This isn't really a news item, but it's a funny story involving my wonderful grandmother and Mitch Daniels, so I just had to share. So, my grandma was talking to one of her neighbors the other day.  They went out for a walk and caught up on things.  When they got back to the neighbor's hou...

The story of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, took a tragic turn yesterday was she was found hanging in a shed on her mother's property in Florida.  Deborah said several times that she was not suicidal and that if she ended up dead, there needed to be an investigation.  While I never e...

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette takes note of the Guv's new television ad: Gov. Mitch Daniels has rolled out a new campaign commercial, and much of it borrows from his 2004 campaign, complete with images of the RV and trips......

The Guv has launched his first re-election ad. It talks about traveling the state, talking to Hoosiers and making change -- sometimes change that people don't like. The overarching message seems to be that he knows he pissed people off,......

The Guv must be worried that his record of fiscal predictions with respect to the Iraq war might come back to bite him in the butt this year. He sent his chief flacktoid to revise history in this story, which......

Local officials already are having to respond to the Guv's burden-shifting property tax plan. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports that Mayor Tom Henry is mulling ways to make up a massive budget shortfall caused by the "relief" plan: Saying......

The Guv's knee-jerk reaction to last year's property tax bills may not have solved all the woes in Marion County: A preliminary summary of a state-ordered reassessment in Marion County shows that values increased on about 85 percent of homes.......

TDW has refrained from bringing up the painful subject of IU basketball over the last few days, but if the Guv is going to weigh in, by golly, it's germane! Gov. Mitch Daniels encouraged campus officials to handle the case......

Another high-ranking official in the Guv's administration is calling it quits. From the press release: Governor Daniels has accepted the resignation of Cristy Wheeler as the executive director of the Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund (TRF).  Wheeler, who led the agency since 2005, is retu...

After reading this story, it's hard to understand why Department of Correction Commission J. David Donahue still has his job: "A St. Joseph County judge has stopped sending female offenders to the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility, claiming the state-run detention......