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One of the passengers aboard Air France Flight 447 was a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music; a water line break prompts a boil order in Bedford, and hooking up a new water tower Martinsville will require a boil order tomorrow; a federal loan pays for new water infrastructure in Brown County; local union leader Tom Szymanski says the local chamber of commerce isn't being honest about its motives for lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act; WFIU manager Christina Kuzmych ponders the security of state funding after promised payouts fail to show up; the Indiana State Department of Health reports nine new confirmed cases of H1N1 but will no longer provide daily reports on new cases; sixteen local volunteer fire departments get state DNR grants; pioneering Internet technologies gets IU a mention in a tech magazine.
FEATURE
It’s a short summer break for Indiana lawmakers now that Governor Mitch Daniels today called the General Assembly back into session to hammer out a new budget before the current fiscal year ends at the end of the month. Today it was announced that lawmakers will return to Indianapolis on June 11th. Daniels says his plan reduces total state spending by 2.5% and would freeze spending increases in all areas except education. A revenue forecast released last week predicted Indiana will collect $1.1 billion less through June 2011 than April estimates had predicted. Daniels commented on his budget proposal last night in brief remarks aired live on WFHB.
FIREHOUSE FEEDBACK
Local resident Jason Page says California got it all wrong on Proposition 8 as that state’s Supreme Court upholds a ban on gay marriage.