The issue: Reinventing Indiana government
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Our opinion: The recommendations warrant sensible scrutiny with the goal of making government more accountable to and more streamlined for the residents of Indiana.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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The justicesâ questioning on indicated a majority does not accept the basic argument brought by challengers to Indianaâs voter-identification law.
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The Indiana president is under pressure and is certainly within his rights to dismiss Kelvin Sampson. But there are a number of Indiana supporters who would like to see Sampson remain as coach.
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An Illinois controversy pitting two important constituencies against each other put Barack Obamaâs legislative skills to the test.
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By Scott Leith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb.
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The Budget Office and the case of the disappearing public interest
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 5--It's human nature to play for time when big issues need to be resolved. But big issues -- like eminent domain reform -- are what state lawmakers were elected to confront.
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By Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  The Legislature is meddling more and more in local government -- but who's asking for it?  Lawmakers have pushed dozens of bills this session that change the way cities and counties operate.
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The Buckeyes were able to get things back on the right track against Indiana. Ex-OSU captain Jerry Rudzinski takes a look at what the Buckeyes were able to get right against the Hoosiers.
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By Kathleen Quilligan, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Jun. 13--About 30 people gathered with members of the city's staff Tuesday morning at the Allen County Public Library downtown to brainstorm what to do with the 29 acres of property the city has optioned north of the St.
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By Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 13--Good ideas occasionally do find their way into the Code of  Virginia. State Senator Ryan McDougle of Hanover and Attorney General Bob  McDonnell have proposed one such example for the upcoming General Assembly  session.
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Senator Barack Obama of Illinois offered himself as the face of a new generation that would bring change to a government hobbled by cynicism, petty corruption and âa smallness of our politics.â
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Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson outlines his plan for a new stadium for the Colts on Monday that includes asking state lawmakers to legalize slot machine-like devices to help in financing.
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Ohio's recent EVEREST (Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing) report on e-voting in that state was well-named, touching on as it did a mountain of potential problems with the process. In a recent question-and-answer session, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner explains what the report found and how the state is proceeding.
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Advocates for open government are creating search engines and websites to let citizens peek into the inner workings of official agencies. Now more than ever, they say, openness is essential to self-government. By Ryan Singel.
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How one state is re-engineering its schools for the new century