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Speaker 1: Congratulations. The Washington Post has named Indiana State of the Year.

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Speaker 2: Where number one?

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Speaker 1: Where number one?

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Speaker 2: Where number one?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy. It was their inaugural State of the Year award.

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Speaker 1: They've never done it before and they started with the Hoosiers,

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Speaker 1: the great state of Indiana. State of Indiana.

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Speaker 3: Is that because of the fabulous economic environment that we

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Speaker 3: have here, the low taxes that we have compared to

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Speaker 3: other states.

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Speaker 2: No, it must be for those reasons.

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Speaker 3: Is it because of the wonderful sports culture that's been

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Speaker 3: built in the city of Indianapolis in the state of Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Nope.

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Speaker 1: The reason why Indiana was named State of the Year

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Speaker 1: by the Washington Post was because Indiana lawmakers rejected President

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Speaker 1: Trump's push for midday mid decade redistrict.

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Speaker 3: This is such, This is Washington, the Washington Post being

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Speaker 3: the Washington Post. They find some state that rebuked Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump for whatever reason, does matter, and that's the that's

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Speaker 3: the qualifier, that's the criteria they used to declare Indiana

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Speaker 3: the State of the Year.

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Speaker 2: This is disgusting from the Washington Post.

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Speaker 1: They said that Indiana resisted intense pressure and threats, including

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Speaker 1: from the White House and the governor Mike Brown. So

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Speaker 1: imagine this. There's this first time award from you know newspaper,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, you win congratulation?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Indiana State of the Year.

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Speaker 1: I really want to put this in the state of

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Speaker 1: the state of address.

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Speaker 2: Oh no.

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Speaker 1: The reason why is because something that I was pushing failed.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I won't mention.

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Speaker 3: Mis imagine having that conversation in the governor's office. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you're right, the Washington Post named a state of the Year.

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Speaker 3: No kidding, that's awesome. We should put out a post.

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Speaker 1: Is because of my economic agenda.

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Speaker 2: Let's get a press for governor.

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Speaker 3: Ready, let's get a press release, let's put it out

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Speaker 3: on social media. It's because we did not pass redistricting,

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Speaker 3: the sigy thing that you wanted accomplished in a special session.

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Speaker 2: So they did.

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Speaker 1: Cite a few other reasons. Also laughable property tax cuts,

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Speaker 1: they said, also the education policy, the removal of income

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Speaker 1: limits for school vouchers, and also charter school and zoning changes.

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Speaker 1: Laws made it easier to start charter schools. So who's

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Speaker 1: going to win next year.

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Speaker 2: State of the Year, State of the air.

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Speaker 3: Well, apparently all we have to do is find something

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Speaker 3: that Donald Trump wants and tell him to stick it

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Speaker 3: and will get State of the Year for twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: second year.

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Speaker 1: Make it a dynasty. This is generational State of the Year.

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Speaker 1: That's what this is. The House Minor House Minority Leader

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Speaker 1: was very critical of the designation as well. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you've got the top stories that shaped Indianapolis in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five year in review.

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Speaker 2: Shall we do it please?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you've got, oh the top story read district.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a conversation with the Washington Post apparently.

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Speaker 1: Also coming in at number two property tax reforms again

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Speaker 1: something we just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: Another things that nobody wanted in the recap so far

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Speaker 2: number one.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we wanted property tax reform. The lawmakers didn't

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Speaker 1: want that, your local governments didn't want that, and.

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Speaker 2: We got a bill that nobody is happy with.

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Speaker 1: They also say IPS overhaul is another top story in

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis for the past year. How about the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: mourning the passing of Jim Mersey.

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Speaker 2: It was a big story.

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Speaker 1: His daughters takes over the leadership. You also have IU controversies.

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Speaker 1: You had the Board of trustees shift them being appointed

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Speaker 1: now by the governor. You also had the lawsuit over

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Speaker 1: the student newspaper. And you also had IU foot ball

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Speaker 1: being the number one football team in the country.

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Speaker 3: But this is supposed to be in Indianapolis. The top

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Speaker 3: stories of Indianapolis. That's all right, well, best question, look

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Speaker 3: boom along the list. Bloomington is like a far suburb

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Speaker 3: of Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: We'll count it, all right.

