Birch Bayh Memorial Set For May 1 At Statehouse
Birch Bayh Memorial Set For May 1 At Statehouse
April 19, 2019
A memorial service to honor former United States Senator Birch Bayh will take place at noon May 1 at the Indiana Statehouse. Bayh, who represented the Hoosier state in Washington from 1963-1981 after becoming the youngest-ever Indiana House speaker in 1954, died last month at age 91.
Numerous dignitaries have scheduled pay tribute to Bayh’s memory and accomplishments, including Gov. Eric Holcomb, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, former congressmen Lee Hamilton and Baron Hill, and Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the Southern Indiana District Court. The event is hosted by the Indiana Democratic Party.
Bayh also will be eulogized by his sons — former Indiana Governor and Senator Evan Bayh, and Christopher Bayh, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis. Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh will attend, as will their sons Beau and Nick. Birch Bayh’s widow, Katherine “Kitty†Bayh, will read a poem written by the Senator.
Birch Bayh leaves a lasting legacy in the Indiana legal and political communities. He is the only person who is not a founding father who ushered in two constitutional amendments. The federal courthouse in Indianapolis is named in his honor.
The memorial will take place in the south atrium of the Statehouse and is open to the public.
USI Posted First-Place Finish At Bryan Clay InvitationalÂ
USI Posted First-Place Finish At Bryan Clay InvitationalÂ
AZUSA, Cal. – The University of Southern Indiana track and field teams with senior Hope Jones(Cumberland, Indiana) posted a first-place finish at the Bryan Clay Invitational hosted by Azusa Pacific University over the weekend.
JONES WINS 10K HEAT
Jones tamed a 10,000m race field that included many division I runners from UC Irvine, Utah, Grand Canyon, and UMKC while also facing a GLVC opponent in Illinois-Springfield. Her time of 35:29.55 moves her up from 10th to fifth all-time on USI’s record book along with positioning herself as the fastest Eagle in the 10,000m this season.
This is also Jones’ personal best time in the 10k in a USI uniform.
COMASTRI FOLLOWS SUIT
USI junior Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana) also etched her name into top performance in the same race, finishing 13th out of 25 runners with a time of 37:12.04.
HALL’S STEEPLE PERFORMANCE
Junior Nathan Hall (Springfield, Missouri) finished 74th out of 105 harriers in the 3,000m steeplechase in yet another loaded field across all divisions and one that saw an APU Stadium record broken as Hall crossed the line in 9:41.10.
This puts Hall on the top of the 3,000m steeplechase performance list for this current outdoor season.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The whole Eagle squad will return on April 25-26 in Hillsdale, Michigan for the 53rd Annual Hillsdale “Gina” Relays.
The Evansville Police Department Issues Warning to Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
The Evansville Police Department is joining about 230 law-enforcement agencies across Indiana and thousands nationwide in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over mobilization. From mid-August through Labor Day, police will be out in full force arresting impaired drivers. Expect to see increased sobriety checkpoints, roving patrols and saturation patrols.
A driving while intoxicated (DWI) arrest means going to jail and losing your driver’s license. The average DWI cost? About $10,000, including car towing and repairs, attorney fees, fines, court costs, lost time at work and other hefty expenses.
Indiana law-enforcement agencies have participated in annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over traffic enforcement for more than 20 years. Overtime patrols are supported with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) funds distributed by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI). For more information, visit http://on.IN.gov/drivesober.Â
New impaired-driving equipment
In every state, it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. In Indiana, drivers under 21 with a BAC of .02 or higher are subject to fines and a license suspension for up to 1 year.
NHTSA and ICJI recently purchased more than 2,600 portable breath tests to assist 150 Indiana law-enforcement agencies with establishing probable cause in arresting drunk drivers.
But DWI includes more than alcohol, and there is no quick field test for the many prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs that can impair drivers. This year, the police officers highly trained to recognize and enforce drug-impaired driving were issued Android tablets to simplify documentation for prosecution.
Tips for a safe and fun season
The annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign includes the Labor Day weekend, with thousands upon thousands of Hoosier families taking to their cars for end-of-summer barbecues, football games, lakes and pool parties. Sadly, it is also one of the deadliest times of year for impaired-driving deaths.
With all of today’s options for getting home safely, there’s no excuse for getting behind the wheel impaired as it endangers you and everyone else around you. Law enforcement recommends these safe alternatives to impaired driving:
- Designate, or be, a sober driver.
- Use public transportation.
- Call a cab or a ridesharing service.
- Download the SaferRide mobile app on the Android Play Store or the Apple iTunes Store. This app only has three options: call a taxi, call a friend, and identify your location for pickup.
- Celebrate at home or a place where you can stay until sober.
- Throwing a party? Offer non-alcoholic beverages and plenty of food.
- Never provide alcohol to minors.
- Ask young drivers about their plans.
- Friend or family member about to drive? Take the keys and make alternate arrangements.
Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over
Motorcycle riders have the reputation for being tough, but no one is tough enough to withstand the effects of impaired riding. Motorcycles are about 3 percent of registered vehicles, but are dramatically overrepresented in fatal crashes involving alcohol. And the more that bikers drink, the less likely they are to wear their helmets.
