In the past six years, we’ve watched as four of Indiana’s 11 congressional seats were won by the highest bidder, including one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats. Will the governor’s office be next?

Despite his wild claim, it seems Joe Biden was never arrested during the civil rights movement. The Washington Post awarded "Four Pinocchios" for that whopper. Yet, if racial demagoguery were a crime, Biden would have been locked up long ago.

INDIANAPOLIS — My grandfather was a career educator.

The 2016 presidential campaign called, and it wants its bad ideas back. Regretfully, Indiana’s 2022 U.S. Senate race appears to be headed toward focusing on the worst ideas of one of the worst campaign seasons ever. That is if the incumbent Marine has his way.

Although there are very few things that surprise me in this world, I have to admit I was a bit taken back by some of the reactions on social media lately that I had been shot, booster shot, that is.

These days, we have Denzel Washington.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t much like President Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights.

Politics these days tends to rear its ugly head in the strangest places, ranging from auto racing to the North Pole and onto YouTube.

Last week marked the anniversary of an unprecedented attack on democracy in the United States. Jan. 6 of last year is the day a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop certification of the people’s vote for the highest office in the land.

Late last year, the chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party announced full support for legalizing recreational marijuana and posted on the party’s website that Indiana Democrats are calling on the General Assembly to pass legislation and make it happen. This year, several Democratic and Rep…

Happy New Year! I’ve been vacationing for a couple of weeks, and it’s good to be back with you.

The call came at the wrong moment. A woman who wouldn’t give me her name dialed my office. She wanted to take me to task for criticizing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita. I’d written saying that Rokita’s nonsensical statements that the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t really a problem were, well, nonsense.

Imagine for a moment that Jan. 6, 2021, had ended differently. The possibilities are infinite.

Back in 1976, I read a short newspaper story citing French demographer and scholar Emmanuel Todd, who forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union. In his essay, “The Final Fall,” Todd deduced that the USSR suffered from stagnation, low birth rate and high infant mortality, rising suicides, alc…

Sixty years ago today, I was finishing up my course work of my ninth semester at what was then Anderson College. Holding down a part-time job during most of my college years, I couldn’t complete graduation requirements in four calendar years, so an extra semester was needed. Fortunately, tha…

As I reflect on 2021, I am thinking tomorrow — 2022 — will be a new beginning. I look forward with bright anticipation of what this new year will bring to the Madison County Humane Society.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, has lost her perch on Twitter.

House Bill 1001 would get in the way of employers seeking to make their workplaces free of COVID. The bill is a step in exactly the wrong direction.

One of the great accomplishments of the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was passage into law of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

When Hoosier middle schoolers are taught state standards in U.S. and Indiana history, one focus, out of many, is the effect of slavery and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Last week, the temperatures plummeted to a dangerous low. The Christian Center opened its doors to those with nowhere else to go to seek shelter from the deadly cold.

Two days before Christmas, Valentina Orellana-Peralta was in a Burlington store dressing room in North Hollywood while shopping with her mother for a quinceanera gown.

On Sunday, 3,382 Hoosiers were hospitalized with COVID-19.

The political mood across the nation is fraught with tension and irritability, a situation you would expect to be magnified in states that are closely divided along ideological fault lines.

Sometime soon, members of a select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will release findings related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol. For the sake of our democracy, leaders of both parties should pay attention to what they have to say.

Madison County tends to be driven by forces from the southwest in planning for growth.

You can help push the campaign past the goal again — and maybe even past last year's record. But you don't have to dig deep in your bank account to do so.

Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran …

Mismanagement often takes time to uncover. When it seeps into a government office, the public typically doesn’t know of a problem until an audit is conducted or a candidate begins throwing darts.