined Invitations To Debate

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LETTER TO EDITOR: Local Republican Candidates O’Brien And Ledbetter Declined Invitations To Debate

by Kaitie Rector

October 15, 2022

Voters need to hold Republican candidates, and Indiana GOP leadership, accountable for their failure to participate fairly in the democratic process. Public debate and appearance in a public forum is a cornerstone of democracy.

Posted below are Republican candidates who have declined the invitations to such opportunities:

71% Of State Senate Republican Candidates Surveyed:

Dan Dernulc (SD 1)

Jeff Larson (SD 11)

James Buck (SD 21)

Spencer Deery (SD 23)

Mike Gaskill (SD 25)

Scott Alexander (SD 26)

Alex Choi (SD 29)

Kyle Walker (SD 31)

Gary Byrne (SD 47)

Mark Messmer (SD 48)

75% of State Representative Republican Candidates Surveyed:

Dale DeVon (HD 5)

Jake Teshka (HD 7)

Julie Olthoff (HD 19)

Donna Schaibley (HD 24)

Fred Glynn (HD 32)

JD Prescott (HD 33)

Dale Basham (HD 34)

Elizabeth Rowray (HD 35)

Gerald Torr (HD 39)

Mark Genda (HD 41)

Alan Morrison (HD 42)

Bob Heaton (HD 46)

Joanna King (HD 49)

Dave Hall (HD 62)

Edward Clere (HD 72)

Jennifer Meltzer (HD 73)

Cindy Ledbetter (HD 75)

Tim O’Brien (HD 78)

Martin Carbaugh (HD 81)

David Jones (HD 82)

Chris Jeter (HD 88)

100% Of State Representative Republican Candidates Surveyed:

Rudy Yakym (2nd)

Jim Banks (3rd)

Victoria Spartz (5th)

Greg Pence (6th)

Larry Bucshon (8th)

Erin Houchin (9th)

FOOTNOTE: Not AbleTo to Confirm If The Candidate Was A No-Show.

Sincerely,

Kaitie Rector

Evansville, Ind.

FOOTNOTE: This letter was posted without bias or opinion or editing.

Flowers On The Lake Annual Ceremony To Commemorate Lives Lost To Domestic Violence

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Flowers On The Lake Annual Ceremony To Commemorate Lives Lost To Domestic Violence

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The University of Southern Indiana’s Sexual Assault and Gender Violence Prevention Committee will host the annual Flowers on the Lake ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 18 in front of the Liberal Arts Center. The ceremony, held in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, is open to the public at no charge.

Flowers on the Lake is an annual ceremony to honor those who have lost their lives to domestic violence and raise awareness about the warning signs of relationship abuse. Students will speak during a brief presentation about lives that have been lost as a result of domestic violence, which will be followed by a moment of silence. Guests will then proceed to Reflection Lake to scatter flower petals on top of the water in honor of survivors and in memory of victims of domestic violence.

“Through this annual event, we hope to raise awareness of the warning signs of abusive relationships and share the importance of connecting to the many resources that exist on campus and in the community for help,” says Catherine Champagne, Assistant Program Director for Student Wellness.

This event is sponsored by the USI Sexual Assault & Gender Violence Prevention Group and Albion Fellows Bacon Center.

In the event of rain, the event will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 20 at the same location. For more information, contact Champagne at cchampagne@usi.edu or 812-461-5483.

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Another Morning Cup Of Coffee News A Little Of This and That

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Another Morning Cup Of Coffee News A Little Of This and That

By Dannie McIntire

OCTOBER 15, 2022

There Is So Much Good News This Morning I Don’t Know Where To Start.

Our country continues to benefit from the massive pandemic American Rescue Plan funds the democrats passed back in 2021.

The city of Chicago, apparently flush with our federal ARP tax dollars, is implementing a “Guaranteed Income Pilot Program”. The city is awarding 3,250 eligible applicants with $500 of your federal tax dollars each month for two years. Now I’m not that proficient at math so I got out my calculator, that’s $39 million dollars over two years. 

