HOWEY: Tax caps might force government mergers
Citizens are only now waking up to the notion that vital services will be cut unless dramatic changes are made.
Brian A. Howey / Special to IBJ
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HOWEY: Bauer, other aged House Dems should go
Thus, out of this blood, sweat, angst and smoke, we learned that this past spring, Bauer actually contemplated a run … for governor!
HOWEY: Mourdock’s big GOP gamble is taking hits
I ran into Rex Early last winter just as the buzz about Richard Mourdock’s challenge to U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar was reaching a crescendo. “Could Lugar get beat?” I asked him. Yes, was the answer from the former state Republican chairman. Early knows the ins and outs of Republican politics about as well as anyone. […]
HOWEY: Bosma oversees calm, compelling change
A younger Bosma during an earlier stint as speaker might have responded with acid rhetoric and ultimatums.
HOWEY: Let’s count who might run for Congress
The most interesting will come in the new 6th congressional district that just about everyone expects to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Mike Pence for a 2012 gubernatorial run.
HOWEY: The beaten path between Indiana and Japan
What has become clear to me … is how important our Japanese friends and partners are to the 21st century Indiana experience.
HOWEY: Retool government into classes of counties
Counties with one or two major cities could have their townships within the urban areas terminated. Townships serving rural areas would continue, but their numbers could be greatly consolidated.
HOWEY: Daniels still thinking outside the rut
With just two years left in his second term—and beginning only his third year with Republican legislative majorities—Gov. Mitch Daniels presides over a state that has been trapped in a jobless rate hovering around 10 percent for two years.
HOWEY: Tea partiers imprudently target Lugar
A question that must be posed to the tea partiers intent on taking Sen. Richard Lugar out: Who replaces him?