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Brian A. Howey @ September 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Barack Obama returned to Indiana - a battleground state - on Saturday and suggested to a crowd in Terre Haute “They must think you’re stupid.” Appearing at the Wabash Valley 4-H Fairgrounds with U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, Obama warned, “Don’t be fooled, John McCain’s party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge” [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In their first joint apperance of the fall campaign, Gov. Mitch Daniels and Democrat nominee Jill Long Thompson talked and took questions at the Indianapolis Chamber’s 8th annual Hobnob at the Indiana State Museum. Their appearance came shortly after the Howey-Gauge Poll Briefing showed Daniels with a 53-35 percent lead (see story below, toplines in [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # One Comment
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Hoosiers are likely to find themselves at the American political epicenter over the next 60 days as the latest Howey-Gauge Poll shows Republican John McCain with a 45-43 percent lead over Democrat Barack Obama. The companion race shows Gov. Mitch Daniels maintaining a significant 53 to 35 percent lead over [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Read the complete coverage of the latest Howey-Gauge Poll below and view the complete toplines in the Indiana Poll Center Category on the right side of this page.
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Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By DAVE KITCHELL
LOGANSPORT - Maybe the arrival of Hurricane Gustav as the timely transition between the two major party national conventions was symbolic of what’s to come in the weeks ahead.
Gustav didn’t turn out to be the perfect storm, but it’s apparent the winds of change are blowing. Even as Americans were learning more about [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MORTON J. MARCUS
INDIANAPOLIS - Have you read the Kernan-Shepard Report? Don’t feel guilty, few have. Its more formal name is “Streamlining Local Government, We’ve got to stop governing like this.” It’s a very strong, readable statement for reforming local government. Unfortunately it does not get to our root problem: local governments are creatures [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Doug Ross, Times of Northwest Indiana: Next Friday, I plan to listen to evangelist Joe Kernan preaching in Gary. Kernan, the former Indiana governor, plans to tell the Northwest Indiana Quality of Life Council about streamlining local government. It’s a subject he knows well. Kernan, a Democrat, is a co-author of last December’s report from [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
BY MARK SCHOEFF JR.
WASHINGTON - In his best-selling book “Blink,” consultant and acclaimed big-thinker Malcolm Gladwell posits that people make their best decisions by not over thinking them–essentially, by going with their gut instincts.
Perhaps the biggest “blink” in Sen. John McCain’s life, selecting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on the GOP presidential [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - For the second time within the amazing political year of 2008, a political rising star shot across the sky. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joins the too-good-to-be-true-Hollywood script with Barack Obama after delivering a magnificent introductory address at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. With camera flashes sparkling off her eyeglasses, [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Echoing Barack Obama’s comment last April that Indiana could be the “tiebreaker,” his national and Indiana campaign said today the state could decide the presidential race on Nov. 4. “If we were to win every John Kerry state plus Iowa, we’d have 259 Electoral College votes,” said deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand. “Indiana has 11 [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who only eight years ago was on a the Democratic ticket that lost to President George W. Bush, addressed the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Tuesday night and said that country matters over party. “When they look to Washington, all too often they do not see their leaders coming together [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - If you are a delegate to the Republican National Convention, there are reasons to exhale that sigh of relief, albeit temporarily.
The price of a barrel of oil declined to $106 in Asia from an all time high of just under $150 earlier this summer. In the U.S., it had declined [...]
Brian A. Howey @ September 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - The Democratic National Convention is over, even as the stirring rhetoric of Barack Obama still echoes from the Rocky Mountains. Many questions remain.
Q. Did Democrats get that big bump in approval needed for Obama to win the presidency?
A. Probably not. Certainly not yet. There may be a bump up [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By DAVE KITCHELL
LOGANSPORT - For those wondering how far John McCain was willing to search for an ideal running mate, the answer has become, “As far as he could go in the United States as possible.”
When he introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his choice for vice president Friday, McCain turned some tables on Barack [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama’s rhetoric soared to the rim of a stadium a mile high Thursday night, but the central message and the impressive set were grounded in the realities of the coming slugfest with John McCain. Obama opted for an acceptance speech with a distinct political nature, mentioning McCain a dozen [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By MARK SCHOEFF JR.