What struck me as the most absurd part of this money give away is that applicants will not be required to provide information to verify their citizenship or immigration status?

The City of Denver is using $2 million of your Covid-1p ARP tax dollars to implement a program which will give more than 140 folks up to $1,000 a month in cash for a year as a basic income program. 

I can’t believe why our national leaders didn’t discover all this “free money” when I was younger and raising a family, oh wait, back in those days there was this thing called “personal responsibility”. 

It’s time for another cup of coffee.

If you wonder why the state of our educational systems nationwide is on the decline the next tidbits offer a partial explanation. 

Recently all but one student at the University Of Southern Maine walked out of their class demanding that the professor be dismissed for stating only two sexes exist. Well I can certainly understand their horror over hearing such a statement’ “oh I identify as a “it” and I’m too offended to attend this class any longer unless you fire the teacher”.

The University of New York, recently fired an award-winning professor of organic chemistry, after his students submitted a petition to the university In which they blamed their poor grades on his class being too hard. A quote from the their petition, “”We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class.”

Now is it possibly just me, but I’m thinking it’s possible that many of the students were auto-passed through their earlier education and were shocked to find they were expected to study to achieve a passing grade. 

Goodness, time to brew a fresh pot of coffee.

Wegmans, a supermarket chain which has 109 stores, announced that they are discontinuing their phone scan app which allowed their customers to scan, bag their items as they shopped, click pay when finished and walk out the door. Wegmans cited “losses” as the reason for ending use of the scan app.

Now I have to think a good sum of money was spent by Wegmans to develop and initiate usage of the app in their stores. I dislike being such a doomsayer, but in today’s society, I could have saved them a bunch of money and told them it’s not going to work.

Read the headlines, we have folks entering stores with empty garbage bags, filling them, walking out, and no effort is made to stop them. Heck, why even bother with a self scan, grab and go phone app.

Goodness Dannie, get another cup of coffee and on to another subject. 

What else is in the recent news that causes me to scratch my head? The city of St. Louis is preparing to sue Hyundai and Kia over the number of car thefts in their city involving some models of their vehicles. 

Apparently, city officials believe the two auto manufacturers are at fault due to a “effect” which allegedly makes their models manufactured before 2021 more prone to being stolen.

From a letter written by the St. Louis City Counselor Shenna Hamilton to Hyundai and Kia; “”With this letter, the city demands that Kia and Hyundai mitigate the defective conditions providing thieves – including teenagers as young as 13 – the instrumentalities by which they are destroying property, endangering city drivers and themselves, and, in some cases, committing violent felonies”.

Gee, don’t blame our kids and career criminals for stealing vehicles because it has to be someone else’s fault.

I remember the old phrase, “if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime”.  Perhaps St Louis and other similar thinking cities should post this welcoming sign at their city limits’ “Welcome To Our City We Look The Other Way Because It’s Not Your Fault”. Give me a break!

A fresh cup of coffee, I’ll finish today’s column with a feel good item involving one of Evansville’s local businesses. 

Have you ever heard of the “Buddy Bench” program? It’s a very simple idea; benches are placed, most often at schools near their play areas. The schools personnel and students are told of its purpose; if a child is feeling conflicted about something going on in their life, maybe they are being bullied, trouble at home, or they simply are in need someone to listen. A child can sit on the bench as a signal they need someone to talk to.  

It’s a great program that a local Evansville business, “Green Tree Plastics”, participates in. They make the “Buddy Benches” out of re-cycled plastic caps and lids. Sponsoring organizations collect the plastic caps/lids and pay Green Tree Plastics to manufacture the bench. It takes 100 lbs of plastic caps/lids to manufacture a “Buddy Bench”.

A big thank you to a local Evansville company, Green Tree Plastics! 

