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Democrats couldn’t get away from Barack Obama during the 2010 election cycle. The national mood fueled by frustration over high unemployment and the continued recession, along with opposition to health care reform, carried their opponents into office.
Many voters I talked with wanted to send a wakeup call to politicians of both parties that they should heed the words of Jim Carville to then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Wayne Seybold is well-known as an Olympic ice skater. He is also earning a reputation as an innovative two-term mayor of his hometown of Marion. But few Hoosiers are aware of his role as global trade warrior.
Recent reform measures—aimed at blaming teachers’ unions for all that ails public schools—claim that negotiated agreements are a large part of student achievement problems. Yet research shows that Indiana students fare better in school corporations where teachers have the right to collectively bargain.
Too often, teacher contracts have put the interests of adults above the interests of students. Adults have all the power.
Gov. Mitch Daniels’ upcoming State of the State speech will be the seventh time he has addressed a joint session of the General Assembly, and it’s likely the one that will define his mark on Indiana for years to come.
You can’t successfully govern Indiana with a divide-and-conquer approach. We’re nice people, and we don’t like to be yelled at.
The root of Mitch Daniels’ success can be boiled down to an adherence to three simple concepts: lower taxes, a smaller government and more personal freedom.
If you voted for any Marion County judges in the last several years, you wasted your time. And the county wasted whatever it costs to put the judicial candidates on the ballot.
In the next 10 to 20 years, it will be impossible to tout our region as a world-class center of innovation and entrepreneurship without meaningfully addressing transit.
Despite outperforming not just the Midwest, but America as a whole, long-term challenges facing Marion County put the region at risk.
Medical office likely will be the strongest sector, followed by apartments.
Police say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a woman at a Beech Grove apartment complex. Braxton Vaughn, 25, the adoptive brother of the victim, turned himself in to police Wednesday morning and told them he killed Rachel Wurster, 25, at the Willow Glen Apartments near 9th Avenue and Thompson Road. He was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder.
A Hamilton County teen was killed in a single-car crash at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday. Police say the vehicle left the road for unknown reasons and hit a tree near 256th Street and Lacy Road in Cicero. The driver, a male, died on the scene and a male passenger was transported to Methodist Hospital with minor injuries. Friends said the driver, whose name has not been disclosed, was a 19-year-old Purdue University student and 2010 graduate of Hamilton Heights High School.
An earthquake rattled parts of central Indiana Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 3.8 magnitude quake happened at 7:55 a.m. and was centered about five miles south of Greentown in Howard County. That’s about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis. No damage or injuries were reported.
Booming growth, rising middle classes are attracting investors.
Applications dropped by 34,000, to 388,000, the lowest number since the week of July 12, 2008. The level of applications has either fallen or remained unchanged in five of the past six weeks.
Omnicity Corp. is a half-year behind in payments to a Muncie lender and faces several lawsuits over unpaid bills from companies it acquired.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has appointed new judges in Boone and Shelby counties.
About 200 members of the Hackers and Founders group meet monthly—perhaps the most clear and strong signal that Indianapolis’ young entrepreneur community is reaching a tipping point.
