Senator Mike Braun

Joined: February 15, 2015
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Government

Senator Braun joins Senator Paul’s bill to end mask mandate on public transportation

SOURCE: News release from Office of Senator Mike Braun WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Braun has cosponsored the Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021, legislation to prohibit the imposition of mask mandates on public transportation. This legislation was introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and U.S.…

July 16, 2021

Health

July 16, 2021 Update from Indiana Department of Health

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health announced today that 561 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 760,103 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel…

July 16, 2021

Community

Apply for the 2021-2022 NASA Psyche Inspired internship program by July 30, 2021

Here’s an update from Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller: The application for the 2021-2022 NASA Psyche Inspired internship program is open! The application closes July 30th! This is a NASA creative arts opportunity that is open to full-time enrolled undergraduates…

July 16, 2021

Community

Logansport Municipal Utilities’ demolition projects move forward

Logansport Municipal Utilities (LMU) is moving forward with demolishing the former electric generating plant and water treatment plant in the coming months. After receiving approval from the utility services board last month to move ahead, work has begun for both…

July 16, 2021

Community, Health

Logansport Memorial names new Chief Medical Officer

Logansport Memorial is pleased to announce the transition of Dr. Todd Weinstein, from general surgeon to Chief Medical Officer, effective September 1, 2021. Dr. Weinstein graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine with his medical degree in 1986.…

July 16, 2021

Government

Braun, Young, Hoosier Mayors help preserve OMB city designation for Indiana cities

WASHINGTON — Today, Senator Mike Braun and Senator Todd Young commended the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) decision to back off a proposal to change the federal definition of “city” and instead retain the existing Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) designation.…

July 16, 2021

Government

Senator Braun signs joint statement against Democrats’ partisan spending bill

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mike Braun has joined Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) to release…

July 16, 2021

Community

Logansport man sentenced to 16 years for attempted rape and child exploitation

LOGANSPORT –Noah Schafer, the Cass County Prosecuting Attorney, announced that Laadis Orlando Saavedra, 65, of Logansport was sentenced to sixteen years in the Indiana Department of Correction for Attempted Rape, Child Exploitation, Vicarious Sexual Gratification, and Sexual Battery. Saavedra was…

July 16, 2021

Community

Treasury and IRS announce families of nearly 60 Million children receive $15 billion dollars in first payments of expanded and newly advanceable Child Tax Credit

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service announced today that roughly $15 billion dollars were paid to families that include nearly 60 million eligible children in the first monthly payment of the expanded and…

July 15, 2021

Education

NASA-Supported Plant Experiment Flies to Suborbital Space with Virgin Galactic

Here’s an update from our local Solar System Ambassador Pam Roller: While the university researchers have flown similar experiments supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program on suborbital flights, data collected during the Unity 22 flight will provide a first look…

July 15, 2021

Obituaries

Geraldine “Gerri” Klopp

Geraldine “Gerri” Klopp, 58, Logansport, passed Wednesday, July 14, 2021, Logansport Memorial Hospital. Born March 2, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Shirley (Matteson) West. On October 21, 2000, in Illinois, she was…

July 14, 2021

Obituaries

Carol Jean DePoy

Carol Jean Depoy, 82, Indianapolis, passed away at Ascension St. Vincent Indianapolis on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Born in Carroll County, Indiana on July 2, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Harold Junior and Leora (Castle) Cripe. Carol…

July 14, 2021

Obituaries

Dixie Lee (Williams) Leffert

Dixie Lee Leffert, 79, of Logansport, passed away Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in her residence surrounded by her family. Born on September 15, 1941 in Kalamazoo, MI, she is the daughter of the late John W. and Martha E. (Hobaugh)…

July 14, 2021

Obituaries

Leonard A. Bland

Leonard A. Bland, 80, of Logansport, passed away Monday July 12, 2021, in his residence. Born April 23, 1941, in Staten Island NY, Leonard was the son to the late Leonard and Allison (Whaling) Bland. On June 12, 2004, in…

July 14, 2021

Obituaries

Xenia Raquel Toloza Argueta

Xenia Raquel Toloza Argueta, 45, of Logansport, passed away Monday, July 12, 2021. Born on January 8, 1976, in El Salvador, she is the daughter of Manuel E. Argueta and Raquel Toloza. Xenia was employed at Tyson. Surviving her are…

July 14, 2021

State

Consumer alert: Attorney General Todd Rokita warns Hoosiers against telephone scam

Attorney General Todd Rokita issued an alert to Hoosiers to remain vigilant against a recent surge in telephone scams seeking to take advantage of consumers. An influx in reported complaints have shown that fraudsters are utilizing a telephone scam in…

July 14, 2021

Health

July 14, 2021 Update from Indiana Department of Health

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health announced today that 612 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 759,062 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the…

July 14, 2021

Obituaries

Walter Albert Miller

Walter Albert Miller, 92, of Lafayette, IN, passed away on Monday, July 12, 2021 in The Springs at Lafayette. He was born on May 20, 1929 in Lafayette, Indiana to the late Albert and Florence (Martin) Miller. Walter graduated from…

July 12, 2021

Obituaries

Linda Lutes Welch

Linda Lutes Welch, of Logansport, passed away on her 78th birthday, Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Lafayette. Born July 8, 1943 in Logansport, she was the daughter of the late Donald D. nd Lela H. (Dial) Lutes. A 1961 graduate…

July 12, 2021

Obituaries

Marilyn Adell (Bowen) Foust

Marilyn A. Foust, 90, of Logansport, passed away Thursday July 8, 2021 in her residence. Born June 8, 1931 in Ohio, she was the daughter of the late John Lee and Adele Helen Bower. On June 8, 1949 she married Harold…

July 12, 2021