The members of the Indiana General Assembly possess a real passion for solving problems that donât exist or that they created themselves. Real problems, on the other hand, they pretend not to see. The push to pass a measure modeled after Floridaâs âDonât Say Gayâ law is â...â
Elect a clown, the joke goes, and you should expect a circus to follow. Sometimes, you even get the clownâs brother-in-law as part of the act. The news, first reported by The Indianapolis Star, that Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales hired his brother-in-law is an outrage â...â
College students can do amazing things. I know Iâve seen them make magic happen. In 2006, not long after I came back to Franklin CollegeâI am an alumnusâto become the director of the Pulliam School of Journalism, I took a team of students to Indianapolis to cover the first â...â
Itâs a good thing Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, and other gun devotees in the Indiana General Assembly arenât in charge of fire safety at state schools. If they were, their âsolutionâ to classrooms set ablaze would be to make sure that every teacher had a can of gaso â...â
People donât always have a second chance to do the right thing. Neither do professions nor public institutions. Such a second opportunity, though, may present itself with the ongoing trainwreck that is the office of the Indiana attorney general. Marilyn Odendahl of The Indiana â...â
Todd Rokita has neither sense nor shame. There seems not to be a stupid fight Indianaâs attorney general wonât pick or taxpayer money he wonât waste to fuel the endlessly running engine that is his ambition to gain higher office. The latest evidence that Rokita isnât to b â...â
Words matter to Mitch Daniels. They always have. The just-retired Purdue University president and former Indiana governor took pride in penning his speeches and other pieces of writing that bore his name. He wanted to be able to own what he said and have what he said matter. That â...â
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Indiana, made a good point. Her leaderâSpeaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, R-Californiaâhas said he plans to prevent U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, from serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and block U.S. Rep â...â
The early skirmishing over who will be the Republican candidate for Indianaâs U.S. Senate seat in 2024 demonstratesâconclusivelyâthat the GOP of Ronald Reagan is dead and gone. Reagan famously set forth what he called the 11th commandment: âThou shalt not speak ill of an â...â
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb took a risk with his seventh State of the State address. He dared to be boring. Holcombâs half-hour speech read and sounded like a term paper. It was loadedâalmost clogged, in factâwith numbers. At times, it seemed as if the governor were reciting â...â