"Here's a tale of two states that should make Hoosiers glad they live on the east bank of the Wabash..."

"-- at least when it comes to paying for state government." Last week in Indiana, the Daniels administration announced that the st...

At the Bead Shop Café...

... you can string words into sentences. (The photograph is from West Lafayette, Indiana — in part of a grand old place called Von's, wh...

A farm in Perrysville, Indiana.

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Brick and stone.

Seen today, in West Lafayette, Indiana: This detail shows the charming placement of 2 stones to make a chevron:

"Illinois is a lesson in why companies are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of governments."

"Indiana's debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois's ...

The Marion County Election Board finds Sen. Richard Lugar ineligible to vote in his erstwhile home distict.

The vote was 2-1, with the two Democrats on the board deciding that Lugar, a Republican, has abandoned his residence to go live in Washingto...

Why did Mitch Daniels in Indiana get away with doing something more drastic than what Scott Walker did that set off the huge protests in Wisconsin?

Leon Fink (in Salon) wonders: In Wisconsin, the union presence seemed wedded to a deep sense of civic identity, including connection to a lo...

The Boilermakers came to town.

This was their big moment: See Boilermaker Pete there? And the small contingent of black-clad fans from Indiana? But we won. Yay! It was 62-...

The Obama administration will challenge Indiana's attempt to defund on abortion.

Reports the NYT under the headline "U.S. Objects to New Law on Clinics in Indiana": If a state Medicaid program is not in complian...

"Women don’t make this up! My Goodness!"

"This is the state of Indiana!"

Downtown Indianapolis.

Architectural details, photographed last Saturday.

The war monument.

This is the "War" side of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis. This closeup shows one soldier using...

"Moto Fever: Dig It."

No, you dig it . We're rolling out.

"Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. It's hard to get by just upon a smile..."

Cat Stevens sang that: And we were talking about smiling. Do you use that tremendously effective device, the smile? It's hard to get by ...

Republicans "have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W."

Writes Maureen Dowd. Dan Quayle was a Senator from Indiana . I guess that looks like "the West" when you're looking from New ...

"I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis..."

"... which is what I am. What alternatives do I have? The one most vehemently recommended by teachers has no doubt been pressed on you,...

Is it going to be boring tonight?

Mark Halperin tells you what they're going to tell you: 1. “She did what she had to do.” 2. “She didn’t do what she had to do.” 3. “John...

Here's the post about the Pennsylvania primary.

1. Turnout is very high , unsurprisingly. Isn't this fun? 2. There's a lot of jockeying over a number : The percentage points by whi...

"He has the unique skills to try to lower the temperature and foster a sense of common ground."

So says Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. , the antiabortion Democrat from Pennsylvania, about Barack Obama, who has never voted for a restriction...

"So Indiana may end up being the tiebreaker."

Barack Obama admits he's in a tie ? No, he's just talking about winning 2 of the 3 states with primaries coming up. The 2 he thinks ...