WASHINGTON–Sen. Barack Obama made history Thursday night by accepting the Democratic nomination for president. On the 45th anniversary of Dr.Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Obama became the first African American to have his name placed at the top of the ballot.
As expected in an Obama speech, there were [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - Amid stirring rhetoric captivating a football stadium crowd of 80,000 Thursday night in a Colorado Rockies setting, Barack Obama asked Hoosiers back on the level ground of Indiana to vote for themselves.
No, he wasn’t suggesting that they write in their own names on Nov. 4 ballots. And he wasn’t speaking [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - John McCain took the biggest roll of the veepstakes dice today since Dan Quayle when he tabbed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee.
The former mayor of Wasilla, she is the mother of five with one of her sons preparing for a tour of duty in Iraq. She [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - We conducted this telephone interview with U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh late Tuesday afternoon from Denver at the Democratic National Convention.
HPI: Did you get the text message from the Obama campaign at 3 a.m?
Bayh: I’m happy to report I was happily asleep at 3 a.m. because Barack and I had spoken [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - If you’re looking at trendlines, there is little good news for Democrat Jill Long Thompson. While she’s up on TV, it’s not a statewide buy. It doens’t include South Bend and Fort Wayne markets. Thompson’s backers point out that Northern Indiana is her home base, but Gov. Mitch Daniels’ campaign [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
KOKOMO - One of the not-so-secret secrets of vice presidential vetting is that much of it is simple, old school patronage: for show, as a favor, to stoke egos. Come through with an early endorsement? Represent a key constituency? Hail from a critical swing state? It’s not going to get you the vice [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Mark Bennett, Terre Haute Tribune-Star: Thousands of Wabash Valley residents could’ve qualified as Barack Obama’s running mate. As he considered potential vice presidential candidates last week, Obama said, “I want somebody who’s mad right now that people are losing their jobs, and is mad right now that people are seeing their incomes decline.” Technically, that [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
180 CONVENTION PARTIES ACROSS STATE: “I’ve been all around the world and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Darrell Shouse remarked (Terre Haute Tribune-Star). Standing in the parking lot at Fifth Street and Wabash Avenue Thursday night, with a crowd that swelled from 80 at 9:30 p.m. to more than 150 by 10:20 p.m., the [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will join John McCain on the Republican ticket at Dayton later this morning. Palin is a former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and was elected governor in 2006. She is known as a maverick and reformer. She is the mother of five children. Watch for further reaction in the weekly Howey Politics [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Barack Obama opted for an acceptance speech with a distinct political nature before 70,000 people at Invesco Field in Denver and a national television audience Thursday night. He mentioned John McCain a dozen times and at one point questioned his determination on hunting down Osama bin Laden. McCain’s compaign aired a congratulatory TV ad lauding [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - President Lincoln was once asked what makes a good politician. And the man who was 3-2 in political races, winning a U.S. House seat, losing two Senate races before claiming the American presidency twice, answered, “To be able to raise a cause which will produce an effect, and then fight [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Former President Bill Clinton left no doubt about whether Barack Obama is prepared for the Oval Office on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. “Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States,” Clinton said. “Everything I learned in eight years as your president has convinced me that Barack Obama is [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An animated U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh took on John McCain during a six-minute speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. “Do you remember when the president said, ‘Mission accomplished? Bring ‘em on?’” Bayh asked. “The terrorists did come on and our brave soldiers were killed because of their reckless incompetence.” Bayh said that U.S. [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - We all know by now what the meaning of is … is. Right?
What we don’t know is how former President Bill Clinton will behave at the Democratic National Convention in Denver tonight. As I predicted 24 hours ago, Hillary Clinton ladeled on enough praise for Barack Obama during her Tuesday [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With his third veepstakes journey beginning in early July and ending last Thursday afternoon with a “kind” phone call from Barack Obama as a “surreal” environment unfolded on his front lawn, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh was philosophical about his brush with a heartbeat away. In an interview of Howey Politics Indiana’s Brian A. Howey Tuesday, [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton delivered an emphatic endorsement of Barack Obama during her Democratic National Convention speech Tuesday night in Denver, declaring at the beginning that she is “a proud supporter of Barack Obama.” Clinton, who won 23 primaries and attracted 18 million votes, told the convention, “You haven’t worked so hard over the last [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - So the torch has passed from the Kennedys …
… to the Clintons.
