GUEST COMMENTARY: Don't think your vote counts? Think again!

A successful American government flows from an informed electorate. We are nearing the end of another historic campaign season. Historic not for any one single event, but historic because every vote we cast connects us to our past.

Secretary of State urges wariness on business 'crowd funding'

INDIANAPOLIS | Investors should be skeptical of offers to participate in "crowd funding" new businesses until federal rules take effect in 2013 and must then watch out for scams, Indiana's investment regulator warned Wednesday.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Criminal justice must remain nonpartisan

During the primary election season there was much discussion regarding whether bipartisanship is a positive or negative attribute as it relates to the work of the U.S. Congress.

Jesse White

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White admits to mistakes in helping to appoint Derrick Smith, a state lawmaker who now stands accused of bribery, but he says voters in 2014 should judge him on his performance in office.

EDITORIAL: New secretary of state, new start

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels wasted no time last week in naming the new secretary of state. The Indiana Supreme Court gave him the go-ahead on Thursday, and the following day he announced state Sen. Connie Lawson was his choice.

Governor names state Sen. Connie Lawson new secretary of state

INDIANAPOLIS | Gov. Mitch Daniels appointed state Sen. Connie Lawson, R-Danville, Indiana's new secretary of state at a Statehouse ceremony Friday.

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson

Justices rule Daniels should pick secretary of state

INDIANAPOLIS | Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels will select Indiana's next secretary of state after the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Democratic Party claim that Republican Charlie White was not eligible to run for office.

Indiana Supreme Court ruling in White v. Democratic Party

Governor ready to pick new secretary of state, if court lets him

INDIANAPOLIS | Gov. Mitch Daniels is ready to name Indiana's next secretary of state — if he's allowed to make the appointment.

Indiana Supreme Court to decide who picks new secretary of state

INDIANAPOLIS | Control of one of the state's most powerful offices hung in the balance Wednesday as the Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments over who should succeed ousted Secretary of State Charlie White.

EDITORIAL: Court should make Osili secretary of state

Now that Charlie White has been sentenced to home detention — irony of ironies — the focus is on the state's Supreme Court to decide who should be his permanent replacement.

DOUG ROSS: Anti-Lugar mudslinging is hitting home this time

It hasn't been easy to find an effective political weapon to use against Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., whose mission for decades has been to help neutralize weapons of mass destruction. But Lugar's opponents might have found a way to penetrate his armor.

DOUG ROSS: White proves Dems aren't sole source of disappointment

From a Northwest Indiana perspective, watching the Charlie White political implosion has been entertaining and informative.

EDITORIAL: White needs to resign from office

How ironic that Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White could accuse Evan and Susan Bayh of vote fraud, when White is accused of that very same crime.

Rokita endorses Romney for president

INDIANAPOLIS | U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Indianapolis, announced Friday he's supporting Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president.

Grant managers exempt from Ind. registration rule

The Indiana Securities Division has amended a policy that exempts grant managers of venture capital firms from registering with the state as investment advisers.

BRIAN HOWEY: White's credibility isn't intact

Our Secretary of Hack, Charlie White, emerged "triumphantly" from an Indiana Recount Commission last week which voted 3-0 to let him keep his job — at least for now.

DOUG ROSS: Panel's ruling isn't final answer on White's fate

When Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was running for office last year, I interviewed him by phone. But his campaign set it up on the condition that I not ask White any questions about the allegations of voting improprieties the Democrats had leveled against him. It was a bit like a …