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South Bend Tribune: New train station in South Bend: lots of money on studies. No progress. No location settled.
Sheckler, Christian. 2021. New train station in south bend: Lots of money on studies. no progress. no location settled. TCA Regional News, Mar 21, 2021. (accessed March 24, 2021). Mar. 21—In 2018, when former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg threw his support behind a...
IGA 2021 Session: House Bill 1365
HB 1365: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1365 An incredibly large bill (115 pages), with various reforms to election law in Indiana. One change we saw of concern is making any Anomaly Report confidential except at the discretion of the Secretary of...
IGA 2021 Session: House bill 1418
HB 1418: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1418 When some areas expand, others contract. One area to note is that the bill expands the mandatory exemptions (10) from Application information declared confidential by the Indiana Economic Development...
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New Mexico: Public university foundations are subject to FOI laws, appeals court rules
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has affirmed that records generated by the University of New Mexico Foundation and its athletic booster clubs are subject to public inspection under the state’s transparency law.The April 21 court ruling states there are no overarching...
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
Cox, Joseph. 2022. CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders. May 3rd, 2022 (Accessed May 4th, 2022) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones...
Companies line up to bid on Grand Park: 18, some in central Indiana, want to own or operate sports campus
Carloni, Brittany. 2022. Companies line up to bid on grand park: 18, some in Central Indiana, want to own or operate sports campus. Indianapolis Star, Apr 27, 2022. (accessed May 1, 2022). Eighteen companies have informed Westfield they are interested in either...