Brian Howey
‘Bidenomics’ And Its Indiana And U.S. Impacts
By BRIAN A. HOWEY In April 2022, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced $189 million for 154 Next Level broadband expansion projects, this coming atop a $100 million program in 2019. But…
Read MoreAfter A Half Century, An Amicable Divorce For IUPUI
By BRIAN A. HOWEY For the past half-century, the state’s two Big 10 universities shared the Indianapolis market with a Frankenstein approach that yielded “IUPUI.” Last month, Indiana and Purdue…
Read MoreEric Holcomb, Indiana’s Supermajority Governor
By BRIAN A. HOWEY More than a dozen years ago during the 2010 election cycle, Eric Holcomb was a key cog on Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Aiming Higher PAC built to…
Read MoreCan Mike Pence Win The Indiana Presidential Primary?
By BRIAN A. HOWEY In 1968, former vice president Richard Nixon pulled off what no other modern candidate for the White House had done, which was to win the presidency…
Read MoreDéjà Vu In The Heartland
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Since Donald Trump descended the escalator in 2015 to kick off this political era, I’ve sought a historic parallel, a similar personality who captured the hearts…
Read MoreRevisiting The Words Of JFK, Reagan (and Trump)
By BRIAN A. HOWEY When I was a young American – age five – we were guided by the words of a soon-to-be slain president. At his inauguration in 1961,…
Read MorePence Faces An Arduous Tight Rope To White House
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Throughout nearly two and a half centuries, more than a dozen Hoosier men have looked into a mirror and beheld a future president. Only two —…
Read MoreThe Man Who Built Lucas Oil Stadium
The mammoth NFL gridiron sprawling out across this city’s southern flank has long been called “the house that Peyton Manning built,” a tribute to the Hall of Fame Colts quarterback.…
Read MoreRepublican Turned Democrat McCormick Seeks To Defy History
By BRIAN A. HOWEY With Democrat Jennifer McCormick’s official entry into the 2024 Indiana gubernatorial race, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has ruled out seeking the Democratic nomination. “As for…
Read MoreDominant Indiana GOP Taking Aim At Big Cities
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Indiana Democrats will be facing an existential election this November. Already purged from rural areas and many small to medium-sized cities, holding no Statehouse constitutional offices,…
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