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Fridays at 11 pm on WFYI 1
Fridays at 9 pm on WFYI 3
Saturdays at 6 am on 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
While the Indiana Legislature is in session.
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The 2013 legislative session has concluded please join us next year when the legislators reconvene. Indiana Lawmakers with Jon Schwantes is funded through a long term commitment by Purdue Research Park.
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Indiana Lawmakers - General Assembly Recap - May 3, 2013
Host Jon Schwantes is joined by a group of the state's most experienced legislative journalists for his annual look back at the General Assembly. Indiana Lawmakers - 2013 Session Winds Down - April 26, 2013
The 2013 session is winding down and this week on Indiana Lawmakers with Jon Schwantes, all four of the caucus leaders sit down and engage in a lively debate over the state budget, taxes, job creation, and healthcare for Hoosiers. Indiana Lawmakers - State Budget - April 19, 2013
This week four of the primary players on the state budget scene sit down with Jon to describe this session's process and budgetary expectations, and explain where members are able to meet and where they go their separate ways on funding issues. Indiana Lawmakers - Indiana's Unemployment Rate - April 12, 2013
Indiana's unemployment rate currently stands at 8.7%, running higher than the national average. This week on Indiana Lawmakers our panel delves deeper into the numbers to learn what is really holding Hoosier workers back from significant job growth. Indiana Lawmakers - Politics of Crime - April 5, 2013
This week an expert panel takes a look at the politics of crime and if this is the year the General Assembly finally embraces a top-to-bottom overhaul of penalties for crimes committed in the state.
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In January, 1981, a series of short field reports began an examination of the issues and agendas before the state legislature. Thirty years later, Indiana's decision makers are still appearing on Indiana Lawmakers. Journalist Jon Schwantes will guide the discussion between Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, the governor, state senators, state house members, lobbyists and pundits in his 16th year as the show's host.
Major funding for Indiana Lawmakers is being underwritten by Purdue Research Park.
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Jon Schwantes, a panelist on Indiana Public Television’s weekly, political round-table series Indiana Week in Review, will serve as studio host and moderator for Indiana Lawmakers. During each weekly installment of Indiana Lawmakers, Schwantes will expand on timely topics by moderating in-studio roundtable discussions while publisher Ed Feigenbaum will offer viewers an insider’s commentary.
Ed Feigenbaum manages INGroup, a Noblesville-based firm that offers various key information resources related to Indiana state politics and government. He earned both a degree in law and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, and has served as Director of Legal Affairs for the Council of State Governments, and as Director of Marketing and in-house counsel for the Hudson Institute. Since 1989, he has published Indiana Legislative Insight, a widely read and respected weekly insider's newsletter that explains what's happening and why in Indiana politics and government.
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