Muncie schools need stability bill offers
By Michael J. Hicks
House Bill 1315 would shift the responsibility for Muncie Community Schools from the state’s appointed manager to Ball State University’s trustees....
Muncie schools need stability bill offers
By Michael J. Hicks
House Bill 1315 would shift the responsibility for Muncie Community Schools from the state’s appointed manager to Ball State University’s trustees....
Year in state politics full of drama, intrigue
It’s time for my top 10 state and local stories of 2017. Yes, we know there were a lot of national events taking place,...
A Trump-induced disaster builds for the GOP
INDIANAPOLIS — Republicans are staring at a mid-term electoral disaster in 2018, both here in Indiana and across America’s amber waves of grain.
After a...
A Trump-induced disaster builds for the GOP
INDIANAPOLIS — Republicans are staring at a mid-term electoral disaster in 2018, both here in Indiana and across America’s amber waves of grain.
After a...
Medicare and drug coverage: Some good news, some bad
By Wendell Potter
One of the benefits of the Affordable Care Act to Medicare beneficiaries has been the gradual closing of a big and costly...
Saving lives: Fighting opioid epidemic top priority
By Steve Davisson
Recently, state lawmakers met at the Statehouse for Organization Day, which ceremonially marks the start of the 2018 legislative session.
While session doesn’t...
Tax reform talk needs more common sense
By Michael Tanner
Even in a town where overheated rhetoric comes as naturally as breathing, the reaction to the Senate version of the Republican tax...
Beauty for Ashes makes impact
By Keia Blair
Upon coming to Zimbabwe, my team and I discussed our hopes and dreams of hosting our very own Beauty for Ashes retreat...
Thanksgiving date came with controversy
By Larry DeBoer
Here’s a recipe for partisan controversy, from 1939.
Ingredient one: It was traditional for the president of the United States to declare a...