State Rep. David Wolkins isn't shy about what he likes: golf, basketball and football.
As ranking Republican member and former chairman of the Indiana House Environmental Affairs Committee, he's in a position to indulge his interests thanks to the very companies he's supposed to help regulate.
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Although this story focuses only on Indiana politics, it deserves our recognition. When some of the country's major publications -- Newsweek and the Washington Post, to name a couple -- are peddling their column inches to interest groups and others seem incapable of covering lobbying unless it involves scandal, the Star has investigated lobbying on the state-level, where these "small potatoes" issues can have a more immediate impact on people's lives. This is an editorial, but it contains sound reporting, and because it wasn't bound to objectivity it contains a greater insight than a news report could have offered. Highly recommended.
Left on the outside are residents of a state where unemployment is nearly 10 percent, personal bankruptcy and home foreclosure rates are among the nation’s highest, ... More »
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