August 20, 2026
Indiana Puts the Brakes on New Data Centers: Indianapolis Moratorium Joins a Statewide Pause
On August 19, 2026, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6-0 to place a temporary moratorium on new data-center development inside Marion…
July 23, 2026
What’s Behind the NDA? Posey County, Charlestown, and a Big Week for Southern Indiana’s Data Center Question
By Evan Plainman for Unite The Divided On Tuesday, at a public meeting in Mount Vernon, Posey County Commission President Bill Collins…
July 21, 2026
Citizen Briefing: Surveillance Camera Networks (Flock and Similar Systems) in Southern Indiana
What is happening locally Evansville Police Department has operated 55 Flock automated license-plate readers since at least 2022. The cameras were funded…
July 21, 2026
Citizen Briefing: Data Centers and Large Energy Projects in Southern Indiana
Indiana currently has roughly 46 tracked data-center projects with announced investment exceeding $28 billion. Major examples include Amazon’s $11 billion project in…
July 11, 2026
What AI Means for Southern Indiana Jobs (And Our Prediction, On the Record)
Everyone can feel it. AI is changing work, fast, and most of the conversation swings between two useless poles: “the robots are…
July 11, 2026
Is College Relevant? For Whom?
It is the question sitting on kitchen tables all over Southern Indiana, usually unspoken, right next to the college brochures: is this…
July 11, 2026
Grown Right Here: Why Southern Indiana Can Feed Itself
Drive ten minutes in almost any direction from Evansville and you are surrounded by some of the richest farmland in the country.…
July 11, 2026
Energy Costs and the Affordability Crisis, Who Sets Your Rates, and Why They Keep Rising
Almost nothing hits a household budget as directly and as universally as the utility bill. Electricity and gas are not optional, so…
July 11, 2026
Potholes & Following the Money Behind What Gets Fixed
Roads, bridges, drainage, sidewalks, and sewers are the least glamorous things local government does, and the most universal. Everyone uses them, everyone…