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If the Trump administration truly wants to bring manufacturing back to its “glory days,” it’s going to have to invest in workforce development and allow the decisions on how to train people to occur at the local level.
U.S. Representatives Frank Mrvan and Nikki Budzinski hosted a roundtable July 30 with regional leaders of organized labor, higher education and nonprofit organizations.
They gathered to discuss the federal government’s role in strengthening the workforce through education and training initiatives.
U.S. Reps. Frank Mrvan, Gary’s representative in the U.S. House, and Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, hosted a workforce development roundtable Wednesday in Gary focused on expanding federal investment in job training and education.
Lawmakers hosted a workforce development roundtable on Wednesday.
It happened at one of the United Steel Workers posts in Gary. The conversation was led by Indiana Congressman Frank Mrvan and Illinois Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski.
Leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District, the City of Portage, and U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (IN-01) gathered July 29 to celebrate the completion of the Portage Interceptor Rehabilitation Project – Phase II.
When U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Portage officials cut the ribbon Tuesday for a newly completed project, the evidence of that work was nowhere in sight.
“There’s nothing flashy about it,” Corps of Engineers Col. Kenneth Rockwell said. He is commander of the Corps’ Chicago district.
But then, sewers belong underground. They should be unseen and not heard — nor smelled.
In Portage, officials are celebrating the completion of a project they say will reduce excess flow and the risk of sanitary sewer overflows near wetlands and residential areas. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Chicago District, Indiana U.S. Representative Frank J. Mrvan, and city of Portage held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday July 29, 2025.
Federal and local officials cut a ribbon this week to mark the completion of the second phase of a $3.5 million sewer rehabilitation project in Portage.
Indiana wounded by last year's $1 billion shortfall in covering Medicaid costs
The future of Medicaid serving the health needs in northwest Indiana got a hearing from leaders of 8 community health centers in Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties.
Health care providers warned of dire consequences for patients, including those with commercial insurance, from Medicaid cuts enacted by Congress in what President Donald Trump refers to as his “big beautiful bill.”