Goodall was Muncie's first paid Black firefighter. He was a trailblazer who served as an Indiana lawmaker and helped develop the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus.
Brian Howey: Jarring contrasts between Congress, General Assembly Brian Howey
Last week I spent about an hour in the law office of State Rep. Greg Steuerwald, a Republican who wanted to talk about something unbelievable. It was HEA 1006, a sprawling police reform bill that passed and was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb without a single dissenting vote.
The next day, I met with U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz at a Carmel coffee shop, asking this freshman Republican what her first impressions of Congress were. I didn’t have very high expectations from Congress as most American people don’t, Spartz said. The reason I am saying that was I thought it was going to be like a high school. I was recently talking to a colleague and I said, “It’s more like middle school.”
Dr. Susan Moore did not set out to be a game changer. All she wanted was to be treated for a severe case of COVID-19 with the same dignity she gave her own patients.
But in a searing video that went viral last December, she charged Indiana University Health providers with allowing their racial bias to taint the treatment she received.
Six months after her eventual death from COVID-19, IU Health on Wednesday released the findings of an external investigation into a case that thrust the hospital into an unwelcome spotlight. The report concluded that while her medical care did not contribute to her untimely death, Moore suffered from a lack of cultural competence on the part of those treating her at IU Health North in Carmel.
Op-ed: Here s why more Indiana women running for office is good for all Hoosiers Rima Shahid
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With the campaigns of 2020 barely behind us, it might seem too soon to think about the next round of elections, but it’s not.
A handful of candidates and incumbents for everything from county sheriff to U.S. Congress already has announced plans to run in 2022, and you can be sure countless others are drafting announcements.
And that means it’s the perfect time to prepare more women to step into the political arena. After all, is a representative democracy truly representative if half the population can claim only about 20% to 30% representation?