Report impaired drivers
Impaired driving is three times more common at night than during the day. If you see an impaired driver, turn off the road away from the vehicle and call 911. Signs of impaired driving include:
- Weaving, swerving, drifting, or straddling the center line
- Driving at a very slow speed
- Braking erratically
- Making wide turns
- Stopping without cause
- Responding slowly to traffic signals
- Driving after dark with headlights off
- Almost striking an object or vehicle
- Driving on the wrong side of the road
- Turning abruptly or illegally
Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation Meeting
The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet in executive session at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 22, 2019, in the John H. Schroeder Conference Centre at the EVSC Administration Building, 951 Walnut, IN 47713, Evansville, IN. The session will be conducted according to Senate Enrolled Act 313, Section 1, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1, as amended. The purpose of the meeting is for discussion of collective bargaining, (2)(A); initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing, (2)(B); purchase or lease of property, (2)(D); and job performance evaluation of individual employees, (9).
The regular meeting of the School Board will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the EVSC Board Room, same address.
New IU Maurer Professorship Honors First Black, Female U.S. State Justice
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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law has announced the creation of a trailblazing endowed professorship – the first in Indiana University history to honor an African-American woman, and the law school’s first named after a woman of color.
Endowed by $1 million in pledges and gifts from faculty members, alumni and law school friends, the professorship honors Juanita Kidd Stout, IU Maurer alumni and the first African-American woman to serve on a United States state supreme court.
Lauren Robel, IU Bloomington provost and Val Nolan professor of law, contributed the endowment’s lead gift, with numerous IU law professors close behind.
Also contributing to the fund are law school dean Austin Parrish and Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The total gift will count toward IU’s $3 billion bicentennial campaign.
Stout earned her JD degree in 1948 and a master of laws degree in 1954. She then opened her own practice in Pennsylvania, eventually working in the district attorney’s office. Stout was later elected to the Philadelphia Municipal Court in 1959, making her the first African-American woman in the country to be elected to a court of record.
Stout continued to break barriers when in 1988 she became the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — the first African-American woman appointed as a state supreme court justice in the U.S.
She received an honorary degree from IU in 1966 and was inducted into the law school’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1986. Philadelphia named the Juanita Kidd Stout Criminal Justice Center in recognition of her accomplishments as a lawyer and public servant upon her death in 1998.
“Justice Kidd Stout has long been a personal hero of mine,†said Robel. “She lived a remarkable life of historic firsts marked by courage and compassion while shattering barriers to women and African-Americans in the legal profession.â€
Parrish noted that to be named the Juanita Kidd Stout Professor of Law will be a tremendous honor for a faculty member. The selection will be announced later this year.
“Establishing this professorship is an important way to recognize one of our most prominent and distinguished graduates,†Parrish said. “I was pleased to join Provost Robel in making a gift to establish this professorship as an enduring tribute to Justice Stout’s legacy, and I am grateful for the other faculty and friends of the law school who joined me in contributing.
“I would like to extend a special thanks to one of our alums who has asked to remain anonymous but whose tremendous generosity made this professorship possible.â€
The professorship is another achievement in diversity efforts for the law school, which maintained more female graduates than male graduates this year. It also elected alumna Annie Xie as the Indiana Law Journal’s first woman of color editor-in-chief in 2016 and has appointed Jose Moncada as first Latino editor-in-chief for the coming year.
“The greatest law schools have great minds — faculty who are simultaneously creative scholars and engaging teachers,†Parrish said. “Endowed professorships are a crucial tool for retaining our world-class faculty, for continually enriching our academic environment and, in turn, for attracting the most talented students.â€
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March Indiana Employment Report
March Indiana Employment Report
Private Sector Employment Continues to Reach
Preliminary Record Peak
 Indiana’s unemployment rate stands at 3.6 percent for March and remains lower than the national rate of 3.8 percent. With the exception of one month when it was equal (October 2014), Indiana’s unemployment rate now has been below the U.S. rate for more than five years. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force.
Indiana’s labor force had a net increase of 6,769 over the previous month. This was a result of an increase of 2,634 unemployed residents and an increase of 4,135 employed residents. Indiana’s total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment, stands at 3.41 million, and the state’s 65.3 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of 63.0 percent.
Learn more about how unemployment rates are calculated here: http://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/infographics/employment-status.asp.
Employment by Sector
Private sector employment has grown by 38,100 over the year and 5,300 over the previous month. The monthly increase is primarily due to gains in the Professional and Business Services (1,200), the Leisure and Hospitality (1,100) and the Financial Activities (1,000) sectors. Gains were partially offset by a loss in the Other (-300), which includes Mining and Logging, IT and Other Services, sector. Total private employment reached a preliminary record highpoint of 2,750,400, which is 18,300 above the December 2018 peak. The March 2019 peak, like all data within this report, is subject to monthly revisions and annual benchmarking.
Midwest Unemployment Rates
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EDITOR’S NOTES:
Data are sourced from March Current Employment Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
March employment data for Indiana Counties, Cities and MSAs will be available Monday, April 22, 2019, at noon (Eastern) pending U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics validation.