Infant mortality rate needs to be addressed
South Bend Tribune
For years, there have been more questions than answers about Indiana’s consistently high infant mortality rate.
Why...
Republican actions raising political profile of Ritz
INDIANAPOLIS -- State Sen. Jean Leising went to a local Farm Bureau breakfast expecting to be quizzed on a complicated tax relief bill for...
Many winners if court rules against Obamacare
In less than two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in King v. Burwell, the most important challenge to Obamacare since the court...
ISTEP length shows larger dysfunction
(Terre Haute) Tribune-Star
The headline in the one Indiana newspaper said it all.
“New ISTEP: ‘Train wreck’ waiting to happen?”...
Indiana legislature’s prevailing-wage fight more political than economic
Indiana’s Common Construction Wage Law is typically referred to as a “prevailing-wage” law.
Such laws are a state’s version of the federal...
Energy-production issue shows regressive tax hitting low-, middle-income electricity users
Indiana faces a looming problem in electricity markets that many states have already tackled. It is not an especially complicated issue, but with more...
BIG HACK ATTACKS
INDIANAPOLIS — If you knew what U.S. Sen. Dan Coats knows, you’d think twice before sending that next email.
What the Indiana...
President, Congress face important budget decisions
It may not be obvious from the news coverage, but a good bit of Congress’s 2015 agenda just landed on Capitol Hill with a...
Time limit necessary on Mideast war
We recently marked six months since President Obama unilaterally launched our latest war in the Middle East.
We’ve since hit Islamic State...
Smoking-cessation efforts need boost
South Bend Tribune
Recent information on exposure to secondhand smoke is encouraging. And heartbreaking.
What’s encouraging is that Americans’ exposure...