Celebration Of The Evansville Retired Teachers Association 60th Anniversary

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The Evansville Retired Teachers Association will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Evansville Chapter on October 13, 2022 with a luncheon at the Embrace Church at 6300 Washington Ave. Evansville, IN at 12:00 p.m. with a program featuring our historian and comments from our past presidents beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the church sanctuary.  In celebration of the anniversary, Mayor Winnecke will present a Proclamation at 1:45 p.m. to proclaim October 13, 2022 Evansville Retired Teachers Day.

At the October 13, 2022 luncheon, and meeting, we will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Evansville Retired Teachers Association. The Evansville chapter was recently honored at the Indiana Retired Teachers Association as one of the oldest chapters in the state.  In October, 1962, a group of EVSC teachers in Evansville initially formed a Retired Teacher social group to renew friendships of their teaching years.  In 2010, the Retired Teachers group voted to join the Indiana Retired Teachers Association (IRTA) and the name of the organization became Evansville Retired Teachers Association (ERTA) located in Region 9.  After humble beginnings sixty years ago, we continue to meet regularly and we serve our community with many hours of volunteer work.  At 1:45 p.m., Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will attend the program and present a proclamation to highlight the work of ERTA and designate October 13, 2022 as Evansville Retired Teachers Day.

The  Evansville Retired Teachers website and our The Evansville Retired Teachers Facebook page provides examples of our programs and our work in the community.

The Evansville Retired Teachers Association (ERTA) is a vital educational organization of 298 active retired teachers who selflessly give of their time and financial resources to various non-profit community organizations such as Teacher Locker, Frog Follies, Tri-State Food Bank, Hangers, and the Salvation Army Stuff the Bus initiative.    ERTA meets five times during the school year with a luncheon and program featuring such speakers as U of E Coach David Ragland, Bill Bussing – Otters Baseball, the Evansville Wartime Museum, and annual visits from high school choirs.

 

AFFIRMATION, FINALLY

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AFFIRMATION, FINALLY

GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine

OCTOBER 15, 2022

I wrote the first of my over 900 “Gavel Gamut” columns in 1990 at the request of my friend, Jim Kohlmeyer. Jim was the Posey County, Indiana Republican Party Chairman and the owner of the New Harmony Times newspaper (now The Posey County News owned by my friend, Dave Pearce).

Jim had recently purchased the paper and was desperate for filler. He asked me, the Democrat, elected, Posey County Circuit Court Judge, to write a column about “legal topics.” Jim did not care what I wrote. Since 1990 and every week since April of 2005, I have written about topics from local heroes to national issues as I saw fit. As those of you, Gentle Readers, will note, in several of my burnt offerings my wife, Peg, had to bear the brunt of my ramblings. However, most of “Gavel Gamut” has dealt with legal topics. A major theme has been the legal system, particularly judges. The federal courts and especially the United States Supreme Court have been the recipients of my chagrin over these thirty-two years during all of which I have served and am still serving as a judge myself. Although after thirty-eight years on the Bench as a partisan-elected judge I term-limited myself and now serve in other judicial venues, such as the Country of Georgia and the National Judicial College.

As I have written numerous times, my belief is that our American democracy is in danger from non-elected, life-tenured judges. I have stated this position frequently and I hold to it firmly.

However, even though I have often expected returning brickbats from those who champion appointing judges and granting them life tenure, almost nobody has seemed to ever take umbrage from or stated their agreement with my position until October 3, 2022

Then, voila, along came that great journalist and philosopher, Fareed Zakaria whose excellent Sunday morning CNN show, GPS The Global Public Square, is the only national news program I find to contain news. On October 3, 2022, at 8:00 p.m. Fareed aired his special, “Supreme Power, Inside the Highest Court in the Land.”

Now, Gentle Readers, I am not claiming, although I wish I could, that Dr. Zakaria has ever heard of, much less been influenced by my analysis on any subject. However, his special clearly stated one of the greatest current dangers to our democracy is life-tenured members of the U.S. Supreme Court and the totally politicized method of their selection process.

Let me say this about that (as President John F. Kennedy used to say), AMEN, brother Fareed!

