Indy resident Karis Dix, 18, is more likely to get her news from social media than a newspaper. But every year since she was 16, she has looked to the Indianapolis Recorder for coverage about the Debutante Cotillion and Scholarship Ball. When she was a child, her mother, an avid Recorder reader, would take her […]
If there was any question whether Hoosier cuisine could find new uses for butter, deep fryers and over-the-top fixings, this year’s Indiana State Fair sets the record straight. Consider the butter-dipped ice cream: vanilla soft serve coated in melted butter, which hardens into a golden shell finished with flaky sea salt. Or the deep-fried Lindor […]
After more than a year of eligibility reviews that have already removed hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers from Medicaid, the state’s low-income health insurance program is entering a new phase that could determine whether even more beneficiaries lose their coverage. Over the next 18 months, Indiana is expected to implement a series of state and […]
The notice arrived after Taylor Holliday-Smith thought she’d already done everything the state asked. The letter from earlier this summer said her 5-year-old son, Thomas, would lose Medicaid coverage unless the state received updated income verification. Holliday-Smith drove to her local Family and Social Services Administration office in Huntington, updated the family’s address and turned […]
Indiana’s Medicaid rolls have shrunk by more than 343,000 people in a single year — an 18.5% drop that ranks among the steepest in the country. That has left hospitals, healthcare providers and advocates bracing for an increasingly uninsured population. State enrollment stood at 1,512,713 Hoosiers in June, down from 1,856,272 one year earlier, according […]
Back in the day, when newspapers were flush with resources, they had internal libraries or archives of all of their stories, casually referred to as morgues. It was common practice for reporters to “check the morgue” before writing any story about the community. Reporters could learn the history of almost anything in Indianapolis by checking […]
