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by  Andrew Dezelan The legislature wrote the test for township mergers. Nobody wrote the study guide. Indiana spent twenty years arguing about whether townships should …

by Denny Smith Margaret Thatcher supposedly observed that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Whether she said …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. This week Indianapolis got its turn. ICE agents took three men out of a beauty salon in Lawrence. Two restaurants in …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. Two homemade infographics about the Secretary of State race have been circulating this week, and I have spent more time with …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. Full disclosure, which is rather the point of a disclosure: Greg Ballard and I have known each other for 20 years. …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. Everyone arguing about the Indianapolis wheel tax — for it, against it, veto-curious — has been repeating the same claim: state …

By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. There’s an old joke in journalism: if both sides are mad at you, you’re probably doing your job. Good thing there’s …

You see, just when you thought the national political discourse couldn’t sink any lower—or darker—we pause our usual programming of curfews, city violence, and political …

by Nate LaMar In March, I made a business trip to Vietnam. This was my second visit, with the first having been in 2000. Vietnam …

by Brandon Renner Big things are happening in Indiana. With major data centers and billions in tech investment coming our way, we’re positioning ourselves as …