As Hoosiers celebrate the conclusion of a truly remarkable Super Bowl experience, there is even more good news that should fill us with pride.

February 12, 2012  

It seems the Southwest Parke schools are the latest to play the laptop lottery game.

February 5, 2012  

About six years ago at the pinnacle of the Bush/GOP Dictatorship, I began telling you that the wealthy and Corporate America were laying the ground work to politically, financially and physically take over America.

January 29, 2012  

Brian Howey’s Jan. 8 column about the U.S. Senate race proves once again that he will not allow the facts or journalistic ethics to get in the way of attacking Richard Mourdock and promoting his chosen candidate, Dick Lugar.

January 22, 2012  

This time of year, with chords of Auld Lang Syne still ringing in our ears, it’s not uncommon or unnatural to think of days gone by as being more desirable than the era we live in today. 

January 15, 2012  

You may have heard about the upcoming “right-to-work” legislation before our lawmakers in the next session of “law making.”

January 8, 2012  

As the 2012 Indiana Legislative Assembly convenes, January will represent a tipping point for all Hoosiers’ individual freedoms as politicians and Big Labor draw battle lines to determine if Indiana will become the 23rd right-to-work state.

January 8, 2012  

As the leaders of single-party control in state government outline their agendas for the 2012 session of the Indiana General Assembly, it is easy to be cynical about their intentions in the months to come.

January 1, 2012  

In the 1970s, I began what was three decades in the automotive industry. ... Today, in my position as president of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, I see higher education confronted with some of these same challenges.

December 25, 2011  

The danger contained in these three simple words – “Right to Work” — is that they sound so innocent.

December 18, 2011  

We are living through one of the most remarkable times in recent history.

December 11, 2011  

I’ve been involved in selling fresh Christmas trees for as long as I can remember.

December 4, 2011  

When I awoke to the news that CBS’s “60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney had passed away I was truly saddened.

November 20, 2011  

As near as I can figure from a recent story in the newspaper, our government representatives, state and local, are scrambling to find money to give to Menards because of a distribution center they are thinking about building on the city’s North Side.

November 14, 2011  

The records in the Indiana State Archives are priceless, one-of-a-kind treasures not to be found anywhere else.

October 30, 2011  

The records in the Indiana State Archives are priceless, one-of-a-kind treasures not to be found anywhere else.

October 30, 2011  

A week before I left Indiana to lead my fifth international trade mission, I met with students at Speedway High School who had visited Japan two years ago. They were sharing their advice on Japanese protocol.

October 23, 2011  

It is a question asked routinely — almost reflexively — during the last days of a General Assembly: “Will the Chamber score this?”

October 16, 2011  

Back in 1982, Mississippi’s powerful U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis faced a tough re-election fight. Advisers told him he had an ace up his sleeve: as chairman of the Armed Service Committee, he could raise bundles of campaign cash from defense contractors. But Stennis balked. “Would that be proper?” he asked. “I hold life and death over these companies.”

October 9, 2011  

Indiana has a number of fiscal hawks among our elected officials who talk tough about ending subsidies and cutting wasteful projects.

October 6, 2011  

This is in reference to the Tribune-Star story of Aug. 6 concerning the Terre Haute Sherwin-Williams plant’s intention to close by end of the year:

October 2, 2011  

With the beginning of the school year, it is apparent that Terre Haute is a college town in many respects, especially for those who live in the Farrington’s Grove neighborhood, south of downtown.

September 25, 2011  

The Delph family excursion through southern Indiana over the Labor Day weekend was as memorable as it was enjoyable. Lilly turned 5 and got to spend her birthday at Holiday World riding rides and eating sweets. Abby got to drive Dad around on the pretend cars foretelling our new world order. Emma, Anna and Evelyn further cemented their status as rollercoaster girls dragging Mom and Dad on the Voyage, arguably the most brutal ride of all for parents.

September 19, 2011  

When a student recently asked what was “the hardest story” I had to cover during my 26 years working at CNN, the question caught me off guard.

September 18, 2011  

Over 50 million Americans live in areas where there are simply not enough health care providers to meet their basic needs.

September 15, 2011  

On the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, my family and I gathered to watch the unending news reports and the searing images of our homeland under attack.

September 11, 2011  

As summer draws to a close and next year’s political campaigns get down to brass tacks, you’re going to be hearing a lot more from politicians seeking your vote.

September 4, 2011  

Since the 2010 mid-term elections, House Speaker John Boehner and his blindly dedicated Republican followers have not introduced a single bill for job creation.

September 1, 2011  

Elected officials accept public debate.

August 28, 2011  

Real incidents that engage national, state and local health professionals can be far more fascinating than television investigative dramas and are clearly more important.

August 25, 2011