Following the retirement of Indiana’s junior senator, Evan Bayh, the state’s Democratic party is forced to replace the man who’s been its most visible figure for the last two decades.
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8th District Congressman Brad Ellsworth made it official Friday by announcing in an e-mail that he plans to run for the U-S Senate seat soon to be vacated by Evan Bayh. One 8th District leader says he thinks the congressman gives Democrats a renewed chance of keeping the seat, but Republican strategists say their tactics won't change much.
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Following a Tuesday meeting of the Monroe County Community School Corporation’s board, parents and politicians alike were given a chance Wednesday to again air their displeasure with a proposal which would cut 75 jobs and more than five million dollars from the corporation’s bottom line.
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Though he says he believes a sitting member of Congress will likely be appointed to run for Evan Bayh’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan said he’d pick a different Democratic candidate, if given the choice.
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Bloomington restaurant owner Tamyra D'Ippolito is refusing to say much about her legal plans to become the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Evan Bayh. Even as other Democrats raise a questioning eyebrow, the senatorial hopeful says she still plans to file her candidacy by Friday's deadline.
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Monday's announcement that Senator Evan Bayh will not seek re-election means there's just a single Democrat left in the race. But Bloomington restaurant owner Tamyra D'Ippolito is still struggling to collect signatures by Tuesday's deadline -- thanks in some part, she says, to nonchalance on the part of local Democratic leaders.
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For months, Todd Rokita has advocated stripping the Indiana General Assembly of its redistricting power and giving that responsibility instead to a bipartisan commission, which he hopes will redraw maps which look less like ink blot tests and more like geometric figures.
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On Friday, Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett met with one of four Deputy Mayors of Krakow, Poland to learn how that city has turned its image around in less than three decades. As WFIU's Stan Jastrzebski reports from Krakow, city leaders say it starts with a focused strategy, but admit they fight some of the same battles as Indiana politicians.
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It's our final day in Poland and I'm glad I'll end the trip here with one of the most overwhelming senses of pride I've ever felt.
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For the last week, WFIU News Director Stan Jastrzebski has been traveling with a group led by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, founder of Terre Haute’s CANDLES Holocaust museum. The group has toured concentration camps and on Wednesday witnessed the ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz camp.
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