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Speaker 1: Another big story out of Indy Joe hawkseett scrutiny over him,

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Speaker 1: calls for his resignation over the handling of the sexual

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Speaker 1: harassment allegations. Of course, he remains in office, and the

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Speaker 1: twenty seven Mayo race expected to focus on the culture

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Speaker 1: within the city hall.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm surprised. Probably the one story after redistricting that

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Speaker 3: garnered Indianapolis the most national news not on that list,

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Speaker 3: and that's the Mark Sanchez story.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, certainly that's not.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no real big long term impact, positive

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Speaker 3: or negative. It's really kind of an indivior for him

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Speaker 3: individual story. It's a big story, but man, I mean

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Speaker 3: that was huge national news for weeks. And I'm sure

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Speaker 3: his court date keeps getting pushed back, But I mean

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Speaker 3: this is going to be a legal process that will

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Speaker 3: probably play out for a little while and then certainly

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Speaker 3: bring Indianapolis to the spotlight again. But the Mark Sanchez

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Speaker 3: story was a huge story in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Another big story that they're saying comes out of Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: this year is the Indigo Purple Line. And finally sports.

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Speaker 3: Injuries on oh, the Indigo Purple Line, Purple line, that's

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Speaker 3: like a top story in Indianapolis for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's come on.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many days I complain about Washington

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Speaker 1: being torn up on my way in to work because

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Speaker 1: of that. The construction alone has affected the city. What

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Speaker 1: they've done, ripping up all the roads to make it.

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Speaker 3: Happen to people in this city and the organizations in

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Speaker 3: this city that keep pushing this public transit that nobody

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Speaker 3: is virtually nobody is asking for and nobody is using

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Speaker 3: and claiming like it's some great thing that we're accomplishing

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Speaker 3: here in this town.

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Speaker 1: Finally, sports injuries Tyrese Halliburton's achilles tear. Also Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and he kept her out for the season. Those

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Speaker 3: are big stories, yeah and valid.

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Speaker 1: Hm. Okay, So we also have Americans' top concerns for

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Speaker 1: the coming year for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Let me guess somehow economy unaffordable cost of living, they've

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Speaker 3: wrecked that all.

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Speaker 2: Into one lation.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, Many Americans remaining focused on the price of groceries, housing,

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Speaker 1: and just overall general expenses. Approximately twenty percent of adults

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Speaker 1: want government action on housing costs. Another top concern going

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Speaker 1: into next year health care costs. About forty percent of

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Speaker 1: adults cited healthcare as a top priority.

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Speaker 3: That is going to be that that's going to that

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Speaker 3: is ended up. I'm going to make a prediction that'll

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Speaker 3: end up be in the number one story of twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six or healthcare possibly because everybody's you.

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Speaker 1: Want to, you want to you want to bet the

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Speaker 1: government's going to shut down again in January.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you got to give me odds on that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's all almost a certainty that the government's

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Speaker 3: going to shut down again in January. I would need

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Speaker 3: minimum ten to one odds on that bet. But I'll

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Speaker 3: take it. I'm always up for some action. I'm always

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Speaker 3: up for gambling on what the government's going to do. Sure,

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Speaker 3: I'll take some action on that.

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Speaker 1: Adults age forty five to fifty nine are especially worried

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Speaker 1: about health care costs and those surging prices. Another top

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Speaker 1: concern for twenty six immigration. Democrats concern have increased from

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Speaker 1: thirty two percent to forty percent. Republicans concern has declined

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Speaker 1: from seventy percent to sixty percent.

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Speaker 3: And I think that whether you're a Democrat or Republican,

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Speaker 3: when you say my concern is immigration, you probably mean

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Speaker 3: completely different things. Because if you're a conservative, my concern

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Speaker 3: for immigration is we've got too many illegal immigrants here.

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Speaker 3: If I'm a Demo, if I'm a liberal, my concern

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Speaker 3: for immigration is ice doing raids and removing legal immigrants

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Speaker 3: from the country.

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Speaker 1: Another concern for many people public confidence and government. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you have any at all, that's what's the biggest shocker. Right,

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Speaker 1: Sixty six percent said they are slightly or not at

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Speaker 1: all confident, and that is up from last year where

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Speaker 1: it said at fifty eight percent.

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Speaker 3: Sixty seven percent. Is that what you said? Sixty six

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Speaker 3: sixty six percent? That seems low. That means that there

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Speaker 3: are roughly thirty four percent of the population that has

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Speaker 3: an incredible amount of confidence in governmental organizations.

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Speaker 2: Seems high to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is the Kennel and Casey Show. It's

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Speaker 1: ninety three WYBC