I hope that health care reform is passed. I am a single mother of two. I have lost my job due to my supervisors blatantly lying to get me fired. We are on Medicaid at present.

You're a 40-year-old woman with no family history or other special risk factors for breast cancer. Should you schedule the first of your yearly breast exams or not? Good luck with that.

Sometimes it seems we humans have a naturally competitive nature, and we can't help but wonder what the best way is to win.

I find I must agree with Sheriff Ken Fries concerning the consolidation of the 911 center. It must not occur in its present proposed form.

The bad news for conservatives is that Senate Republicans don't have the numbers to block the Obama administration's judicial nominees.

Reading lately has been varied and interesting. Let me tell you about it. Each book was given or loaned to me, some by persons whom I interviewed for the Page Turner column that appears in the features section on Saturdays.

Two recent letters accused Glenn Beck of promoting hate speech and fear. I question that either writer ever listens to Beck or to his news-opinion show on Fox. They probably heard it from a secondhand source. I've never heard hate speech from him.

Indiana legislators have talked about lobbying reform seemingly forever. But every year that specific proposals come up, they go mostly nowhere because lawmakers seem offended by the whole effort.

State Superintendent of public instruction Tony Bennett has created an uproar among educators with his latest proposal to limit the number of method education courses elementary education majors are required to complete.

Paul Helmke and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have no shame. In the midst of the tragedy at Fort Hood, Helmke decided to use the killing and wounding of U.S. soldiers as an excuse to criticize North Carolina Sen.

In today's world, one institution after another succumbs to the temptation of becoming more “relevant” and thus appealing to a broader audience. In the process, many of the faithful wonder if the institutions have lost their reason for being.

Unless we invite God back into our hearts and honor the Constitution, America will never again be a land of prosperity and freedom. It is no coincidence that our country has struggled so much lately. It is you and I who have let this happen.

The 2010 Indiana General Assembly will consider language amending the state constitution's section on assessment and taxation.

When Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita came out a couple of months ago with his proposal to end gerrymandering, his chief critics weren't Democrats but some of his fellow Republicans.

“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest.”