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Gannett Announces New Cuts Including Mandatory Unpaid Leave And BuyoutsThat Effect Indy Star And Evansville Courier And Press VANSVILLE COURIER

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INDY STAR AND EVANSVILLE COURIER AND PRESS EMPLOYEES DIRECTLY AFFECTED

Gannett also will pause overall hiring and temporarily suspend matching 401(k) contributions.

 

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
By:
October 12, 2022

UPDATED: Oct. 13, 2022

Gannett will be requiring employees to take one week of unpaid leave in December and is seeking volunteers for buyouts, CEO Mike Reed announced in a staff-wide emailWednesday.

The company also has paused overall hiring and will temporarily suspend matching contributions to employee 401(k) accounts starting Oct. 24. The email, which was sent companywide though some staff said they didn’t receive a copy, came two months after Gannett laid off 400 employees and eliminated 400 open positions in response to a bleak second quarter.

“These are truly challenging times,” Reed wrote. “The company continues to face headwinds and uncertainty from the deteriorating macroeconomic environment which has led the executive team to take further immediate action.”

Gannett, which is the nation’s largest newspaper chain with more than 200 print papers, has struggled significantly in recent years. In its most recent financial report, Gannett reported it lost $54 million during the second quarter. Its shares have since plummeted, continuing a downward trend. Gannett stock is now trading at $1.40, down 77% over the past year.

The company also is saddled with more than $1 billion in debt from its merger with GateHouse in 2019. Earlier this month, Gannett reported it had paid down $55 million of that debt since June 30. It also will be selling $65 million to $75 million in real estate and other assets.

Early Wednesday afternoon, Gannett released a set of FAQs about the new cost-cutting measures, but some details remain uncertain. The company did not specify when it would resume matching contributions to 401(k) accounts or how many buyouts it is seeking. (Gannett later made the FAQ guides private, only available to employees.)

Gannett also will be allowing employees to voluntarily reduce their work hours or request an unpaid sabbatical.

It is unclear who will be impacted by the changes. Reed’s email included a disclaimer stating that the cuts may not apply to unionized employees. Roughly 1,500 employees across 50 newsrooms are represented by the NewsGuild.

NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss tweeted that many of the changes will not immediately impact those employees.

“Folks bargaining first contracts are protected by status quo and the company cannot unilaterally make changes without negotiating with workers,” Schleuss wrote. “For folks under a contract, it depends on what your contract says and most of the issues need to be bargained. The company said it plans to bring up these cuts in negotiations.”

Gannett has cut its staff considerably since the 2019 merger. At the time, the two companies had roughly 25,000 employees. By the end of 2021, that number had shrunk to 13,800 in the U.S. and 2,500 abroad.

Many of those cuts came from layoffs and buyouts. Others came from shifts in newspaper ownership. Since 2020, Gannett has sold more than 100 newspapers and reportedly plans to sell at least 60 more of its nearly 500 publications.

FOOTNOTE:  Angela Fu is a reporter for Poynter. She can be reached at afu@poynter.org or on Twitter @angelanfu.  Angela Fu

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Senator Braun Completes 4th Annual 92 County Tour

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Senator Braun Completes 4th Annual 92 County Tour

JASPER, Ind. — This week, Senator Braun completed his 4th annual 92 County Tour.

The final stop of the 2022 tour was at Lakeview Orchards in Spencer County.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Senator Braun has fulfilled his promise to visit every county in Indiana.

“There is no better way to hear directly from Hoosiers than visiting every corner of the Hoosier state. Many Hoosiers don’t recall the last time a sitting U.S. Senator visited their county, so when I was elected I pledged to visit every county, every year.

“I’m proud to announce that I’ve completed the 92 County Tour for the fourth year in a row. As I travel the state, I hear from people who are rightfully frustrated to see their concerns ignored by career politicians in Washington. For the past year, families have been paying more and getting less. Inflation isn’t just pinching families, it’s hurting the small businesses that employ nearly half of Hoosiers in Indiana. 

“I’m one of the few Senators in D.C. who has actually run a business. For the first 20 years I built my business in my hometown, we only had 15 employees. I know that every dollar counts. That is why I recently introduced The Braun Budget, a balanced federal budget designed to fight inflation and curb excessive government spending.

