There is a community that has grown up around the show, Republicans and Democrats who have new respect for one another, journalists who view politicians in more humane ways, and politicos who better understand journalists’ motives based on what is said both on the air and off.
Those entering the job market increasingly fill temporary, unpaid job openings.
Ballard needs to get some of the vote from what I call the Si Greene’s Pub and Golden Ace Democrats.
The mayor sets a tone—doing the right thing, knowing what our citizens need and hustling for results.
Religion has a role in politics. It can provide the civility that is missing from today’s campaigns.
That the government exploits damages caps to justify harming its people through some sort of cost-benefit analysis is doubtful.
The consequences of permitting a violent response are unacceptable.
The way to begin to reduce the influence of wealthy campaign contributors is to institute a system of public financing.
The really good ones, and by that I mean highly effective politically, whack your senses in such a way that you don’t realize it.
In the last of eight installments of Who’s Who, we profile leaders in education. More than 100 individuals were nominated, representing public and private schools, secondary and post-secondary education, educational think-tanks, legislators and other organizations active in the sphere.
Anita Woudenberg’s [Sept. 12 Forefront column] made a lot of good points about how Hoosiers can solve our own insurance problems in a less-expensive manner than that of a federal mandate.
It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues.
At the cusp of the 2012 race, we have a classic cultural collision between a skinny Eastern egghead lawyer who’s inept in Washington gunfights and a pistol-totin’, lethal-injectin’, square-shouldered cowboy who has no patience for book learnin’.
Recasting any of these alone would be huge. Doing all four at once—when the world has never been more interconnected—is mind-boggling.
Civility in politics isn’t dead. You just have to find the middle ground of funny.
Mike Pence shouldn’t pop any champagne corks, though. Indiana gubernatorial elections have a nasty habit of running counter to national trends.
We are left with the sobering realization that there is no lobby for free-market economics at the Statehouse.
Where would we be without the P.E. MacAllisters of the world? Not just in politics—and there are many Democrats about whom we could ask the same question—but throughout all our society.
The failure to provide comprehensive pre-natal care is dreadful.
Hoage is correct that his office shouldn’t be advising agencies on how to comply with the law, educating them, and also fining them when they misbehave.
