About Brian A. Howey

A third generation Hoosier journalist, Howey has deep roots to Northwest Indiana.

Howey has been writing his weekly political column since 1985 and has worked for the Warsaw Times-Union, Elkhart Truth, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and NUVO Newsweekly.

He began publishing Howey Politics Indiana in 1994 at www.howeypolitics.com. Howey resides in Indianapolis and Nashville.

BRIAN HOWEY: Buck stops squarely in Oval Office

By Brian Howey

Mr. President, the buck stops with you.

BRIAN HOWEY: Shrewd Doc Bowen on health insurance

By Brian Howey

Perhaps the most inspiring part of Otis Bowen’s legacy is that between 1946 and 1972 he delivered 3,000 Hoosier babies when he was the small t…

BRIAN HOWEY: Tax cuts amid 8.7% jobless rate

By Brian Howey

Other issues had potentially greater financial impact or will leave a more resolute imprint on people’s lives, such as Medicaid expansion and …

BRIAN HOWEY: 83 percent of Hoosiers support gun background checks

By Brian Howey

There’s always something in Howey Politics Indiana polling that raises at least one eyebrow, and sometimes both.

BRIAN HOWEY: Terror returns to American homeland

By Brian Howey

“Brian, we’re going to get hit again. It’s going to happen. I just hope when it happens, I’m not in Washington.”

BRIAN HOWEY: Use common sense with guns

By Brian Howey

For the life of me, I don’t see how expanded background checks for gun purchases is an assault on the 2nd Amendment. Yet that is the phrase we…

BRIAN HOWEY: Legislator turned governor focused on tax cut

By Brian Howey

The headline fixation in the fledgling administration of Gov. Mike Pence has been his 10 percent income tax cut. It is what Chief of Staff Bil…

BRIAN HOWEY: Political gun battle comes to Indiana

By Brian Howey

Four months after the horrific Newtown massacre and five months after Indiana witnessed a $51 million U.S. Senate race, the political TV ads h…

BRIAN HOWEY: Indiana, the methamphetamine state

By Brian Howey

Welcome to Indiana, the Methamphetamine State.

BRIAN HOWEY: Clowning around with Chocola, Mourdock

By Brian Howey

Chris Chocola is not a clown.

BRIAN HOWEY: Transvaginal ultrasound is transducer for masses

By Brian Howey

Amidst all the ribald humor, the yuks, and even “Pope LaMarr I” at the Gridiron Dinner the other night, something leaped off the gigantic vide…

BRIAN HOWEY: Medicaid ideology, elusive answers

By Brian Howey

After listening to Gov. Mike Pence and legislative leaders at the calendar halfway point of the Indiana General Assembly, one thing is clear: …

BRIAN HOWEY: Move up Indiana's primary election

By Brian Howey

In April 2008, Hillary Clinton made a campaign appearance at the Wigwam in Anderson. About two hours before she took the stage, a huge line of…

BRIAN HOWEY: Will Indiana turn its back on the working poor?

By Brian Howey

INDIANAPOLIS | How is Indiana going to ensure health insurance to the “working poor?”

BRIAN HOWEY: It's time to explore new maps for competitive Hoosier political districts

By Brian Howey

INDIANAPOLIS | The first actual election results of the new Indiana Congressional and legislative maps drawn in 2011 are in, and the results s…

BRIAN HOWEY: Pro life movement an Indiana political juggernaut

By Brian Howey

INDIANAPOLIS | In the past 40 years, there have been 55 million abortions in the United States. With Indiana at 2.1 percent of the U.S. popula…

BRIAN HOWEY: Obama, a warrior into the whirlwind

By Brian Howey

A little over a week before the New York Times’ Page 1 banner headline would proclaim - “Obama offers liberal vision: ‘We Must Act’" - an ackn…

BRIAN HOWEY: Inaugural challenges for Gov. Pence

By Brian Howey

All of the pomp, optimism, sunshine and prose was just exactly as it should have been as Gov. Mike Pence became the 12th Indiana congressman t…

BRIAN HOWEY: Pence comes to office with humility, open door

By Brian Howey

Just minutes after he sat down in my office on Wednesday to talk about his incoming administration, Gov.-elect Mike Pence hit on the very subj…

BRIAN HOWEY: Congressional ideology doesn’t put pork on grill

By Brian Howey

On New Year's Day, Indiana's four freshman members of the U.S. House voted against the so-called fiscal cliff deal. If the deal hadn't passed …

Correction: Mourdock's campaign objected

By Doug Ross

Brian Howey's column Sunday should have said that Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's campaign complained last year when Democrat S…

BRIAN HOWEY: Valuable state debates need some tweaking

Brian Howey

Hoosier voters are extremely fortunate. It may seem like a very minor point, but we have the Indiana Debate Commission, a group of journalists…

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