“The federal government should not be burdening Americans with insurmountable debt and high living costs, it should be making it easier for people to prosper and achieve the American Dream.” – Senator Mike Braun

Read more about the highlights from his visits to family farms, small businesses and community roundtables below.

Senator Braun’s Video Message on Completing 92 County Tour 2022:

Watch on YouTube | Download here

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SENATOR BRAUN’S 2022 92 COUNTY TOUR

JULY 7 — Senator Braun visited with local veterans in Bedford on Wednesday afternoon. 

“If we don’t know the issues veterans are facing, we won’t know how to help,” Senator Braun said. 

APRIL 20 — United States Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) visited the Waelz Sustainable Products facility in Cass County on April 20 as part of his tour of all 92 Indiana counties.

The freshman senator, who hails from Jasper, Indiana and has heralded numerous bills through Congress since his term began in 2019, said he is unsure where his political aspirations will lead him next. He did not, however, rule out another term or a future run for Indiana governor.

Braun took time to answer five questions about his goals and plans for the remainder of his term.

MARCH 7 — BROWNSTOWN — Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., paid Jackson County a visit on Friday as part of a pledge when he was elected in 2018 that he would visit all 92 Hoosier counties.

Braun met with seven members of the community at Kay’s Kafe in Brownstown.

He is a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for the U.S. Senate and is Indiana’s junior U.S. senator. Todd Young serves as the state’s senior U.S. senator.

Braun said he hasn’t been working on a lot of legislation lately due to other issues in the country.

“Sadly, there hasn’t been a lot of legislation other than trying to do things to rein in the government that has gotten so out of hand in my mind in terms of how it’s wanting to tax and spend and grow the government … a lot of it is based on fighting COVID,” Braun said.

Regarding the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Braun felt federal efforts were lackluster.

“We found that a lot of what we did do didn’t have as much impact as it should have,” he said. “We now know a lot more about the disease, and it doesn’t, I think, mean the federal government should be solely in charge of what we do, and we need to turn our attention otherwise.”

U.S. Senator Mike Braun, R-Indiana, made an appearance with state Senator Stacey Donato, R-Logansport, in Cass County on Wednesday to tour Waelz Sustainable Products ahead of the upcoming primary elections.

“It was fantastic,” WSP Plant Manager Mike Englert said. “Any time we get to have folks come visit and learn about our facility, I think that’s a great thing. We were excited to have them.”

Braun toured the factory and discussed rural America and industry’s role in farming communities with WSP employees.

Englert said Braun’s team was interested in visiting new facilities in the area when planning the tour, and it made sense to visit WSP since it is one of the newest industries in Cass County.

“For us, it’s a sense of pride,” Englert said. “Everybody here is working very hard, and any chance we get to show off what we have, that’s a really good thing.”

The event was a brief stop on Braun’s tour of all 92 Indiana counties. He said it takes careful planning to visit every county, but it is important to see his constituents and get out into the community.

APRIL 26 — AUBURN — Before returning to Washington, Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, made a swing through Northeast Indiana to cap off his trip home to the Hoosier State.

Braun was in Angola on April 21 for the GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner before stopping in Ashley on April 22 to tour the Brightmark facility. After a brief tour of the plastics recycling facility, it was off to Noble County and a stop at Airframe Components in Kendallville, before a roundtable discussion with Whitley County government and business leaders. The senator ended his day in Wabash.

Braun visited the plant on an off-day for employees as the plastics’ recycler celebrated Earth Day.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – Indiana Sen. Mike Braun made a stop in South Bend on Thursday as part of his annual “92 County Tour” across the Hoosier state.

Braun met with the Notre Dame College Republicans to discuss his work in the Senate and answer their questions.

Afterwards, he took questions on several different topics from the media. One of those topics was the ongoing the war in Ukraine.