All eyes and ears of the free world will be on that flashy podium in Denver tonight when Hillary Clinton takes the stage. There has been plenty of speculation on whether the Clintons will get on board the Obama [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - John Kerry snatched defeat from the jaws of victory four years ago by assuming that the voters, presumably sick of negative attacks, would respond favorably to a positive message.
Speakers at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston were instructed by Kerry strategists to avoid attacking President Bush and Republicans and [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Michelle Obama, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and is poised to become the first African-American First Lady, addressed the Democratic National Convention, attempting to put behind controversial remarks from earlier this year to with the story of her American life. On the way, she became the first in the Obama circle [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
America’s First Daughter - Caroline Kennedy - paid moving tributes to Barack Obama and her uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “Their stories are very different, but they share a commitment to the timeless American ideals of justice and fairness, service and sacrifice, faith and family,” said Kennedy. [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - About that phone call at 3 a.m. … I was asleep. Sawing wood. Counting sheep. Dreaming of Dewey’s defeat of Truman.
But that’s when Barack Obama’s campaign sent out the text message early Saturday morning announcing that U.S. Sen. Joe Biden would be his running mate. It capped a bizarre week [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, former Congressman Lee Hamilton and Beech Grove resident Mike Fisher are Hoosiers who will address the Democratic National Convention from this podium in Denver this week. Hamilton and Fisher, whose family had lunch with Barack and Michelle Obama last Spring prior to a town hall meeting at Garfield Park in Indianapolis, will [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By DAVE KITCHELL
LOGANSPORT - As the hours wound down before the inevitable announcement of Barack Obama’s running mate, the rumors dominated. The only good rumor for Evan Bayh was that a company in Kansas was manufacturing bumper stickers with Obama’s name and Bayh’s. Rumors like that one pointed to a number of candidates. Just after [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - Once again, after widespread speculation about possible selection of Sen. Evan Bayh as a vice presidential nominee, the Indiana Democrat is left standing, again a Bayhstander rather than running with Barack Obama.
Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden of Deleware as his choice for vice president was disappointing for Bayh and [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
NASHVILLE, Ind. - U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh praised Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden as an "outstanding public servant with deep experience" today. His statement came hours after a 3 a.m. text message to supporters from the Obama campaign that elevated Biden to the Democratic ticket.
And it ended a two-month long roller [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By CHRIS SAUTTER
WASHINGTON - I ran into Evan Bayh in late July at a Capitol Hill event for Indiana House Speaker Pat Bauer. Bayh was chatty, almost nervously so, as rumors swirled that he was on Barack Obama’s short list for Vice President. He told me how events during the past couple of years have [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For the third time, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh apparently won’t make the leap to his lifelong goal of an office in the White House. CNN, citing two Democratic sources, is reporting that Bayh will not run with Barack Obama, ABC News is reporting that U.S. Sen. Joe Biden may be in line for the nomination. MSNBC’s [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh’s home is being staked out by national media this morning as Barack Obama reportedly began making phone calls to losing veepstakes contestants Thursday night. CNN has a live camera on the Bayh home and others at the homes of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine in Richmond and U.S. Sen. Joe Biden in [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This is the printable version of the Aug. 21, 2008 Howey Politics Indiana. Click on the PDF icon below, bring it to your desktop, and print as you normally would.
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Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
NASHVILLE, Ind. - During the Clinton-Obama Indiana primary drama, we were struck at the number of Democrats, particularly in Southern Indiana, who said that the junior Illinois senator would not run well there. Perry County’s Dean Boerste told us at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner that he would be surprised if Obama could get [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - It’s 3 a.m. and I’m glancing at my phone. It isn’t ringing.
