Poll finds most Hoosiers support Senate immigration plan

INDIANAPOLIS | Nearly 7 out of 10 Hoosiers support the immigration reform legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate, according to a new poll released Thursday.

BRIAN HOWEY: Turn Obamacare hysteria into ‘tweak and adapt’

When times change, Americans adapt.

Clay remembered as a political warrior

Tributes to the late Rudolph "Rudy" Clay poured in Tuesday at the announcement of his death at age 77.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Misguided Medicare reforms will hit union workers

Right from the start, the Medicare Part D program was a phenomenal success. Providing prescription drug coverage for 850,000 seniors in Indiana alone, the health security afforded by Part D benefits union and nonunion members alike.

BRIAN HOWEY: Republicans in time warp on Obamacare

If you’re a Democrat, you’re looking over your shoulder heading into the 2014 Affordable Care Act installation (and mid-term elections) and pointing out that people with pre-existing conditions will be covered, there no longer will be annual limits for coverage received, and that college kid…

PHIL WIELAND: Man wants to be Census Bureau's anonymous source

Most of us don't mind helping the government. Maybe it's because the government always seems to need a lot of help.

Ind. senator backs plan for Gulf War memorial

INDIANAPOLIS | Veterans of the first Persian Gulf war would be honored with a national memorial in Washington, D.C., under a plan announced Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind.

Donnelly should have kept word on gay marriage

This is in response to the complete turnaround of Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. When he was campaigning for our votes he said he would not support same sex marriage. According to the April 6 article, he states he will now support same-sex marriage.

BRIAN HOWEY: Use common sense with guns

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 hear over and over from the Indiana congressional delegation.

BRIAN HOWEY: Political gun battle comes to Indiana

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

Donnelly talks jobs, training at round table event

GARY | With a strengthening economy and the anticipation of jobs becoming available as workers retire, Northwest Indiana needs to arm people with the skills necessary for today's jobs.

BRIAN HOWEY: Clowning around with Chocola, Mourdock

Chris Chocola is not a clown.

Conservative group to demand lawmakers approve Pence income tax cut

INDIANAPOLIS | A debate between leaders of the Republican-controlled General Assembly and Republican Gov. Mike Pence over whether Indiana can afford Pence's campaign promise to reduce the state's income tax rate by 10 percent is about to go public in a big way.

State drops plan to halt unemployment payments

INDIANAPOLIS | State officials have canceled a plan to suspend unemployment payments for more than 32,000 out-of-work Hoosiers that was prompted by automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester.

State, local officials honor Obama inauguration

WASHINGTON D.C. | Just days after being sworn in as Indiana's governor, Mike Pence joined other state officials Sunday to honor President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Donnelly vists farmers, ag representatives during tour

MORGAN TOWNSHIP | U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly greeted local farmers and representatives of the agriculture industry Thursday morning at the Birky farm.

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

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 subject I had been thinking about.

McDermott wants to re-up as Dem chairman

CROWN POINT | Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said Friday he will ask the Democratic Party faithful to re-elect him as their chairman.

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

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 — and it did by a 257 to 167 margin — most middle class families would have seen their taxes go up somewhere in the $2,000- to $3,000-a-year range.