This November, Hoosier voters will see something new on their ballots. For the first time, school board candidates may appear with a party affiliation beside their names.  The Indiana State Teachers Association opposed this change. We believed then, and still believe now, that decisions about local schools should be centered on students, educators and communities […]

Throughout my career in journalism, as an editorial writer and now as a columnist, I never seriously considered belonging to a political party. As an opinion writer, those political parties were subjects and sometimes targets but never any place I wanted to call home. My voter registration as an independent was something I wore like […]