Aug 20, 2025

I started writing my column in the spring of 2014, and oh how things have changed since then!

Barack Obama was president, and Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana. There were already Republican supermajorities in both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly, and those legislative maps have since been updated and...

Aug 13, 2025

It was a lovely September morning in Indianapolis in 2018. We had been living in our new townhouse downtown for about a year, relocating from a house just two blocks up the street. I was still a consultant back then and this was still my offseason. So, I had casually risen and slow-walked my way through my...

Aug 6, 2025

To me, “1984” was originally a rock album, the last studio collection of songs by the original members of Van Halen. It was July 7, 1984, when the 16-year-old version of me earned his way to a spot right in front of Eddie Van Halen’s place on the stage at Roberts Stadium in Evansville for the biggest tour of the...

Jul 30, 2025

On Monday night, I sat in my recliner writing my third novel. I’m about halfway done with it, and my editor is expecting that first half by the end of the week so she can do a midpoint “assessment” of the story. She worked on my last book, and I know how she operates. The first question she will contemplate...

Jul 23, 2025

Last week, GOP U.S. Rep. Maria Salazar of Florida, filed “The Dignity Act of 2025,” a bipartisan immigration reform package that would provide legal status for certain undocumented immigrants. She filed similar legislation in 2023, but the political climate has changed wildly since way back then. Unsurprisingly,...