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Hoosiers are often thought of as resistant to change (daylight-saving time, anyone?).
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Hoosiers are often thought of as resistant to change (daylight-saving time, anyone?).
In these pages last fall, I complained about gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence playing politics with the implementation of federal health reform. Unfortunately, now that he’s been elected governor, the game-playing continues and uninsured Hoosiers continue to be pawns in Pence’s game with federal officials.
One-sixth of our economy has a big question mark around it. It’s OK to call “it” Obamacare now, but we still don’t know what it is.
The local business guys and gals I talk to watch the coming full implementation of Obamacare with a sense of angst.
Fresh analysis released last month on the economic impact of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the satellite industries attracted by its location in Indiana make it clear the General Assembly is on the right track in moving legislation to bolster the track and the jobs it helps create.
Indianapolis is a long way from reaching its potential. Yes, we have advantages with cost of living (compared to both coasts), and great professional sports franchises and an array of quality cultural institutions like the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and many more.
As the end of the annual meeting of our General Assembly draws nigh, it is not inappropriate to once again view both the legislation considered and the general health and well-being of the system itself as it works in the Great Hoosier Heartland.
I’m optimistic about the future of Hoosier Democrats, particularly at the state level and in Marion County. Why, you ask?
As the first governor since the Civil War to win election with less than 50 percent of the vote, Mike Pence has a political capital problem. And it’s starting to show.
Unquestionably, the biggest political news of this young year was the decision by City-County Councilor Jose Evans to join the Republican Party.
It was lunchtime reading unlike any other Craig Dunn had seen.
City-county councilors have a nasty tradition of agreeing with one another to blackball developments within their individual districts.
No one pays attention to a sentence buried in the middle of a recent news story out of Indiana University.
The iKnow system will be introduced alongside other changing features with the launch of ChaCha 2.0, which will likely happen in early April, company founder Scott Jones said.
Quick, describe a Hoosier swing voter. White, married, middle-class male from southern Indiana, somewhere between 35 and 55 years old, right?
A study by the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts shows the biggest driver of health insurance premiums will rise by more than 67 percent for Indiana residents' individual policies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
A Wayne Township firefighter was hospitalized Tuesday morning after ice flew off a pickup truck and knocked out the windshield of the fire truck he was driving. The fire truck was traveling westbound on 21st Street, just east of Girl’s School Road about 10 a.m., prior to the incident. Three other firefighters in the truck were not injured. The pickup truck did not stop. Officials are reviewing camera footage to see if they can track down the vehicle.
Two armed men robbed the Indiana Members Credit Union at 95 S. Mitthoeffer Road in Indianapolis at about noon Monday. The suspects escaped in a blue pickup that was found about an hour later in a nearby apartment complex. Police are investigating.
Officials in the Carmel-Clay Schools district have whittled the list of superintendent candidates to three. The candidates, announced at a board meeting Monday, are Eric Ban, former principal at Crown Point High School; Bruce Hibbard, superintendent of New Albany-Floyd County Schools in southern Indiana; and Mary Ann Dewan, who has held high-ranking positions in the Wayne Township district. Public forums are set for this week, and the school board hopes to make a decision in the next month.
Local retail brokers say Chipotle will occupy the first-floor space of a three-story retail and office building slated to fill the vacant lot at 6 E. Washington St.