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By Bill Ruthhart, The Indianapolis Star
Most employers will not be able to ban guns from their property under legislation Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law Thursday.
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By Staff Reports, Gary Post-Tribune
PORTAGE, Ind. -- A new law allowing people to carry guns into parking lots on business property won't cause more work place violence, Northwest Indiana officials say.
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Illiana Expressway plan signed into law
By Christin Nance Lazerus, Gary Post-Tribune
The Illiana Expressway bill garnered Gov. Mitch Daniels' signature on Thursday. The law will allow the state to enter in a public-private partnership to build and develop the Illiana Expressway.
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Full day kindergarten hurt by sour economy, cost
By Chelsea Schneider Kirk, Gary Post-Tribune
Northwest Indiana parents who pay their school districts for full-day kindergarten may face steeper costs next year as districts struggle to find revenue in the wake of $300 million in cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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Opinions differ in local rally on health care bill
By Jeff Parrott, South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The heated rhetoric on both sides of the health care reform debate moved from Washington to hometown Main Street, literally, at a lunch-hour rally Thursday outside the downtown offices of U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger.
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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Will union make allowances for school reform?
By Joseph Dits and Kevin Allen, South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- If the South Bend Community School Corp. goes through with state mandates to lift failing ISTEP test scores at Bendix, Riley and Washington high schools — specifically, the state's list of "must do" tasks — it will have to violate the teachers contract.
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U.S. Supreme Court may rule on Asian carp case
By Nathan Hurst, The Detroit News
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as today if it will consider a lawsuit filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox seeking immediate closure of the locks near Chicago to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.
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More hearings sought on Great Lakes levels
By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A coalition of environmental groups worried about dropping water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron is asking the U.S. and Canadian governments to expand a planned series of public hearings on the issue.
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Lawmakers 'did no harm' in session
By Bob Caylor, The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne)
State legislators were willing to claim that victory Wednesday when they gathered at the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, 826 Ewing St., to reflect on the General Assembly session that ended last weekend.
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Regional grant policy faces delay
By Charles M. Bartholomew, Gary Post-Tribune
PORTAGE, Ind. -- Final adoption of the much-discussed Complete Streets Policy by the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission Executive Board was delayed Thursday because of the same concerns expressed in several committee meetings.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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