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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.
Change is hard, for sure. But the stirring of citizens’ souls in this country is exciting. “Take it back!” I shout.
Is it right to allow kids to suffer because of their parents’s choices?
Libraries, like roads, are government where nearly everyone wants it.
Until some reasonable change in the legislation is made, we will continue to have a system that is unfair and impossible to enforce.
If these funds are completely spent on infrastructure repairs or even enhancing service programs by capitalizing a new endowment, we will miss an opportunity to attract a far greater investment in transforming our core city.
In addition to his clothes, confidentiality and dignity, he has been stripped of his committee chairmanships.
Money and experience have flowed to a number of firms from Software Artistry executives.
It seems that, for those fighting the hardest to stay afloat in this economy, the hits just keep coming.
In a telling exchange, an education expert at a local advocacy group with whom I spoke reported that she home-schooled her children with special needs. This is not at all uncommon.
The factory system is no longer acceptable. We now demand professionalism from our teachers and a system that adapts to each child’s particular needs.
The group overseeing redevelopment of a former Army chemical weapons depot in western Indiana is targeting major projects for the 11-square-mile property.
Lincoln Plowman, a former Indianapolis City-County councilman and Indianapolis police officer convicted of bribery and extortion, filed an appeal Tuesday, asking a federal judge to reverse the jury’s decision. Plowman was found guilty Sept. 15 of soliciting an undercover FBI agent to pay him $5,000 in cash and make a $1,000 campaign contribution in exchange for Plowman’s help with zoning for a strip club. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the attempted extortion conviction and 10 years and a $250,000 fine for the bribery conviction.
Police say Douglas Vieth, 44, shot his ex-girlfriend through an apartment door late Tuesday, then turned the gun on himself several hours later after fleeing the scene. Kelly Williams, 40, was shot in the arm in an apartment in the 1200 block of North Lakeview Circle in Franklin about 11 p.m. Tuesday. She told police she recently broke off her relationship with Vieth. Vieth, who was pulled over by police in Huntington County about 3 a.m. Wednesday, used a handgun to shoot himself in the head three times. He was hospitalized in Fort Wayne in critical condition.