KINGSOLVER: Graduating from college, with trepidation
Those entering the job market increasingly fill temporary, unpaid job openings.
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.
Religion has a role in politics. It can provide the civility that is missing from today’s campaigns.
The way to begin to reduce the influence of wealthy campaign contributors is to institute a system of public financing.
State lawmakers could take up a proposal next year that would make unemployment benefits more flexible and give companies additional options for cutting back on employee hours through work-share programs.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett said during a Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce forum on Tuesday that he understands the changes he has advocated make many teachers and other uncomfortable.
Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr. has spent 30 years fighting limits on campaign spending, and next year’s political landscape could be transformed by his labor.
Indianapolis is soliciting proposals for its drop-off recycling program with the aim of boosting participation in the initiative.
U.S. farmers earning record profits are fighting to maintain agricultural subsidies, a likely target of the congressional supercommittee working to reduce federal spending.
Former Indiana Republican Party Chairman Virgil Scheidt died Sunday at age 83 at a hospice in Columbus. Scheidt was a longtime Republican activist who became the Bartholomew County GOP chairman in 1966 and held that position until he was elected the party’s state chairman in 1989. He resigned as state chairman in 1993.
In an election cycle focused on jobs, campaign material made by foreign workers tends to become political kryptonite.
The three Indiana cities had among the largest 2010 increases in the U.S. in the value of goods and services they produce.
Federal officials on Friday denied Indiana's request to use a state public health savings account to help cover the half-million people who will become eligible for Medicaid in 2014, saying the request was premature and leaving the state program's future in flux.
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.
The Indiana Election Commission has dismissed — for now — a campaign finance complaint involving House Democrats who staged a five-week walkout earlier this year.
More than a year from Election Day, all sorts of Republicans, including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, are making a point of keeping themselves in the national spotlight, stoking speculation that they are potential running mates for the eventual GOP presidential nominee.
Workers taking voluntary buyouts will no longer be eligible for state unemployment benefits in Indiana beginning Saturday, and severance pay will be counted against unemployment payouts.
The library is giving copies of “Slaughterhouse-Five” to students in Republic, Mo., where school officials have deemed the book inappropriate.
The main reason I would vote to re-elect Mayor Ballard is that I am an avid and devoted cyclist.
I was amused after reading the Sept. 26 letter to the editor from District 4 Republican City-County Councilor Christine Scales.