SHABAZZ: Good governing isn’t always about being bold
People are complaining there is no significant initiative that costs a lot of money, takes years to accomplish and grabs a lot of headlines.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz
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SHABAZZ: Hoosiers for Life needs to get one
All their antics do is make people like me who tend to be more agnostic on the abortion issue want to write checks to Planned Parenthood.
Shabazz: Here’s how you do immigration reform
I totally get border security, but we have to be smart about it.
Shabazz: Patriotism, politics and professional athletes
Patriotism is loving your country so much that you are willing to call it out when you think it is wrong.
Shabazz: A more honest look at the satellite-voting debate
Satellite voting might make it easier for people to vote, but there’s no evidence that it increases participation.
Shabazz: A few more facts about police-action shootings
With what we’ve seen in the news, you would think it was open season on unarmed black men by law enforcement. However, the data paints a different picture.
SHABAZZ: My take on the flap over Jennifer Messer’s Fishers contract
I didn’t write this column in my downtown office, but in my back yard, where I can have a cigar and adult beverage.
SHABAZZ: The turmoil that is Donald Trump
Now, is the impeachment talk premature? I would say yes. But is the groundwork being laid for a constitutional crisis? Yes.
SHABAZZ: Kudos to a merit system for picking judges
Under the old system, unless you were the ultimate insider, Marion County voters didn’t have much say in the process.
SHABAZZ: Trump supporters hit hard by president’s cuts
Government spending, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t getting under control.
SHABAZZ: Indiana black Democrats right to demand diversity
Since 2004, Indiana Democrats have had only one African-American running on the statewide ticket. It was Vop Osili, who ran for secretary of state in 2010.
SHABAZZ: I’ve heard enough whining from the anti-Trump crowd
Seriously, folks, you all need to take a step back from the hyperbole, the histrionics and the hyperventilating. It’s getting really old really quickly.
SHABAZZ: Looking for Indiana’s next generation of political leaders
This election revealed up-and-coming leaders in both parties in Indiana.
SHABAZZ: A few thoughts on free speech in a sensitive world
If someone has a problem with something this country is doing, they have every right to peacefully protest. I did not say riot; I said protest.
SHABAZZ: There’s a lot of good news in Indiana’s jobs numbers
The state’s economy added more than 11,000 jobs in July and more Hoosiers were working than ever before. Unemployment is at 4.6 percent and the state’s workforce participation rate is 65.4 percent—the national average is 62.8 percent.
SHABAZZ: Insightful facts about police-action shootings
A majority of the suspects who were shot while armed were white.
SHABAZZ: Whatever happened to my father’s Republican Party?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed had it not been for Republicans. That’s right. While the Democrats of today have monopolized the title of champion of civil rights, back in the day, it was the GOP that came to the rescue.
SHABAZZ: John Gregg and the Mitch Daniels Republicans
There is a certain amount of irony in the fact that the person Indiana Democrats have hated the most in the last 12 years might be their only salvation to recapture the office he took from them back in 2004.
SHABAZZ: When third parties become our first choices
In a recent poll by Rasmussen, nearly one in four voters said they would stay home or vote a third party if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the nominees of their respective parties.
SHABAZZ: Gentrification–Here comes the neighborhood
Gentrification is controversial, but guess what? It works.