The successor to France Cordova, who is stepping down this summer when her contract expires, will have to tip-toe between two almost contradictory demands: Cut costs for students yet spend more to ramp up Purdue’s research enterprise.

The firm of McGuireWoods announced Monday that former Sen. Evan Bayh would be a partner and strategic advisor to domestic and international clients on public policy matters.

The political world trembled on Feb. 15, when Indiana’s Democratic U.S. senator, Evan Bayh, announced he would not seek a third term.

Many Indiana Democrats had hoped a Bayh candidacy for governor could begin reversing a string of setbacks for their party.

Democrats lost 12 House seats, two congressmen and a U.S. senator, and the party failed to win any of three state offices.

Indiana Democrats are looking for a life preserver heading toward 2012. And their best hope might rest with the man some blame in part for at least one of the party's losses: retiring Sen. Evan Bayh.

One hundred Indiana House seats are on the ballot—though many fewer are competitive—but their outcomes may affect the state well beyond the two-year terms that the candidates seek.

Bayh, who announced last week that he would not seek a third term in the Senate, has wide legal flexibility in directing the $12.2 million left in his campaign account.

Sen. Evan Bayh brought home the bacon—more than $1.4 billion in federal appropriations and grants in just the last 12 months.

After Sen. Evan Bayh's bombshell announcement, I'm even less likely to ever run for office.

In the most significant retirement decision announced in Indiana since Reggie Miller hung up his sneakers, Democratic U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh said Dec. 15 he would not seek a third U.S. Senate term. That decision also sent shock waves through the ranks of Democratic lawmakers in Indianapolis, none of whom had any advance word.

The only Democrat seeking to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Evan Bayh has missed out on qualifying for Indiana's May primary ballot.

Tired of partisan politics, Sen. Evan Bayh told a standing-room-only crowd at an Indianapolis news conference Monday afternoon that he will eschew reelection and wants to "serve society in another way."

U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh has a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. at IUPUI's University Place Conference Center and Hotel, where he will announce that he won't run for re-election. "I  do not love Congress," he said in a prepared statement.

Corporate boards need more women, but not people such as Susan Bayh, wife of Sen. Evan Bayh. It’s not that she isn’t up to the task. The former attorney at Eli Lilly and Co. and visiting professor at Butler University is by all accounts capable. So we’re not surprised she regularly receives invitations to serve on boards. But we are surprised she accepts.