It is always disheartening to read about the national economy’s not growing, but rather contracting, in the last quarter and that hundreds of thousands of people simply have quit looking for work.
My mother was a diehard Democrat. She’s been gone for more than five years now, but I can still hear her telling me to be quiet when Ann DeLaney started to speak on “Indiana Week in Review.”
Perhaps the most intriguing question in what is shaping up to be a remarkable political year is the following: Will Greg Ballard seek a third term as mayor in 2015?
Let’s assume for now, with appropriate disappointment, that there are no Hoosiers on the ballot.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s read what I’ve written in Forefront that I didn’t buy a ticket to ride the “Hope and Change” express. Just because I wasn’t a passenger, however, doesn’t mean I didn’t want the train to reach its station.
Unquestionably, the biggest political news of this young year was the decision by City-County Councilor Jose Evans to join the Republican Party.
While I freely admit that my political memory and experience do not equal that of many of the folks on these pages, I am quite sure the following statement rings true: No governor in modern Indiana history is laboring under more expectations than Mike Pence.
Legacy can be a tricky word. Most leaders are interested in the legacy they will leave when their term ends or they step down from running an organization or entity; others, you could say, probably border on obsessed. Politicians, my reading of history has educated me, fall mostly into the obsessed category.
I simply can’t imagine that there’s been a more interesting era of politics in the Hoosier State than the one in which we are living.
If there is a word to describe the 2012 gubernatorial race, I would have to choose “curious.”
Going to a convention really is a “bucket list” item for those of us who find politics so compelling. I can only imagine what the conventions were like a hundred years ago—much less scripted and scrutinized I’m sure—but there was such tremendous optimism and energy in Tampa last month.
In an economic climate that can at best be deemed uncertain, and at worst catatonic, it is critical that the public and private sectors encourage and aid small-business entrepreneurs.
The state superintendent of public instruction’s race may be the most crucial contest this fall.
She will be a brilliant ambassador for the type of conservatism that excludes no one.
Forgive me, but I am perplexed as to why this issue is so controversial.
Why in the world would any campaign question Lugar’s integrity or Hoosier credentials?
Some of the people who played a pivotal role in shaping this debate are also running for public office.
Council Democrats decided to act as through the mayor has no say in what becomes law.
The Indianapolis furniture czar got his chance to run things his way.
