It is very rare that I  follow sports, much less write about sports figures.  But every once in a while, something pops up that I can’t help but scribble down a few thoughts.   And leave it to former NBA star Charles Barkley to make that possible. During an interview with a radio station in Philadelphia, […]

When did “work” turn into a four-letter word? Did I miss something? I thought working, so you could be independent and not have to rely on others, was a good thing; apparently not according my colleague Erika Smith at the Indy Star. Smith penned a column about changes that are coming to Indiana’s food stamp […]

I think I’ve found a possible answer to some of Indiana’s local government money problems, video gaming machines. Allow me to explain.  You see, I was in my home state of Illinois this past weekend taking care of the usual legal business, and while there I spent some time Friday night in one of my […]

Now that a federal judge has ruled Marion’s County system of selecting judges is unconstitutional, it’s time to come up with a new system to pick the individuals who impartially dispense justice. For those of you who aren’t aware, under the old system Democrats and Republicans got to pick the number of judges based on […]

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has caught a lot of grief over the last few months for  defending Indiana’s marriage statute.   Because he defended the statute which defined marriage as one man and one woman, some people think his motivation was that he was opposed to same-sex marriage. In all the time I written about […]

I have been called a lot of not so pleasant names in my 40-something years of living on this planet, and most of them were true.   However, whenever I get called a “liberal” I have to take a little bit of an issue. In the wake of recent legal decisions, my position on same-sex marriage […]

When I go down the list of things that I worry about, the Ebola virus is not one of them. As you may be aware the Center for Disease Control announced Monday the first diagnosed case of Ebola here in the United States.   According to media reports, the unidentified man left Liberia on September 19 […]