Coming up on IPR’s Morning News with Stan Sollars podcast, we’ll have these stories for you:

 Lawmakers ended the 2025 session early Friday morning by passing a new state budget that Republicans say takes care of Indiana’s priorities — and Democrats argue moves the state backward.  Legislators were faced with a two-billion-dollar revenue shortfall in the new budget. They filled it with a two-dollar-per-pack cigarette tax hike, major cuts to higher education and public health, and defunding things like public broadcasting and trails.

A significantly scaled-back bill that aims to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices in state government and public education is headed to the governor’s desk.

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