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“The reality is there are a lot of committed racists whose vote I’m never going to get and that’s alright.”

“The New Deal era ended with Reagan. The Reagan era ends with us.”

What’s happening—and what’s next—at the intersection of Indiana politics and business?

“We are in a little bit of a hole. But we’re climbing out of it.”

Slashing taxes sounds like a great idea. Until it isn’t.

Ope, free space!

Is the Dunes’ promotion a one-time victory for conservation in Indiana, or the start of a new era of environmental activism in the state?

It could be a Hoosier battle royale, one that pits the gay Episcopalian war-veteran mayor against the evangelical former governor.

The thrill of motorcycling is the point, the counter-narrative to the bubble-wrapped life of modern America.

How a Zionsville doctor secretly used his own sperm to impregnate more than 50 fertility patients.

“He couldn’t hide the fact that he was the smartest person in the room. He was the opposite of ‘folksy,’ which was fine in my estimation—I have always felt ‘folksy’ was often phony, and that was a charge that could never be made against Dick Lugar.”

Buyouts and layoffs at The Indianapolis Star beg questions about what the city would look like without it.

“If a man or woman, at the end of their long and difficult day, wants to smoke a joint and relax, that does not impinge upon my happiness in the least.”

Birch Bayh was born in Terre Haute in 1928, just before the start of the Great Depression. From the beginning, his life was marked by a mix of national and local, agriculture and ambition.

“Dick knows his stuff. He shows up with what we need and is excited for our success.”