State of Good tracks positive, locally reported news from Indiana. Below are 5 uplifting stories, pulled directly from Indiana's newsrooms and community publishers and refreshed every morning.
Bring your own lawn chairs to the 26th Annual Community-Wide Reconciliation Picnic on August 16th, 2026. Events begins at noon and goes until dusk at Jackson Park (22nd St and Raible Ave).
Hoosiers insured through Medicaid will soon gain access to GLP-1 medications for obesity. Gov. Mike Braun on Thursday directed the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, which administers Medicaid benefits to 1.9 million Hoosiers, to participate in a federal initiative to cover GLP-1 medications for obesity. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center is […]
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 […]
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration returned $310 million to the state’s general fund this year, a dramatic turnaround for an agency once staring down a $1 billion deficit for Medicaid. FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob credited the reversal to a series of reforms the agency enacted during his tenure: regular financial reviews, must-return mailers, […]
After two deaths this year at an immigration detention center at the Miami Correctional Facility in north-central Indiana, I blasted the local press for not going deep enough. In my April 2026 column, I criticized reporters for their coverage, which did little to shed light on the lives of the two detainees, Lorth Sim and […]