Hoosier Survey

Health care, public safety and school safety — those are the issues Hoosiers want the state government to focus on in 2025, according to results from the latest edition of the Hoosier Survey by the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University.

More than 44 percent of Hoosiers find it extremely or somewhat important to live in a place where others share their political views. This could be contributing to political polarization

Hoosiers are split over whether Indiana lawmakers should draw their own districts -- as they currently do -- or an independent commission should be responsible for redistricting.

A majority of Hoosiers say the governor's emergency powers should be more limited according to the latest edition of the Ball State Hoosier survey, a poll of 600 Indiana residents.

A small plurality of respondents in the annual Ball State Hoosier Survey have a positive view of Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill as he heads into a re-election campaign.

More Hoosiers approve of President Donald Trumps job performance than disapprove, according to the latest edition of Ball State's Hoosier Survey.

This year's group of respondents ranked marijuana as posing less of a problem in their communities than other drugs, and even than alcohol.

Of those surveyed, 52 percent say Holcomb is doing a good job, compared to just 13 percent who disapprove.

Sen. Michael Crider (R-Greenfield) - one of the road funding bill's sponsors - says he's heard positive feedback since the measure passed.