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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. Allow me if you will to play my Gen X card for a moment. In 1983, a kid named David Lightman …

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 …

By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Indianapolis is gearing up for a public hearing Monday night over a proposed Google data center in Franklin Township. Cue the hand-wringing: …

By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Whitley County Consolidated Schools just taught us all how not to handle a crisis involving parental rights, student safety, and constitutional law. …