As your State Senator, providing relief for all property taxpayers has been my top priority. The job is not done, but over the past two years, we have made great progress. Guided by responsible budgeting and sound fiscal management, our actions delivered more than $500 million in property tax ...
There is an old story about the boy walking along on the beach picking up starfish, one by one, tossing them into the sea. He is questioned why he is doing this. What difference can one child make, tossing one starfish at a time, back into the ocean so that they might live? The answer, of ...
Calling the young man who shot a mass shooter at a mall in Indiana a “hero” has deadly consequences. It’s not that the young man didn’t act heroically. He did. He was also lucky. It’s that calling him a hero is dangerous. Giving massive publicity to a young shooter feeds our ...
Soon voters in New Hampshire will be asked to decide on candidates in primaries and in the November general election. Since the Republican Party has now embraced the extremism of the Free State wing of their party, they actually no longer have a real party platform. It is time for voters to be ...
Several months ago I watched Republican Senator Tom Cotton, a far right conservative and very vocal champion of populism, deliver as an update on the current state of the Republican Party; a political report card of sorts. As I listened to him I was struck by the tone of his remarks and his ...
Is Elisjsha Dicken a hero? It depends on whom you ask. The police chief in Greenwood, Ind., thinks he is, as does the mayor. Even the property management company that owns the Greenwood Park Mall where Dicken killed an active shooter called his actions “heroic,” although Dicken violated ...
