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Steak n Shake and the new NEA chief
Should Biglari take Landesman’s remarks as praise where he can get it, or consider them an insult?
Has Bayh’s moment arrived?
Fiscal responsibility could be the mettle Sen. Evan Bayh needs to land in a higher office.
State Senate leaders want to delay jobless-fund tax hikes
The state should delay unemployment tax increases on businesses from 2010 to 2011 to help companies retain workers and possibly
wait long enough for a federal bailout, Republicans who control the Indiana Senate said Tuesday.
Baucus health reform bill draws fire in Indiana, too
The health insurance industry’s sudden counterpunch to the Senate version of health reform echoed in Indiana and
opened a key issue for the rest of the debate: Will covering half of the country’s uninsured mean raising premiums for
the 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance?
Why Indy seems slow to ban smoking
If Indianapolis is considered a model on fronts ranging from downtown revitalization to fiscal responsibility, why is it so
late to ban smoking? George Geib, who has been observing Indianapolis as a Butler University historian for 45 years, thinks
the reluctance can be traced to immigration patterns.
Panel discusses possible changes in redistricting
An interim legislative committee is likely to recommend that new guidelines be established for Indiana lawmakers to follow
when they redraw legislative and congressional maps in 2011, a state senator said Tuesday.
Rokita proposes new plan for redistricting
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita pitched a plan today that would make it illegal for lawmakers to consider political
data when redrawing congressional and legislative district maps.
Democrats eager to face Ballard
Several prominent local Democrats are lining up to challenge Republican Mayor Greg Ballard just two years into his first
term.
Are Indiana Dems brain-dead?
Now that another General Assembly is mercifully behind us, itâ??s a good time to raise a festering question
about the lopsided nature of ideas bantered about the Statehouse in recent years.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has driven a wide-ranging agenda characterized by…
Goldsmithâ??s latest venture
Former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith, never one to let grass grow under his feet, has started a not-for-profit
with one-time presidential candidate Howard Dean to promote Goldsmithâ??s pet cause of public-private partnerships.
The Council of Project Finance Advisors aims…
General Assembly heeds public mayhem, not public policy
Which group should make the spending decisions? Consumers or elected officials?
Fiscal crisis calls for drastic measure
Ind. Gov. Mitch Daniels will call the Legislature into special session to pass an acceptable budget, but some legislators think a budget that would satisfy the governor cannot be crafted by the contentious partisans in this developing fiasco.
Fodder for special session
Charitably speaking, not much got done in the legislative session that ended Wednesday. Now Gov. Daniels plans
to call a special session to force passage of a budget, the only bodyâ??s only legal requirement.
Should anything else be put on the…
President Daniels? Never say never
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would make a remarkable president. Governor/ presidentâ??it’s the same game, just a different scale.
CIB solution may be wrapped into state budget
The Legislature has been behaving as expected lately: little public sound and fury, but action beginning to stir behind the
scenes.
April 17 revenue forecast to drive final days of General Assembly session
Most of the critical work of this state legislative session will occur after April 20, because only then will the General
Assembly have a revenue projection for the next biennium.
Horse trading key to solving unemployment deficit
In the past, lawmakers ignored the need to fix financing for the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, and now they must come
up with solutions that will be difficult for both Democrats and Republicans to accept.
‘Livability’ for Indianapolis
A year into his tenure as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard over the weekend articulated what may be the
closest thing weâ??ll hear for his vision for the city.
Ballardâ??s State of the City address touted making Indianapolis the…
Trickiest legislative issues remain far from resolution
Positive action, action for the sake of action, and inaction were all on tap in the General Assembly in recent days as lawmakers
prepared to wrap up the first half of the session.