It was his seventh and final mile, heading down South Walnut Street when a motorcyclist preparing to saddle up in a parking lot saw U.S. Rep. Baron Hill walk by. “Thanks for all you do,” Jason Evans-Groth called out from inside his helmet…

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? In our case the coop preceded them both!

Dan Coats came of age politically when he emerged from Dan Quayle’s shadow during the thrust of the Reagan Revolution. He is the only Hoosier not named “Lugar” or “Bayh” to hold a U.S. Senate seat since 1977. He is undefeated. He has been married only once…

In this week’s column, Two Farmers and a Fork feeds the birds.

It had been an intriguing 72 hours before Gov. Mitch Daniels took the stage at the Highland Park band shell here on a steamy Wednesday night. With a Newsweek reporter in tow, Daniels was on the stump for his first political priority: electing a Republican Indiana House…

Farmers, Indiana, and August all add up to one thing: sweet corn! Two Farmers and a Fork looks at one of the best things about living in a corn belt state.

I’ve traveled to more than 25 Indiana cities and towns this summer, from Angola to Rising Sun, from Michigan City to Peru and the one thing that is on everybody’s mind is jobs. Or as the 1992 Clinton campaign so succinctly summed it up, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

The tomatoes are coming! Two Farmers and a Fork briefly recaps planting and pests, and then gets to the good part, eating!

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This week Two Farmers and a Fork looks at a gardening and eating delight: growing and preserving herbs.

So, there are some Republicans on the fringe who are talking about taking on Sen. Dick Lugar in 2012. This would be akin to a Democrat challenging Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts back in the day. Or Robert Byrd in West Virginia…

Is it too wet or too dry? Two Farmers and a Fork takes a look at the water needs of your landscape.

The news out of Kokomo was the sign of the times. As Senate Republicans filibustered an extension of jobless benefits this past week, there were 300 new Chrysler job openings in the City of Firsts. And there were 3,000 applicants.

Two Farmers and a Fork visits the Columbia City Farmers Market and comes home with some locally grown goodness.

Think back a century. After Elwood Haynes had rolled his horseless carriage out into the dusty streets of Kokomo, American society was transformed. But it came with a cost…

Two Farmers and a Fork discuss landscape design: beyond the lawn.

Evan Bayh and family spent part of last August floating down the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon pondering his future. “No television, no cell phones,” Bayh told me. “It was great. Just a time to get away and think about life and the future. This had been on my mind for quite awhile. This had been on my mind since January – not this January but a year ago January.”

Welcome to our new column about gardening, landscaping, backyard farming, and eating and living well!

I’ve been writing this column since 1985 and I don’t recall ever talking about the treasurer of state race. The office is that of bureaucratic function and in my mind shouldn’t even be elected. It should be part of the governor’s appointed cabinet. But this year we have a fascinating race between the Republican incumbent Richard Mourdock and a 28-year-old Democrat from South Bend named Peter Buttigieg (pronunced Boota-judge).

When I called Brad Ellsworth on Tuesday he abruptly answered the phone and joked, “It was a whole lot simpler when I just picked up the phone at the sheriff’s office and it was 5 o’clock in the morning.”