The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections,
ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates.
Evan Bayh is no Martha Coakley. But on the outside chance Bayh could be beat in this year’s senate race, an opponent might
do best to paint him as an elitist.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will deliver the annual State of the State address Tuesday night at 7 p.m. before a joint session of the Indiana House and Senate.
Jealousy toward Indianapolis in the Statehouse shows no sign of letting up, one legislator says.
Are Republicans shooting themselves in the foot with another bill targeting illegals?
Assessing the odds for government reform in the General Assembly.
Property-tax caps, unemployment insurance, ethics top list of issues awaiting General Assembly.
Obama is going wobbling on forcing fiscal responsibility on states, and Hoosiers might get stuck with the bill.
Some Indiana mayors, desperate for revenue, think it’s time for "payments-in-lieu-of-taxes."
An Indiana House committee has set Dec. 16 as the day it will take up a bill to tighten lobbying and ethics rules.
Former state representative and lobbyist Luke Messer thinks Sarah Palin could carry Indiana in a presidential primary.
Is it freedom-enhancing to defend a veteran’s “right” to commit slow-motion suicide and homicide?
Should Biglari take Landesman’s remarks as praise where he can get it, or consider them an insult?
Fiscal responsibility could be the mettle Sen. Evan Bayh needs to land in a higher office.
The state should delay unemployment tax increases on businesses from 2010 to 2011 to help companies retain workers and possibly
wait long enough for a federal bailout, Republicans who control the Indiana Senate said Tuesday.
The health insurance industry’s sudden counterpunch to the Senate version of health reform echoed in Indiana and
opened a key issue for the rest of the debate: Will covering half of the country’s uninsured mean raising premiums for
the 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance?
If Indianapolis is considered a model on fronts ranging from downtown revitalization to fiscal responsibility, why is it so
late to ban smoking? George Geib, who has been observing Indianapolis as a Butler University historian for 45 years, thinks
the reluctance can be traced to immigration patterns.
An interim legislative committee is likely to recommend that new guidelines be established for Indiana lawmakers to follow
when they redraw legislative and congressional maps in 2011, a state senator said Tuesday.
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita pitched a plan today that would make it illegal for lawmakers to consider political
data when redrawing congressional and legislative district maps.
