by Rep. Todd Young Federal issues impacting Indiana industries vary a great deal, from trade agreements, to patent reforms, to the tax code. Yet, problems with regulatory roadblocks aren’t unique. Operations big and small are forced to do more, with less, as a result of costly regulations coming out of Washington. In recent years, no… Continue reading.

If Good Intentions alone could generate electricity, we could shut down every power plant that emits even one molecule of carbon dioxide or one speck of ash. We could close the intakes on any hydroelectric dam that disrupts the frailest fry in the tiniest tributary. We could dismantle every wind turbine that brains a bird… Continue reading.

BY REP. SUSAN BROOKS When I started my tenure as senior vice president for workforce and economic development at Ivy Tech Community College in 2007, the energy renaissance that would transform our nation was just getting underway. Our manufacturing intensive state had just begun seeing the benefits of the hydraulic fracturing revolution that would unleash… Continue reading.

For 80 years, Indiana Electric Cooperatives has been faithfully serving electric cooperatives throughout the Hoosier state. Established in 1935, we were the first organization of its kind in the United States — and over time we’ve grown to serve more than 1.3 million people, families, farms, and businesses in 89 of the state’s 92 counties…. Continue reading.

Beginning in 2012, the International Year of the Cooperative, two teams of Indiana linemen spent a month electrifying three villages in Guatemala. Lives were changed, both here and there. In 2015, the vision grew into Project Indiana and sustainable change — moving beyond electrifying villages, to making them a better place to live and enhancing… Continue reading.

This spring, the enclosed courtyard at Indiana Electric Cooperatives’ office building, home to Electric Consumer, on the west side of Indianapolis, once again served as the maternity ward for a mallard duck. She flew into the courtyard, which is open to the outside only from above, and bedded down on the mulch beside the small… Continue reading.

May 11, 1935 was a significant day in the history of rural electrification. On that day 80 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7037 creating the Rural Electrification Administration. The REA’s function was to lend money and provide engineering services for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in rural areas. The REA… Continue reading.

When 300-some Indiana electric cooperative leaders convened in Indianapolis on Dec. 8-9, their focus was definitely on the future. At the 80th annual meeting of Indiana Electric Cooperatives, attendees were updated on industry issues, including power generation adequacy, rural broadband and future EPA regulations. Youth had key roles throughout the meeting. Indiana’s 2014 Youth Leadership… Continue reading.

Thanks to the cooperation of a Southern Indiana electric co-op and its co-operative power supplier, the Indiana Department of Correction is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars through energy efficiency improvements — some of which were done with the help of inmates. “We try to get to know all of our key accounts,” said Renee… Continue reading.

This Christmas cancellation is caused by no foggy Christmas Eve nor dark of night — but rather is the Santa Claus Post Office’s special “Picture Postmark” to cancel the postage stamps on Christmas mail. The famous small-town post office in Spencer County is the only one in the world with the Santa Claus name and… Continue reading.

Two years into the Great Depression, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced at the 1931 annual gathering of governors his intention to challenge President Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election. He also first outlined what would become his “New Deal” at this meeting which was held here in Indiana at the French Lick Springs… Continue reading.

A man is on his hands and knees combing the grass below the glow of a street light one night when a police officer happens by. “I’ve lost my car keys,” the man tells the officer. After a few minutes of helping in the search, the officer asks, “Where do you think you dropped them?”… Continue reading.