MARK KIESLING: Don't like the Lake County GOP? Then jump ship!

There is much sound and fury about Lake County GOP Chairwoman Kim Krull allegedly "falsifying" information about certain Republican candidates.

Krull wins Voter Vault challenge

State Republican Party officials have refused a petition to remove Lake County GOP Chairwoman Kim Krull.

State board takes Voter Vault complaints under advisement

ST. JOHN TOWNSHIP | A three-member state Republican board heard nearly three hours of testimony related to the alleged misuse of the Lake County GOP database known as Voter Vault.

Welcome to Republican fight night: Power struggles make local unity elusive

CROWN POINT | Prospects appear bright for Lake County Republicans this spring. And political infighting in a once-moribund local party shows many active hopefuls are trying to garner power and influence for the first time in decades.

State GOP to investigate Lake Voter Vault complaints

CROWN POINT | The state Republican organization is investigating whether someone within the Lake County GOP leadership mislabeled two Republican candidates as Democrats.

Republican candidates claim they're victims of Voter Vault heist

CROWN POINT | Two Lake County Republican candidates claim someone has broken into an influential GOP database and stolen their political identities.

Hero blasts Lake GOP boss again

CROWN POINT | A dissident Republican continues to press his attack on his party's local leadership.

GOP convention delegate allocations disputed

CROWN POINT | A disaffected Republican said Hammond, Highland, Munster, St. John and Schererville are being denied fair representation to the nomination of state party candidates.

MARK KIESLING: Dems take care of business in Hammond, not in Munster

Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott Jr.'s decisive victory might signal the death knell for the city's once-powerful opposition.

McDermott clinches third term in Hammond mayoral race

HAMMOND | Incumbent Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. threw a knockout punch in Tuesday's election against Republican challenger George Janiec, earning an unofficial 80 percentage points.

George T. Janiec

ENDORSEMENT: Hammond voters should re-elect McDermott

In Thomas McDermott Jr., Hammond residents have a mayor who often shoots from the lip. He can be abrasive. But he also has brought some remarkable improvements to Hammond.

Mayoral race replay of '07

HAMMOND | The Hammond mayoral election will be a rematch of 2007, with incumbent Democrat Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., facing opposition again from Republican challenger George Janiec.

Janiec is a proven fighter on property tax issues

According to the Indiana State Board of Accounts, Hammond is now $160 million in debt. Thirteen years and $500 million from the Horseshoe Casino, including a $14 million advance for the new clubhouse at Lost Marsh, and we're broke.

Van Til a no-show at Highland conservancy district meeting

HIGHLAND | Lake County Surveyor George Van Til did not attend a widely publicized conservancy district meeting Thursday night even though the Team Hammond Taxpayers Group claimed he would attend.

Janiec opposes conservancy district

HAMMOND | Republican Mayoral candidate George Janiec sees a marriage between competing plans to fund Little Calumet River upkeep as the only way to ensure the river is maintained.

Republican candidates not united behind Janiec

HAMMOND | More than 70 percent of Republican voters in the May 3 mayoral primary voted for candidates other than victor George Janiec, and his three closest competitors aren't yet supporting his candidacy in November.

MARK KIESLING: Lake GOP leader needs a thicker skin

For someone who leads the third-largest Republican county organization in Indiana, Kim Krull appears to have some pretty thin skin.

DOUG ROSS: What would Obama say about Northwest Indiana?

When President Barack Obama visited Indianapolis on May 6, state Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, said she wants the president to visit Gary. After Thursday's speech on the Middle East, I started wondering what he would say about Northwest Indiana.

Parents protest alleged discrimination

HAMMOND | Beating on a Lakota drum and chanting an ancient Aztec sacred prayer to rid the demon of racism that allegedly inhabits the halls of Clark Middle/High School, an Illinois minister led more than 300 Latinos into Monday night's Hammond School Board meeting.