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PNS Weekend Update - May 25th, 20130
Featured on our Memorial Weekend update: “March against Monsanto” protests in more than 200 cities to call attention to potential risks from genetically modified foods; The I-5 bridge collapse a call to action for the nation’s aging infrastructure, and one state just named the bird on their license plates.
Public News Service - Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS – Memorial Day is set aside to honor fallen veterans, but one Hoosier veteran is concerned the country will do a disservice to those who survive if the president and Congress change the way cost-of-living adjustments are made to veteran's benefits and Social Security. Army veter...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing a lawsuit because it continues to allow a form of arsenic to be used in animal feed given to chickens, turkeys and hogs. The suit was filed on behalf of a handful of advocacy groups, including the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Poli...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana attorney, who is also a state senator, has noticed an uptick in Hoosier seniors being intimidated in financial matters by con artists, salespeople, even family. The Indiana Division of Aging indicates financial exploitation of seniors went up 80 percent between 2001 and 201...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - When Congress passed the "sequester" cuts as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, across-the-board reductions were imposed on a number of agencies. The National Institutes of Health lost five percent of their budget, about $1.6 billion. According to Pam Miller, advocacy director ...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's aging population is being recognized this month with a proclamation by Gov. Mike Pence. Events focusing on keeping older Hoosiers well and active are happening during May's "Older Americans Month." The 10th Annual Aging Well Conference will be held May 23 at Ball State Univ...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - Imagine tossing 25 bucks into the trash can every month . . . It happens in Indiana, and across the country, as Americans throw out about 20 pounds of food every 30 days, on average. It goes bad, or there are too many leftovers. According to Jon Foley, director of the Institute on t...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - As legislators work to finalize Indiana's budget for the next two years, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, has cut proposed Department of Child Services increases by $10 million. Some of the money would be used for pay raises to slow caseworker tur...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS - Conflict-of-interest questions are being raised about two Indiana state lawmakers who've made changes to a Rockport gas plant bill intended to protect natural gas customers from paying for possible losses from an Indiana state contract with Leucadia National Corporation. The contrac...Read More