From a reader comes this blurb from the Howey Report, concerning Saturday’s 9th District GOP Christmas Party:
HOSTETTLER, SODREL ATTEND 9TH CD RECEPTION: Former U.S. Reps. Mike Sodrel and John Hostettler attended the 9th CD Christmas party Saturday night in Scottsburg (Howey Politics Indiana). Hosettler announced last Thursday he would [...]
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By BRIAN A. HOWEY
ELKHART - I watched Sarah on Oprah the other day. Just before 1,100 turned out to see her Thursday in Fort Wayne and 1,200 in Noblesville where she greeted adoring Hoosiers as “hard core patriots.”
The ex-governor of Alaska didn’t come off as bad as I thought she [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
CARMEL - Gov. Mitch Daniels speech to Indiana Republicans Monday night has reignited speculation that he has his eyes on the White House, something the governor has consistently denied.
Friends of the governor have told HPI that while 2012 is still off the drawing board, they wouldn’t rule [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Listening to legislative leaders, Indiana Chamber and Fiscal Policy Institute prognosticators earlier this week, you’d think Hurricane Mitch was careening across the state’s bureaucracies, funds and the legislative chambers.
Hurricane Mitch was the 1998 category 5 storm that formed in the Caribbean Sea, dumped historic amounts [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - Battle lines on controversial issues are mostly predictable at the Statehouse. But with seismic education reforms poised for hearing during the 2010 Indiana General Assembly, Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson issued a cautionary warning that the game is changing.
Simpson told the Indiana Chamber’s Legislative Preview [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - If there’s a set of legislation that will get marquee billing next January through March, it’s House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer’s ethics package. It will likely get political billing as well when State Rep. Mike Murphy joined as co-author.
And that will [...]
TUG-OF-WAR OVER CAPS BEGINS: Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Mitch Daniels will push for a November 2010 referendum on the property tax caps. The Democrats were either evasive or downright hostile to the notion (Howey, Howey Politics Indiana). Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson told an Indiana [...]
Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Mitch Daniels will push for the property tax caps. The Democrats were either evasive or downright hostile to the notion (Brian A. Howey, Howey Politics Indiana). Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson told an Indiana Chamber of Commerce legislative preview conference, “If [...]
NEW HPI WEBSITE COMING TUESDAY: Howey Politics Indiana will be converting to a new website late today. This means that for the Tuesday HPI Daily Wire, you will be prompted for your user name - which in most cases will be your e-mail address. You will be sent a new [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - I’ve been writing about politics and public policy since 1985 and the current health care reform sequence is the most complicated issue of my career. So what I’m attempting to do with this column is to work through the many elements that have brought us [...]
NEW HPI WEBSITE COMING TUESDAY: Howey Politics Indiana will be converting to a new website late Monday at www.howeypolitics.com. This means that for the Tuesday HPI Daily Wire, you will be prompted for your user name - which in most cases will be your e-mail address.
