Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson says some students should spend five years in high school as a way to reduce Indiana’s drop out rate.  Excuse me?!  She says some students can’t finish school in four years and need more time to graduate. No offense JLT, but what you are proposing here is called “lowering […]

The GOP may have finally started to turn a corner last night at the Republican National Convention.  Joe Lieberman’s appeal to independent voters may just be what the Republicans need to stay competitive. Lieberman’s speech came on the heels of some badly needed good news.  Hurricane Gustav did not New Orleans,  oil is hovering back […]

A little piece of advice for the Mayor of Richmond, don’t use government stationary to promote a political event. On August 26, Mayor Sally L. Hutton put out a news release saying the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson was coming to town to talk with Master Brand Employees, 275 of which are losing their […]

A friend of mine who is a single mom and I were chatting last night about the Palin family pregnancy situation.   She shared with me the ten life lessons she wanted her daughter to know.  She gave them to her daughter at 16.   She is now a senior in college.  I asked if I could […]

Now that we all know that Vice-Presidential pick Sarah Palin’s daughter got pregnant by her  hockey player boyfriend we can take a step back and have an adult conversation. Now for those of you who think this is a private matter and nobody’s business, I think you’re right, to a point.  Where I disagree is […]

After a few days of pondering the nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for vice-president, that is my conclusion. She brings some big pluses to John McCain’s campaign, but she also brings some baggage as well. As a woman, she continues to add to the history making moments of this campaign, but I also don’t […]

John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.  She brings a number of pluses to the table.  She has a reputation for being a reformer in Alaska politics.  Alaska is the part of the debate on energy. She would be the first female to run for Vice-President on the Republican […]

Give it to the Democrats.  They got their act together.  They went into a convention with questions and issues about unity, broadening their appeal, the possibility of a floor fight and whether their nominee could hit one out of the park.  Give them credit, they pulled it off. While the GOP is still struggling to get […]

I’m sitting down watching Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination for the Presidency of the United States.   I don’t necessarily agree with all his positions, but I am taken back by the history of the moment.  If you can’t appreciate the history in the making, it’s probably because you have never had a reason to.

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita says there are 500,000 new and updated voter registrations in Indiana.   Rokita says that brings the number of voters in the state to 4.4 million and there are still six weeks to go before voter registration ends.  More than 200,000 of those registrations are new voters.  In 2004, Indiana […]