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.
Quick, describe a Hoosier swing voter. White, married, middle-class male from southern Indiana, somewhere between 35 and 55 years old, right?
I’ve been feeling a bit reflective lately as I just completed 22 years at IBJ a few weeks ago.
Thoughts on the latest from DK, Acting Up, and an American Pianists Association fellow.
When it comes to choosing the products or services offered by the investment industry, the evidence suggests that when investors pay less, they often get more.
The 10th anniversary of the start of the second Iraq war is an opportunity to reflect upon the economics of the conflict.
Last in a month-long series of farm-to-table restaurant reviews.
The list of lightning-rod issues is long and, unfortunately, growing.
Years ago, the high-tech company that drove me closest to the edge of madness was Microsoft. That firm treated its customers as if they were lucky to have computers. But for sheer frustration, I think Google tops Microsoft.
We’re just a few short weeks from the mid-April revenue forecast, the critical non-political, non-policy factor that will shape the fiscal 2014-2015 budget—and a handful of other big-buck key bills.
I write in support of Senate Bill 207, which reinstates in-state tuition rates to undocumented students who were enrolled in a state college or university in 2011.
he architecture of Michael Graves is controversial. Some dismiss his work for its post-modern and overly decorative qualities.
I continue to be amazed by the pundits and politicians who insist that eviscerating government programs will save money.
