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Statehouse Dispatch
FEIGENBAUM: Chief justice's retirement puts court at crossroads
December 31, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumYou cannot overstate the positive impact Indiana’s longest-serving Supreme Court chief justice, Randall T. Shepard,
has had on the state and local judiciary in Indiana (and nationally, where he is the longest-serving court leader).
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Passage of Daniels' agenda will spawn sweeping change
May 7, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumYou shouldn’t have much trouble discerning the immediate winners from the 2011 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Lessons learned from an unconventional session
April 30, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumHoosiers were on notice headed into the session that they would not see four months marked by a “business as usual”
attitude.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Conference committees may offer fewer fireworks
April 23, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumGiven the historical context, it would not be unexpected that there wouldn’t be much left to argue about as the 2011
legislative session approaches its scheduled April 29 conclusion.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: New legislative maps matter over the long term
April 16, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumDistrict lines largely will guide the partisan composition of the Indiana House of Representatives and the delegation we send
to Congress for the next decade.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Wrangling over budget takes center stage in Legislature
April 9, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumBudget cuts became more painful in the past several years as the national recession drew the fiscal noose tighter on Indiana
government income.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Fallout from Democrats' walkout will affect fall elections
April 2, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumFollowing five weeks in a chain hotel in Illinois, House Democrats marched back into the Statehouse—literally—on
March 28, escorted by union leaders along Capitol Street and up the east steps in an event made for media. So who wins?
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Right-to-work issue still alive and kicking
March 26, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumLegislative observers wonder whether this session’s unique nature may convince Senate leaders to be a bit more flexible
in ruling on germaneness.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Thoughts turn to truncated state budget process
March 19, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumAs the legislative standoff continued, those who were concerned about policy turned their attention to the budget process.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Will Democrats hold out until some warm April day?
March 12, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumIndiana House Democrats largely remain bunkered en masse in Urbana, Ill., save occasional individual appearances back at town
hall events in their respective districts.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Prepare for a history-making budget process
March 5, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumHoosier Democrats may find that their solon sojourn in Illinois invokes Newton’s law of political physics: Every action
has an equal and opposite reaction.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Freshmen legislators' green is showing
February 26, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumThe “new kids in the bloc” failed to heed their elders, and got a bit greedy too quickly, goading Democrats into the only
recourse open to them.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Gambling and guns create legislative fireworks
February 19, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumAt least one Indianapolis legislator has quietly investigated allowing casinos to collaborate on a temporary downtown facility,
and Republican Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has publicly not ruled it out.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Governor focuses on the big issues, just as Reagan did
February 12, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumThat “think big” attitude seems to be carrying over to lawmakers, who this month focused on major issues.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Unemployment insurance bill's path surprisingly smooth
February 5, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumOnce in a legislative blue moon, a bill will zip through the labyrinthine process with alacrity.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Lawmakers wrestle with when and how to regulate
January 29, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumWhat may be appropriate regulatory reform to one person or industry may be anathema to another.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Daniels experiences pushback even from Republicans
January 22, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumAssorted issues advanced by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels are confronting political pushback—from his Republican legislative
majority.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Right-to-work debate could create sparks in Legislature
January 15, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumThe bulk of legislative Democrats, allied with organized labor, are vehemently opposed to having Indiana join almost two dozen
other states with right-to-work laws, labeling them as discriminatory against minorities and women, and contending that such
laws will do little more than reduce wages and lower the living standards of many Hoosiers.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Here's what to expect from State of the State Address
January 8, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumState of the State Address can help outline priorities for a given session, and governors have used them to dramatically draw
a line in the proverbial sand, directly delivering a message to the individual members and leaders of the legislative branch—and
over their heads to the voters—as to what they expect, will tolerate, and hope for.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Session to test lawmakers' views on small government
January 1, 2011
Ed FeigenbaumMany new House and Senate members won election in part on platforms of reducing government regulation and minimizing government
in the lives of Hoosiers.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Short session succeeded in doing no harm
March 20, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumThe 2010 legislative session ended strangely: ahead of deadline, yet a week beyond the expected schedule, and the last full
day saw more mood swings among lawmakers than Indianapolis Colts fans experienced during the Super Bowl.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Legislature heads toward bumpy conclusion
March 13, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumOK, I admit that I’m still wincing about last week’s column about a peaceful, easy feeling in the General Assembly
as it approached the leadership-targeted early-adjournment date.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Session heads toward early, quiet completion
March 6, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumThe buzz as the days ran out suggested that nothing on the agenda was “must-pass” legislation, leaving Democrats
and Republicans, the House and the Senate, and the governor and the General Assembly with little leverage to exert.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Don't expect fireworks in session's grand finale
February 27, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumLawmakers head into one
of their briefest periods of conference committee deliberations in recent years with just a handful of major issues needing
resolution.
MoreFEIGENBAUM: Sen. Bayh's call for civility reverberates at Statehouse
February 20, 2010
Ed FeigenbaumIn 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.
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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?
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