Indiana Politics Information Directory

Featuring multiple authors reviewing political events and politicians and issues in Indiana's Porter County and all of Northwest Indiana. On the Chicago Southshore in the "Region" of Northwest Indiana. Good government a key focus. ...

I just spoke with Tamyra D'Ippolito, the candidate who was already running in the US Senate primary as a Democrat in Indiana before Evan Bayh ended his re-election bid today. D'Ippolito's potential presence on the primary ballot ...

In the race for the seat being vacated by Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, former Republican Rep. John Hostettler looks for now to be a stronger.

D'Ippolito told me she is the first woman to ever run for the US Senate in Indiana. Her impression from working on prior campaigns and from this one is that Indiana political culture is a "tight old boys school, it borders on sexism. ...

An early land-based casino proposal might have actually reduced gaming in Indiana. It let Majestic Star's Don Barden off the hook for a $50 million land-based gaming fee if he gave up one of the two licenses he owns in Gary. ...

... they have managed to pass much needed lobbying reforms, but they’ve come up short on a measure to take the politics out of the redistricting process and on a measure to deal with the number of Indiana third-graders who move on to fourth grade ...

WASHINGTON – Shock waves over Evan Bayh’s retirement from the U.S. Senate still are felt along the 600 miles between the nation’s capital and Indiana. Blaming the Washington Beltway’s toxic politics, Bayh declared: "I love working for the ...

Our politics has gotten so impossible lately, too many Americans have stopped dreaming. Not these two. They just never got the word. As Sridhar says: ``We came to America for the American dream - to do good and to make good.''

Farmers and small meatpackers in Indiana say they are worried the state's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money could hurt one of the state's few growing industries. Their fears highlight a dilemma lawmakers in many states face as they ...

Doug Mills/The New York Times Senator Evan Bayh in his office in Washington in 2006. Update | 2:38 p.m. Senator Evan Bayh , the Indiana Democrat, said today that he would not seek a third term in Congress, a move that gives Republicans yet another ...

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh’s decision to retire from the U.S. Senate complicates his party’s efforts to retain control of the chamber at a time when public disapproval of Congress is at its highest level in 18 years. Bayh ...

A news report by Howey Politics Indiana ( www.howeypolitics.com ) quotes House Minority Leader Brian Bosma as saying he will pursue the issue into 2011, and State Sen. Sue Landske, D-Cedar Lake, says redistricting reform will be kept alive before and ...

mind you, i did Create it with a credit card, so maybe that only checks once..) I grew up in a small town in Indiana, this is just one of an endless set of examples of how politics work in Indiana. Think of every single bad stereotype of small town ...

Facebook group tell it, this is a story about "insider ... Tenderloin" and 99-cent root beer floats, Canada hopes to attract a dozen Mellencamp supporters, whom he'll ask to sign a petition to be submitted to Indiana newspaper editors.

In clearing U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky and other House members of pay-to-play charges last week, the House Ethics Committee did nothing to vindicate Washington's money-soaked politics. If the long list of financial successes enjoyed by donors to the ...