March 15, 2013
Associated PressSeveral people who worked in former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' administration have landed jobs with Ivy Tech Community
College, but a school spokesman says there's no mystery about the hires.
More
March 14, 2013
Associated PressLegislative Republicans have defeated a Democratic proposal aimed at preventing a repeat of Purdue University's hiring
of Mitch Daniels as its new president while he was still governor.
More
January 25, 2013
Associated PressPurdue University President Mitch Daniels says he won't be lobbying state lawmakers on Purdue's behalf this session
because it's too soon after his departure from the governor's office.
More
January 21, 2013
Associated PressFormer Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has started his tenure as president of Purdue University with a fact-finding tour that students
said impressed them with his willingness to engage them on changes he's considering for the university.
More
January 14, 2013
Associated PressMitch Daniels stepped into his new role as Purdue University president Monday as soon as Mike Pence was sworn in to succeed
him as Indiana's governor.
More
December 29, 2012
Mike HicksNo matter your politics, you must admit that Mitch Daniels has been the most consequential Hoosier governor in more than a
lifetime.
More
December 29, 2012
J.K. WallAs Gov. Mitch Daniels leaves office in January, there is debate about whether his policies of keeping taxes and spending low,
while pursuing alternative strategies to improve roads and schools, have been the best way to help Indiana attract and create
more high-wage, knowledge-based jobs.
More
December 16, 2012
Associated PressOutgoing Gov. Mitch Daniels would be paid $420,000 a year in his new job as president of Purdue University under an incentive-based
contract approved by the school's board of trustees' compensation committee.
More
November 26, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov.-elect Mike Pence has tapped one of his top campaign aides and a veteran of Gov. Mitch Daniels' administration
to lead the state's budget office.
More
October 23, 2012
Mason King
How deep are the roots in J. Murray Clark's political family tree? What still stings
from the former state GOP chairman's tenure? How does he view the party today? What about fundraising tips? Clark has
answers.
More
October 18, 2012
Associated PressIndiana's top ethics official says Gov. Mitch Daniels won't face any restrictions on his new job as Purdue University's
president.
More
October 7, 2012
Associated PressGov. Mitch Daniels is still promoting the online college known as Western Governors University just months before he becomes
Purdue University's new president.
More
October 4, 2012
Associated PressTax cuts being pushed by gubernatorial candidates are hardly guaranteed a rubber stamp from lawmakers, and a state constitutional
ban on same-sex marriage could win quick approval next year, Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said Thursday.
More
September 22, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is meeting skeptics head-on as he educates himself about the challenges he'll face as the next
president of Purdue University.
More
September 12, 2012
Associated PressA Democratic legislator is seeking an ethics investigation into Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' new job as president of Purdue
University.
More
August 4, 2012
Associated PressQuestions remain whether Indiana's governor will be covered by the state's "revolving door" law when he becomes president
of Purdue University. State ethics rules require a one year cool-down period for public officials after leaving office, preventing
them from working as lobbyists.
More
July 1, 2012
Associated PressOne of the biggest surprises of the announcement that Gov. Mitch Daniels would take over as Purdue University president in
January was his pledge to stop campaigning and commenting on politics until then.
More
June 23, 2012
J.K. WallColleagues of Gov. Mitch Daniels say Hoosiers should expect him to bring a familiar approach to his upcoming role at Purdue
University: Do more with less, reward performance, find creative ways to tap new pools of money, and use warm folksy charm.
More
June 23, 2012
Purdue University, known for its outstanding academic programs, has long sought a higher national profile. Choosing Mitch
Daniels as its president should go a long way toward achieving that goal.
More
June 22, 2012
Associated PressThe governor said Friday he was checking whether he could press members of the General Assembly on the university's behalf
after he becomes Purdue's president in January, because of state ethics rules that require a one-year "cool down"
for public officials after leaving office.
More
June 21, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he'll live in the president's house once he takes over at Purdue University but will
go back and forth to his Carmel home.
More
June 21, 2012
Associated PressAs expected, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will become the next president of Purdue University when he leaves office in January.
Purdue officials introduced Daniels as the school's new leader Thursday following a vote by the board of trustees.
More
June 19, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressA board of trustees dominated by Daniels' own appointees will select him as the university's 12th president Thursday,
sources told IBJ and other news outlets. The appointment will add a dramatic new chapter to his diverse career.
More
May 12, 2012
Associated PressRepublican Mike Pence, Democrat John Gregg and Libertarian Rupert Boneham each say job creation would be "job one" if elected
governor. But their means to reaching employment goals vary from dispatching missionary-style investment gurus, to growing
more hemp and bamboo, to increasing wind-turbine manufacturing in the state.
More
April 18, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney after declining for months
to publicly support any of the Republican candidates.
More
Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.