Allen County health department braces for potential budget cuts

Allen County health department braces for potential budget cuts

Local public health officials are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the Indiana General Assembly’s budget negotiations, which are happening this week.

At Indiana Statehouse, budget cuts, hemp regulations and school board partisanship hang in the balance

Indiana lawmakers have just a week to close a staggering $2 billion hole in the state’s next two-year spending plan — plus, bridge disagreements over publicly funded vouchers to private schools, regulations on marijuana-like products and school board elections. The General Assembly aims to finish its work this week, but technically has until a statutory April 29 deadline to wrap up. “Our job, one more important than any other legislation that we…