Politics

Finally, a Mike Pence meme.

RFRA has sparked widespread outrage.

On Saturday Indianapolis protestors (“thousands,” according to some estimates) marched from Monument Circle to the Statehouse. Photographer Darryl Smith was on hand to capture the rally.

A lauded performer soon to appear in Indy took direct aim at the state’s CEO.

You can’t not have an opinion about Indiana Senate Bill 101.

Indiana became the first state to enact an energy-savings plan and then slash it.

“It seems like every other day, there’s an incident,” says Vernell Miller. “Shootings happen so frequently that folks in the community develop an apathy. That’s alarming to me.”

“We take security very seriously,” says Jay Ricker of Anderson-based Ricker Oil Co.

Criminals “try to prey on people they think are weak,” says Just Pizza owner Joey Davis, who claims he once had a gun pressed into his stomach on a delivery before he escaped on foot, uninjured.

“The rhetoric of the NRA has created an extremist group terrified their guns are going to be taken away.”

“Yes, I’ve carried a gun into the Statehouse in the past. Why? Because I can. It’s America.”

From homicides to suicides, self-defense to police shootings, firearms claimed close to 200 lives in Marion County last year.

Indianapolis does not have a gun problem or a homicide problem or a crime problem or a socioeconomic problem or a drug problem. It has an all-of-the-above problem.

Where some of our more noteworthy state and local regulations fall on the pro-control–to–pro-gun spectrum

It might not generate the same headlines as some other policy issues, but this understated 2015 legislative item is hardly the least important.