“I think they are gathering to maybe make sure they control the eastern part of Ukraine and down around Crimea,” Braun said. “And I’m a believer now that stay out of getting entangled with any of our own soldiers on the ground. But between us and NATO, the resources are almost 20-to-1, if not closer to 25-to-1, over the Russian resources.”

He also commented on student loan relief as federal student loan debt passed $1.6 trillion dollars.

“I think there’s a lot schools can do to lower costs, to keep debt lower. When it comes to forgiving, uh I think that’s a slippery slope because it may help those that are thinking they may not need it. A lot of debt is probably held by families that have fairly decent incomes. That’s complicated,” Braun said. “We need to solve the root source of the problem and that is get colleges to run a more efficient enterprise and do the hard things in life that probably don’t need the federal government, it needs institutions to get together.”

At the end of this week, Braun will be close to visiting half of the 92 counties in Indiana.

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. — Sen. Mike Braun plans 2022 visits to all 92 Indiana counties.

Tuesday was Wayne County’s turn.

Braun, a Republican from Greenwood, met with teachers and school administrators at Northeastern Wayne Schools. The stop was one of 17 he’ll make this week to southeastern and East Central Indiana counties.

“I always learn a lot when I visit Hoosier schools on my 92 County Tour,” Braun said in a news release. “Today I spoke with teachers and administrators at Northeastern Wayne Schools in Wayne County to hear about the challenges rural schools face and how they’re dealing with them.”

GREENSBURG — U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-Indiana) made a stop by KOVA Fertilizer Tuesday morning to meet with a small group of constituents and get their feedback on various issues.

AUGUST 17 — 26 miles of double railroad tracks are being installed between Michigan City and Gary.

It’s a project designed to not only speed up but increase the amount of travel passenger travel by South Shore.

Senator Mike Braun (R) said he helped with the original planning of the project, so he wanted to see what it looked like in person.

As part of his tour of every county in Indiana, Senator Braun spent an hour asking project managers questions about the double track’s future.

“I wanted to learn what they expect to get marginally after this big investment. To me it sounds like it makes sense because there is so many jobs in Chicago. The hardest thing about getting to take advantage of it is how you get there and how much time it takes,” said Braun.

But Braun also says seeing it in person, he can envision the economic promise the double tracks could provide.

In Indianapolis during his 92 County Tour, Senator Braun stopped in to WIBC’s Hammer & Nigel Show to discuss what he’s learned on this year’s tour, why he’s against President Biden’s student debt transfer to Americans without college degrees, and to see how many Indiana counties he can name in 30 seconds.

Arts Commission Seeks Applications From Artists For Business Training Workshop, Fellowship 

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Arts Commission Seeks Applications From Artists For Business Training Workshop, Fellowship

OCTIBER 14, 2022

(INDIANAPOLIS) The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) is now accepting applications for the 2023 On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program. On-Ramp is a program for artists and creative entrepreneurs seeking training and resources around establishing or supporting an arts-based business in Indiana. 

Designed by Elaine Grogan Luttrull of Minerva Financial Arts, On-Ramp focuses on ten key business concepts for a successful creative career including defining value, business structure, identifying and marketing to customers, pricing strategy, marketing strategy, managing expenses and generating revenue, taxes, and planning. 

The On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator is comprised of a three-day in-person intensive entrepreneurship and community engagement workshop and the opportunity to apply for up to $2,000 in fellowship funding to put the training into action. The 2023 On-Ramp workshop will be May 10-12, 2023, in Columbus, Indiana.  

Based upon survey results from previous cohorts, On-Ramp alumni are consistently more confident in their ability to pursue a creative career in Indiana, more knowledgeable about the key business areas of focus, and more likely to take action in their careers following participation in the workshop.  

“Indiana’s creative economy is fueled by entrepreneurs,” said Miah Michaelsen, IAC Executive Director. “Each year, the On-Ramp cohort demonstrates the drive, passion, and power of Hoosier creative entrepreneurs, and we look forward to welcoming the newest cohort into this inspiring network.”  

The deadline to apply to participate is January 6, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. ET.  

 

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