Mitch Daniels News

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Loretta Rush had high praise for the Clark Legal Self Help Center as she delivered the keynote address at its annual Patron and Supporter Luncheon on Wednesday.

That nagging feeling that your paycheck doesn't stretch as far as it once did is true.

A look between the lines and the campus politics of faculty calling out the Purdue president over Common Reading program.

Former Governor and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels has been tapped for the board of directors of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Mitch Daniels spurned calls to run for the White House in 2012, but the Purdue University president will have a hand in the 2016 race.

Purdue University professor Kevin McNamara, left, interviews Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner," on Aug. 22, 2010, in Elliott Hall of Music.

Former University President Shirley Tilghman, University trustee Charlie Gibson '65 and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels '71 were recently elected directors to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

President Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands at 2012 their foreign policy debate at Lynn University in Florida.

Republican donors and operatives are chattering about Bush's publicity-shy wife, so worried she isn't on board with a 2016 White House run that they're urging people in the family's orbit to make the case.

The Indiana Finance Authority and Indiana Department of Transportation said the agencies finalized the agreement Monday with private contractor I-69 Development Partners to upgrade a 21-mile stretch of the existing Indiana 37. Private bonds to finance the project are set to be sold in June and construction is scheduled to start this year, the ... (more)

Read it and weep. A new study by the Tax Foundation finds that Hoosier taxpayers have the 22nd highest tax burden in the country.

A national study found that Indiana residents have paid an increasing percentage of their income on state and local taxes at the same time their average income was shrinking.

Question: Do you believe Gov. Mike Pence should make a run for president, as some have said he's considering? If he does, what do you think his chances of winning are? * Gov. Pence needs to show that he can run the state before he takes on the presidency.

In 2006, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels proposed the Indiana Commerce Connector, an interstate-style highway that would form an outer loop around Indianapolis and cut through the heart of Johnson County.

Indiana is the first state to part with the national Common Core standards of education in favor of developing and implementing its own academic standards to better prepare students for college and the workforce.

The first face-to-face meeting of the general election campaign featured Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn likened his opponent to a "virus" who attacks union rights and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner countering that the governor repeatedly had misled teachers, taxpayers and schoolchildren.

To this point, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has been on the periphery of talk about the 2016 presidential race.

There was some strange news out of Indiana recently. A piece of legislation designed to dismantle the state's energy efficiency law made its way to the desk of Gov. Mike Pence.

It wasn't the most solid week in the movement to swap out the school standards known as Common Core for a homegrown set of measures in Indiana.

Back when Mitch Daniels was Indiana governor, he was known for coming up with some unique ideals for governing Indiana.