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Chris Bailey: Automated license plate readers generate timely leads

July 17, 2026

Our responsibility is to ensure investigators have lawful tools that help them keep pace while respecting constitutional rights.

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McKenzie Conrad and Danielle Drake: Why Indiana should push back on surveillance expansion

July 17, 2026
McKenzie Conrad and Danielle Drake

Data can reveal deeply personal details about someone’s life, including visits to doctors, places of worship or protests.

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Walker Lasbury: Indiana is overdue for plate reader safeguards

July 17, 2026 | Walker Lasbury

Knit together, cameras let police reconstruct an intimate portrait of your life.

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Scott Shoemaker: Cameras provide valued service within current limits

July 17, 2026 | Scott Shoemaker

Murderers, rapists, kidnappers and many other violent criminals are found due to automated license plate readers.

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Tanya Terry: Restrictions aren’t the answer — clear standards are

July 17, 2026 | Tanya Terry

Clear, consistent standards can reinforce accountability and public trust without weakening a tool that continues to save lives.

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Dr. Richard Feldman: Rollback of environmental protections threatens health

July 17, 2026 | Dr. Richard Feldman

The price will be paid in the currency of disease and death.

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George Hornedo: Indianapolis and the value of social connection

July 17, 2026 | George Hornedo

What would it look like to invest in social infrastructure with the same intentionality we bring to physical infrastructure?

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Lindsay Shipps Haake: Navigating grief in all its weird twists and turns

July 17, 2026 | Lindsay Shipps Haake

Grief manifests as a mercurial ghost, shows up in ways you simply cannot prepare for.

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Brad Rateike: With friend’s passing, tears fall and thunder rolls

July 17, 2026 | Brad Rateike

He is the kind of friend you think of often because of how many memories are triggered by everyday things.

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Jim Shella: Remembering 3 good friends in journalism

July 17, 2026 | Jim Shella / Special to IBJ

All served this community with distinction before leaving this earth with little warning.

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Deborah Daniels: At 250, United States offers hope amid its struggles

July 17, 2026 | Deborah Daniels

I have great faith that, as before, we will eventually rise above our current controversies.

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Claire Fiddian-Green: At 11,539 feet, a reminder of what Hoosiers can do

July 17, 2026 | Claire Fiddian-Green

Why, in the middle of the Rockies, is a mountain pass named for Hoosiers?

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Bill Taft: Let’s try thinking like a farmer to grow urban housing

July 17, 2026 | Bill Taft

South Bend has quietly reversed this loss of housing by fostering a community of small developers.

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Dana Black: Legislators shouldn’t have made homelessness a crime

July 17, 2026 | Dana Black

Officially the bill is called a public camping ban, but it really criminalizes homelessness.

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Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: A property tax exam even Superman couldn’t solve

July 17, 2026 | Abdul-Hakim Shabazz

Our exam concerns state Rep. J.D. Prescott’s plan to eliminate property taxes.

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Curt Smith: Soccer has some powerful Indiana political pioneers

July 17, 2026 | Curt Smith / Special to IBJ

Fitting, because America is hosting the World Cup finals this summer while marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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Jennifer Wagner Chartier: What I learned in 100 days spreading unbridled joy

July 17, 2026 | Jennifer Wagner Chartier/ Special to IBJ

As the summer months fade fully into political silly season, I’m going to do my best to hold on to my 100 days of joy.

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Rep. Ed DeLaney: Lesson from my youth: Never play cards with rich kids

July 17, 2026 | Rep. Ed DeLaney / Special to IBJ

The caution in dealing with certain of the rich is ingrained.

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Karen Celestino-Horseman: How to bring about change as a Democrat in Indiana

July 17, 2026 | Karen Celestino-Horseman

Going to rural Indiana and offering nothing but Democratic Socialist or progressive candidates is not going to implement that change.

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Jennifer Wagner Chartier: What should we do to increase voter turnout?

June 19, 2026 | Jennifer Wagner Chartier/ Special to IBJ

Voters should demand more from candidates.

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Jeff Staker: It’s past time for Indiana to approve medical marijuana

June 19, 2026 | Jeff Staker

A federal reclassification means the law now recognizes the plant’s medical value.

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Vicki Becker and Jarrod Holtsclaw: Indiana shouldn’t fall for the myths of medical marijuana

June 19, 2026 | Vicki Becker and Jarrod Holtsclaw

In state after state, the burdens of legal cannabis outweigh the benefits.

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