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Bill would restrict voting by out-of-state college students
By Samm Quinn TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Legislation that could ban out-of-state students from voting in their college towns met significant opposition in a committee meeting Wednesday. The bill’s author, Rep. Peggy Mayfield, R-Martinsville, said it would require out-of-state students who want to vote in Indiana to prove to county clerks that they are in the [...]
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Commentary: How red is Indiana?
By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz IndyPolitics.org Although Democrats scored major victories in 2012 with the U.S. Senate race and superintendent of public instruction, when it comes to the rest of the state, Indiana is a lot more “red” than anyone could possibly imagine. For example, take the Indiana House of Representatives, where Republicans picked up a super-majority, [...]
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Commentary: System elects partisans who don’t represent Americans
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – So, the deep thinkers in Congress managed to get a deal that would avoid the fiscal cliff disaster that they devised themselves, but not before demonstrating, once again, how dysfunctional our political culture is. The deal that our leaders arrived at pleased almost no one. And the way they [...]
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Analysis: A crowded news year’s top stories
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – It wasn’t easy to pick out the Top 10 government and political stories in a year so packed with interesting issues and campaigns. And it was even tougher to rank the stories I settled on. Of course, you’re likely to quibble with my choices and already I’ve seen other [...]
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Voter turnout down from 2008
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – About 58 percent of registered Hoosiers turned out to vote this fall, a drop of 4 percentage points from the 2008 presidential election, according to data released Thursday by the state’s top election official. Secretary of State Connie Lawson, a Republican, said roughly 2.66 million Indiana residents went to the [...]
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Commentary: Tantrums don’t lead to a productive democracy
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Consider this fair warning: I’m about to sound like a crotchety old man. That’s because I’ve got to ask a crotchety old man’s question: Just at what point did we become a nation of whiny spoiled brats who dissolve into temper tantrums every time something doesn’t go our way? [...]
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Glenda Ritz win in Indiana just one of the union victories nationwide
By Melissa Maynard and Ben Wieder Stateline.org No state has ushered in more education changes over the past four years than Indiana. The Hoosier state instituted an A to F grading system for schools,linked teacher evaluations to student performance, scaled back teacher tenure and created one of the nation’s broadest private school voucher programs. Those changes attracted national [...]
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Commentary: Voters like candidates who articulate a way forward
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Almost as soon as the 2012 election was over, the post-mortems and finger-pointing began. At the national level, Republicans lost big. They dropped the White House, lost two seats in the Senate and, while they retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, it appears that the overall popular [...]
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Q&A: Glenda Ritz says she’s wants to create ‘inclusive’ education policy
By Tim Grimes TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Democrat Glenda Ritz defeated Republican Tony Bennett in a surprise upset for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction last week. The teacher and librarian at Crooked Creek Elementary in Indianapolis did it by bringing together educators, parents and others frustrated by some of the big changes Bennett has [...]
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Commentary: Now is time to take stock of changes
By Cam Savage TheStatehouseFile.com You can try to put it off if you want, but with the 2013 legislative session behind us, it seems a natural time to turn to politics and political speculation. But, egads, what’s this? There are no elections this year in Indiana? Yep, that’s right. New Jersey and Virginia will elect [...]