Jennifer Wagner Chartier: These women are simply better-qualified candidates
It’s worth noting that both parties have done laudable work training up female candidates.
It’s worth noting that both parties have done laudable work training up female candidates.
Service is presented not as a moment in time but as a continuum.
The way we sort and dismiss differing views makes it nearly impossible to have rational conversations about anything.
Marion County has been trending Democratic for some time, which means many of our primary elections are actually general elections.
There in the halls of the Statehouse, face to face, it’s possible for a connection to occur.
Lawmakers don’t hear ‘well done’ as often as they hear ‘what the heck’ from their constituents, or even from the groups lobbying them.
“[Pay transparency] will lift the veil of salary secrecy and benefit those who’ve long been at a disadvantage when it comes to equal pay.”
More than 150 Indiana companies banded together to support including LGBTQ Hoosiers in the state’s nondiscrimination law.
To quote a Luke Bryan song from a couple of years back, ‘I believe most people are good.
Democrats are happy to talk about Georgians’ future and actual concerns while Republicans wallow in conspiracy theories about the past.
I felt like the questions were very much in touch with the issues local residents and workers are facing.
Therapy as a preventive measure is expensive, but it’s worth every penny to have what has been described to me as a ‘paid friend.’
While some might see empty office buildings as bleak reminders of the pandemic, we should see them as canvasses on which to experiment.
The hard part … is setting expectations about where we can win—and where we can’t.
“Instead of focusing on timing, let’s make the process more transparent by requiring donations be reported within seven days of receipt.”
Our Founding Fathers set up a political system where one person actually can’t do it all.
The question we have to answer is whether continuing to invest in a traditional fixed-route system with full-size buses is the way of the future, especially as new technologies come online.
Engaging at the Statehouse has always felt overwhelming for those who don’t do it for a living. We should be doing everything in our power to ease that burden—permanently—as a result of the pandemic.
Starting a career in a profession like cosmetology can be a way out of poverty. … But the barrier to entry is more than $10,000. That’s a pretty expensive ticket to pursue the American Dream.
We need empathy … like we’ve never needed it before if we’re ever going to rebuild trust in one another and in our political system.