Randall Shepard: Lugar changed Indiana by focusing on the world
Our connections to the world are more important than ever, and many Hoosiers have put their shoulder to the wheel.
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Our connections to the world are more important than ever, and many Hoosiers have put their shoulder to the wheel.
I wish he would’ve fought for more extensive changes—for a more equitable Unigov.
The senator’s greatest quality was his thoughtfulness and sense of bipartisanship when it came to problem-solving.
There’s plenty of room for talking and listening, developing relationships that aren’t based on immediate wants but on the underlying human desire to learn more.
Have a great party in your cap and gown this weekend, and when the hangover ends, buckle up for the rest of your life.
It will take time for us to demonstrate this initiative is not about politics but rather about relationships.
State lawmakers last month passed a much-ballyhooed law that exempts sales taxes on equipment, infrastructure and electricity costs for sizable data centers constructed in Indiana.
We should find a mechanism to make charitable deductions available to all Americans.
The public deserves to know what goes on in our courtrooms just as much as it deserves to know what goes on in the legislative branches of government.
The evidence is clear that communities need entrepreneurs to step up when times get bad.
The judge overstepped in ruling the entire ACA invalid.
Building a space elevator is an enormous project, and Purdue is the place do it.
State and local leaders seem to agree that Indiana’s Regional Cities Initiative was successful—but don’t expect to see another round of funding for the program anytime soon, if ever.
Despite the lack of language to address the real issues of teacher pay, the Legislature expects the local districts to pay teachers more.
Indianapolis-based Wheaton World Wide Moving is determined not just to survive, but to become an ever-larger player in the residential interstate moving industry.
While the state is a partner in the funding of schools, decisions on teacher pay are made based upon communities’ needs.
A consortium of more than two dozen scientists and engineers proposes an “energy-water corridor” along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is that rarest of modern phenomena: an ecumenical concept with unifying potential, an idea that even sworn enemies can love.
The measure is especially important after the Indiana General Assembly’s failed to act on a similar proposal as well as a bill that would have significantly increased the cigarette tax. That’s despite strong support for both bills from a broad spectrum of business, religious, health and not-for-profit organizations.
Your help is needed in the battle against hunger, a problem that observes no boundaries.
As though the Green New Deal isn’t ridiculous enough, inserting socialist policies like Medicare for All and guaranteed income into the proposal is a transparent and appalling intent to destroy the foundation of America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers and embodied in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.