Gary Snyder raises questions about data centers and electric bills, and real estate attorney Tyler Ochs delivers the reassuring news: those massive power-hungry facilities are actually required to foot the bill for their own upgrades. So your mortgage is safe — for now, anyway.

The news about newsrooms has not been good. Cutbacks and closures, layoffs and less reporting seem to have dominated the headlines, but a recent study of the media ecosystem in Indiana is making some news consumers hopeful that community journalism is growing.
Call me Diego. Some years ago — never mind how many election cycles precisely, nor how many sternly worded press releases and triumphant declarations of civic salvation have since been loosed upon the waters — there set forth from the port of Indianapolis a most singular mariner, one Diego Morales, bent upon a quest as noble in its self-conception as it was diminutive in its arithmetic.
Top White House officials took time to repeatedly contact a politically unknown Indiana Republican in attempts at persuading her to quit her state Senate campaign in favor of a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has weighed into the endorsement wars in an Indiana state Senate race, putting himself once again at odds with his former boss, President Donald Trump.
A former postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University is being deported after pleading guilty to smuggling biologic materials into the United States from China. Youhuang Xiang, 32, of China, was sentenced Friday, April 10 to over four months in prison followed by one year of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to smuggling E. coli DNA into the country.
It used to be that Indiana state Sen. Greg Walker was the one poaching big game inside the GOP. In 2006, he bagged the biggest “RINO” possible, taking out the long-serving state Senate leader, Bob Garton. Walker toured the state Senate district centered on Columbus, Indiana, in a refurbished orange 1970 Slant-6 Plymouth Valiant, encouraging supporters to scrawl in permanent marker on the campaign sedan.
U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman on Friday said he supports the suspension of Indiana's gas tax, but the federal government's finances don't allow it to do the same.
As regular readers of this blog know, I am a great admirer of economist Paul Krugman, who recently had a conversation with someone else I’ve admired, although not quoted: Lina Khan.
The Consumer Price Index jumped 3.3 percent in the year through March, a two-year high, reflecting higher costs for energy and goods affected by disruptions in the Middle East.
As often happens during military conflicts, the issue of the draft — which was phased out more than 50 years ago — has resurfaced in the public sphere, and online, since the attacks on Iran were launched. And in this case, some antiwar critics have found a target for their ire and fears: Barron Trump, the president’s 20-year-old son.
Over 2 million fewer people are receiving federal food assistance since Republicans in Congress cut benefits last year. Nationwide enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stood at 42 million in July, when President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. As of December, enrollment had fallen to 39.5 million, according to data released last month.

Consumer confidence plunged to a record low in April as fears mounted over rising energy prices and the broader impact of the Iran war, according to a University of Michigan survey Friday.
Catholics didn’t take long to conclude that Pope Leo XIV would be an unassuming leader. In contrast with the voluble Pope Francis, who clearly delighted in provoking controversy with off-the-cuff statements, Leo tended to speak in qualifiers—it seems; I suppose; at the moment—when he spoke at all. Nearly a year into his pontificate, he’s given just one extended on-the-record interview.
President Donald Trump was peppered with questions about the Iran War as he departed Washington, DC on his way to a fundraiser at his winery.
Donald Trump has threatened to unleash fury on Iran using "the best weapons ever made" if peace talks in Pakistan fail this weekend. "We're loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made," the US president said. "If we don't have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively."
President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments.
A top House Republican’s attempt to revive questions about Jan. 6 security failures triggered a fiery backlash from Democrats, who called the effort “embarrassing” and accused the GOP of rewriting history.

Airports are bracing for mass shortages of jet fuel if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen within the next three weeks, according to a trade body.
Accusations of rape and other misconduct against Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has thrown California’s already chaotic California gubernatorial race into unknown territory, with influential politicians calling on Swalwell to drop out ASAP.
The Bulwark's William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift identified that it was what the first lady did not say — and who she did not name — that was most revealing. The move effectively threw her husband, President Donald Trump, under the bus.
Obi Toppin had 26 points and nine rebounds and seven Indiana players scored in double figures as the Pacers snapped a three-game skid with a 123-94 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
Ayo Dosunmu scored 24 points and Julius Randle and Bones Hyland each added 19 as the Minnesota Timberwolves picked up a critical 124-104 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.
It’s mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women's basketball national championship in school history — a goal that was set after losing in the first Final Four last season. Jaquez scored 21 points, Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday in the title game.































