DOWD: A nibble on a candy bar, and a Rocky Mountain high
The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child.
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SIDDIQUI: Democrats in Washington should approve HIP 2.0
The Healthy Indiana Plan is a good move for Indiana and our country. It allows us to provide access to health care to the uninsured poor in a way that instills responsibility, limits abuse and furthers innovation.
DANIELS: To compete, Indianapolis must be aggressive
Want more police officers? Want those winter-battered streets repaired? Want more sidewalks and street lights? Better parks and green spaces?
VANE: Ballard counters anemic national economy with growth
It is always disheartening to read about the national economy’s not growing, but rather contracting, in the last quarter and that hundreds of thousands of people simply have quit looking for work.
MACALLISER: Ballard has characteristics that transcend politics
I go back to that happy time when elections (and campaigns) occurred on a fixed, periodic schedule versus campaigning incessantly every day, of every month, of every year. Although our municipal election is 18 months off, the political winds have been blowing for a full year—and we don’t even know who’s running for mayor.
FROEHLE: The economics of environment in Hoosier Nation
It seems that what is right for America must not be right for Hoosiers. At least, that is what our governor would have us believe.
CARPENTER: Pence is letting Indiana’s coal habit cloud our future
Protesting that you can’t meet power-plant-emissions reduction goals because you’re too coal-dependent is a bit like saying you can’t arrest liver damage because you’ve got this taste for liquor.
KRULL: EPA battle leaves Indiana stranded on the shore
So, Gov. Mike Pence wants to have a fight with the Environmental Protection Agency.
BECK: Democrats left big JJ dinner energized, unified
One of my favorite parts of serving former first lady Maggie Kernan involved county Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners. Call me crazy, but I enjoyed countless evenings at JJ dinners, whether it was fried chicken in Parke County or a standing-room-only crowd in Starke County.
BARLOW: Dems now importing candidates … bad ones
I am going to start with a confession: I am a conservative Republican, so it should be no surprise that I cracked up while reading tweets, Facebook posts and stories about the Indiana Democratic Party’s State Convention, or the “Big Dem Weekend.”
MAHERN: Has Legislature lost its ‘do the right thing’ members?
Forgive my nostalgia. I had a fairly serious health scare a little over a month ago and find myself quite involuntarily looking back.
VAUGHN: Admitting problem is first step to ethics reform
While I was disappointed the House Ethics Committee didn’t even slap Rep. Eric Turner’s wrist for his behavior surrounding the failed nursing home moratorium, I was surprised and pleased the committee report admitted that our Legislature’s ethics rules and statutes are too lax.
SHEPARD: Voting centers might not be a great idea, after all
Voter turnout in Indiana’s recent primary election was the lowest in 20 years, 35 percent below average. It’s time for a serious conversation about whether the growing use of voting centers is bad for turnout.
STYRING: Considering a weapon of last resort against the feds
Chances are you’d never heard of something called the “Mount Vernon Assembly” before reading this column.
GREGG: GOP plays Chicken Little politics with Constitution
Recently, House Speaker Brian Bosma and Senate President Pro Tem David Long announced their support for having Indiana join the ranks of states calling for a constitutional convention.
VOSS: Core supporters count more than ever with new media
The media has fragmented from relatively few outlets to a plethora of voices, particularly on the Internet. How will increasingly customized appeals to voters exacerbate the ability of elected officials to compromise on legislation? Have you ever read an article online that was shared by a friend or relative, completely agreed with it, then reshared […]
MATTHEWS: Lawmakers increasingly edge into ideological corners
The media has fragmented from relatively few outlets to a plethora of voices, particularly on the Internet. How will increasingly customized appeals to voters exacerbate the ability of elected officials to compromise on legislation? Can’t we all just get along? Unlikely. Gridlock and political dysfunction in Congress is at an all-time high. It hasn’t always […]
FRIEDMAN: The world wants Americans to act like Yankees again
I’ve visited Kiev and Hanoi recently, and it’s been extremely revealing. Ukraine is struggling with how to deal with a declining Russia that is looking for dignity in all the wrong places—like in Crimea—and Vietnam is struggling with how to deal with a rising China that is looking for oil in all the wrong places—like in Vietnam’s territorial waters.
COLLINS: Women making waves this election cycle, left to right
This election season is going to be all about women. OK, not entirely. Men will be involved on many significant levels, like running the network of oligarchs who take advantage of our weakened campaign finance laws to manipulate the American democratic process in pursuit of their own selfish ends.
ODLE: Money, people better directed at preventing crime
Donald Sterling has caught the attention of America and reminds that the struggle to combat inequality and discrimination is ongoing and that the idea that we are living in a post-racial America is truly inaccurate. Every now and then, the negative perceptions we harbor about those different from us become public and we declare how unacceptable it is in our modern society.