I am joined by Evan and Susan Bayh. They always have a phone nearby, waiting for The Call from the steely and stealthly Barack Obama. So do Eric Holcomb and Cam Savage of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ re-election campaign. And [...]
ryan @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
INDIANAPOLIS - Healthcare policy took center stage last Tuesday for Jill Long Thompson, who announced at McGinty Conveyors on Indianapolis’s Westside a proposal to create a quasi-governmental agency to administer a small business health insurance pool.
The announcement is renewing attention on Indiana’s burgeoning health care costs, in a state with more than half [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - When Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard called parks a "drain" on the city’s budget, it prompted outrage from friends of green spaces, and made even some of his most ardent supporters wince.
The rollout of this idea, coming in an off-handed remark at an Indianapolis Star editorial board meeting, was amateurish in [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - During the Major Moves debate in 2006, Gov. Mitch Daniels described it as the "jobs bill of a generation." Upon passage, then House Speaker Brian Bosma predicted it would put 130,000 Hoosiers to work.
This past year, with a recession looming, Daniels talked of how Major Moves might have [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rich James, Post-Tribune: There is someone lurking in the halls at the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point. Actually, there is a lot of lurking going on. But this person is sharper than most of the knives in the drawer. No one knows who he is. If they do, they aren’t saying. His name [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
170 JOBS COMING TO LIGONIER: A Noble County auto parts manufacturer plans to rev up its operation by adding a production line and hiring more than 170 workers within three years (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette). Millennium Industries Corp. announced Wednesday it will invest more than $9.2 million to upgrade equipment and expand its Ligonier plant. [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gov. Mitch Daniels and Sen. John McCain have leads outside the margin of error in the latest SurveyUSA polls in Indiana. Daniels leads Democrat Jill Long Thompson 52-38 percent. In the presidential race, John McCain had a 50-44 percent lead over Barack Obama in Indiana. Compared to eight weeks ago, Obama lost 3 percent and [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It appears that Barack Obama’s pre-Democratic presidential nomination sequence will go full circle, with his vice presidential rollout coming Saturday at the place where his campaign began: at the Old Illinois Capitol across the street from the historic Lincoln & Herndon Law Offices in Springfield. The Obama campaign has scheduled the capitol site for Saturday [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By DAVE KITCHELL
LOGANSPORT - By this point in the long history of our country, I think most adult Americans have become so numb to stories about politicians and trysts, we’ve grown weary of the shock value. Even at that, last week when word spread that former presidential candidate John Edwards had admitted to an affair [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh’s hopes of joining the Democratic presidential ticket with Barack Obama might have come down to his wife’s service on seven corporate boards. Bloomberg News reported today that Susan Bayh’s board directorships on companies like Eli Lilly, Wellpoint, E*Trade Bank and Emmis Communications raise "questions about potential conflicts of interest from his [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gotten the message on allowing a vote for more oil drilling. Pelosi changed her position on a recent radio address, saying she would consider allowing a vote. Pence, who has taken to the House floor during the August recess to push for the vote, said Monday, “Since Congress [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - It was a Hoosier - Hoagy Carmichael - who wrote the stirring music for the song "Georgia On My Mind." We all know it, so let’s sing along (in our minds) …
"Georgia, sweet Georgia, no peace I find, Just an old sweet song, Keeps Georgia on my mind, [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - Rush Limbaugh was dreaming of riots in Denver at the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Something like the riots at the party’s 1968 convention in Chicago.
