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SHELLA: Bombings leave us with new realities

May 4, 2013
The Boston Marathon bombing is a tragedy that hit close to home. It will continue to hit close to home.
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SHELLA: Nonvoters are real Hoosier citizens, too

March 2, 2013
Do the politicians care what nonvoters think? House Speaker Brian Bosma recently took issue with the WISH-TV/Ball State Hoosier Survey because, he said, it wasn’t a voter poll. When challenged, he said that he cares what everybody thinks, but the message he delivered was that the opinions of voters matter more than those of adults who don’t get to the polls.
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SHELLA: Watching the parade from the front row

January 5, 2013
"Is there any chance we can be there when you get the call?” I asked Dan Quayle on the morning he was chosen to be George Bush’s running mate.
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SHELLA: Political lessons learned, and relearned

December 1, 2012
Ten takeaways from a memorable November election in Indiana:
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SHELLA: A kitchen where the heat is turned down

November 3, 2012
All of a sudden, when I check out news stories on the Internet, a negative political ad pops up and I can’t make it go away. That is, unless I want the news story to go away, too.
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SHELLA: Lugar plots next chapter in storied career

September 29, 2012
Richard Lugar is leaving the Senate, yet the Republican who lost the May primary election to Richard Mourdock still intends to continue some of the work that defined his life as a lawmaker. Lugar spelled out his plans for the first time in a recent speech to the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis at a dinner staged to honor his more than four decades of service as school board member, mayor and six-term U.S. senator.
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SHELLA: Voters are pretty good at limiting terms

September 1, 2012
Mitch Daniels is leaving office because of a term limit. As he departs at the end of his second four-year hitch, a recent independent poll placed the Daniels approval rating at 66 percent, showing a large majority of voters still approve of the job he’s doing.
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SHELLA: Why the Democrats ousted Pat Bauer

August 4, 2012
He lost the majority in 2010 and staged two failed walkouts in 2011 and 2012. That was part of it.
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SHELLA: Twitter now imperative for political junkies

June 30, 2012
Twitter provides a play-by-play of every meaningful political event.
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SHELLA: Pence next up to answer residency questions

May 5, 2012
That means they sleep, eat, work and attend school in Arlington. Their hearts are in Indiana.
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SHELLA: No truce at the Statehouse over social issues

March 31, 2012
Long knows that, in order to keep his leadership post, he has to give in to a number of conservative demands.
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SHELLA: Clearly, Dick Lugar is no Charlie White

March 3, 2012
There has been a lot of disinformation and misinformation in Indiana politics of late with regard to the residency issue.
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SHELLA: Free speech on display at the Legislature

February 4, 2012
All of this union-backed expression is in response to the right-to-work bill.
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SHELLA: Democrats will reorganize — eventually

January 7, 2012
They are wasting their ammunition on each other.
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SHELLA: Indiana Legislature likely to deliver the unexpected

December 17, 2011
If you want to know what really matters in the upcoming legislative session it’s likely impossible to find out now.
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SHELLA: Will this be Ballard's last term as mayor?

December 10, 2011
Look for the Democrats to field a stronger candidate in 2015.
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SHELLA: Mourdock vs. Lugar isn't about Mourdock

November 12, 2011
When the Tea Party Express sent representatives from Georgia and California to endorse Mourdock, they couldn't answer a simple question about why they support the challenger.
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SHELLA: Twenty years of 'Indiana Week in Review'

October 8, 2011
There is a community that has grown up around the show, Republicans and Democrats who have new respect for one another, journalists who view politicians in more humane ways, and politicos who better understand journalists’ motives based on what is said both on the air and off.
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SHELLA: Why Hinkle needs to get out of politics

September 10, 2011
Never mind that Conan got the title wrong. He was right about the voting record and, most important, he got a laugh.
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SHELLA: Rename clunky IUPUI for Doc Bowen

August 6, 2011
You could come up with a clumsier name for a college than Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, but it would be tough.
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SHELLA: Print's decline is bad for this news junkie

July 9, 2011
I appreciate the fact that a team of people go through a day’s worth of information and try to prioritize it for me.
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SHELLA: Mitch's marriage was no big deal in Indiana

June 11, 2011
I’m told that in the 2004 race, Joe Kernan, the Democratic nominee, personally vetoed any use of the Daniels divorce in his campaign.
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SHELLA: A theater review of the General Assembly

May 7, 2011
Indianapolis Democrat Greg Taylor goes to the microphone so much he makes Don Quixote look lethargic. Carmel Republican Mike Delph seems to scour the Drudge Report looking for new ways to make the electorate adopt his values.
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SHELLA: Indiana has no shortage of stupid laws

March 12, 2011
A law designed to make politics more transparent has given politicians a reason to hide their motives, their actions, and wink at the public in the meantime.
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