Then came the call on the Focus on the Family Web site to pray for torrential rain in Denver on the night Barack Obama is to [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh from Indiana and Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota defended their candidates’ stances on Russia and the conflict in Georgia on Face The Nation on Sunday. The appearance came on the eve of Barack Obama’s expected selection of a vice president. It came as Obama had a 47-41 percent lead over [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Air Force Blue Angels fly by the John Hancock Building during the 50th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show Saturday. More than a million people gathered off the Chicago coast and along the shoreline to watch the show. This photo was taken aboard the Polaris, owned by Ray Irvin and based in Michigan City. [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - The culmination of Evan Bayh’s quarter century political career with an eye on the White House could come down to this weekend. If Barack Obama selects him for the Democratic ticket, he has a path to the White House over the course of the next eight years. It appears that Sen. Bayh is [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By DAVE KITCHELL
LOGANSPORT - Forget Olympic shirts featuring Michael Phelps, Indiana State Fair souvenir shirts and college shirts with your alma mater emblazoned on the front. If there is a such a thing as an unofficial official shirt for Indiana voters this year, it belongs to one woman I saw recently in West Lafayette. The [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Healthcare policy took center stage Tuesday for Jill Long Thompson, who announced at McGinty Conveyors on Indianapolis’s Westside a proposal to create a quasi-governmental agency to administer a small business health insurance pool. The plan would offer tax incentives, financed by last year’s three-cent increase in the cigarette tax, in the form of a credit [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gov. Mitch Daniels says schools must find a way to increase spending in Hoosier classrooms, and he will propose actions to free resources for student learning. Daniels will ask the next Indiana General Assembly to require that schools work through the Indiana Department of Administration (IDOA) to purchase goods and services unless they can show [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At approximately 1:30 p.m. Monday Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard was admitted to Community East Hospital with chest pains and shortness of breath. Doctors ran an EKG and the Mayor underwent a stress test, the results of both tests were normal. The Mayor was released from the hospital at 4:30 p.m. Monday and will continue to [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By JACK COLWELL
SOUTH BEND - As John McCain and Barack Obama ponder how to introduce to the nation their choices for vice president, they have a perfect example of how Not to do it. Exactly 20 years ago this week, George H.W. Bush introduced Dan Quayle as his choice for a vice-presidential running mate.
The way [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With Barack Obama vacationing in Hawaii this coming week, the attention shifts from Sen. Evan Bayh’s vice presidential prospects to the Indiana gubernatorial race where both campaigns are expected to announce policy rollouts. Gov. Mitch Daniels will begin to articulate his K-12 and higher education plans for a second term beginning with a Monday morning press [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The jobs debate continued to simmer heading in the weekend as Democrat Jill Long Thompson cited plant closings in Peru and Goshen as further evidence that the state is not making progress. She described closings by Keystone RV in Goshen and Trelleborg Automotive in Peru as being "akin to the old saying - death by [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Speaking from behind the towering mugs of Spaten Lager at the Rathskeller restaurant on the Eve of Evan Bayh’s Elkhart Audition, Luke Messer posed this question: "What if Evan Bayh doesn’t get it? It could hurt Obama here in Indiana."
I could not dismiss this out of hand or mug.
Messer is [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
PORTAGE - The two of them looked like a ticket Wednesday. In red ties, suit jackets in absentia, one in white, the other in complementing blue, and with sleeves rolled up to their elbows, the Obama-Bayh tour of Schoops Hamburgers in Portage was a sight to be seen.
And perhaps it will be: all [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - While the 18th Barack Obama office was opened in Republican Greenwood of all places this past week, our eyes turned to the Indiana campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. It will be a more traditional effort with Jen Hallowell and Luke Messer even terming it "old-fashioned."
What they meant was [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Speaking from behind the towering mugs of Spaten Lager at the Rathskeller on the Eve of Evan Bayh’s Elkhart Audition, Luke Messer posed this question: "What if Evan Bayh doesn’t get it? It could hurt Obama here in Indiana."
I could not dismiss this out of hand or mug.
Messer is a [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By RYAN NEES
FRENCH LICK - Democrats sounded an optimistic note about the party’s ability to turn the state blue this November during the annual retreat at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association convention this weekend in French Lick. The gathering was perhaps the last major event with which to take the pulse of the party before [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mitch Daniels did a slide show before Indianapolis Rotarians Tuesday at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. He talked of the "third consecutive balanced budget" and the six years of red ink between 1999 and 2005. Annual expenditure growth declined from 5.88 percent between 1988 and 2004 to 2.83 percent from [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
TRENDLINE I: We’re hearing that the Indianapolis Star is working on an expose revealing pensions for veterans of the part-time Indiana General Assembly. Our source says that Senate Republicans have been warned about the coming story. The source said that some long-time members have accrued pensions approaching a quarter million dollars. If that’s the case, [...]
Brian A. Howey @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Maureen Dowd, New York Times: Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy. Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and John Edwards have all been crazed [...]
