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  • The Outstater

    An Endorsement — of Sorts I don’t know a lot about leadership but I know something about fly-fishing. The connection will be explained in a moment, and it relates to Indiana’s Secretary of State campaign. An iconic photograph of Gen. Dwight…

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  • A Taboo on Mugshots

    Let us give corporate media the benefit of the doubt. There may be a valid reason not to broadcast or publish some police mugshots. So it is important that you read this week’s Capital Chronicle essay on the issue. Before you do, know that the…

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  • Keating: The FED’s Vision of Monetary Policy

    by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. In offering forward guidance, U.S. Federal Reserve (FED) officials had hoped to assure households and businesses that borrowing costs would remain stable in the near future. Meanwhile, the global economy was affected by supply shocks making…

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  • Those Bayh Campaign Ads

    An entertaining aspect of a top-of-the ballot campaign in Indiana is the arrival of East Coast political consultants trying to read the Hoosier mind. You can watch it now in real time on the Beau Bayh commercials. They inflate teen-age traffic tickets…

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  • Eichenberger: Stewardship, not Purity

    by Dan Eichenberger M.D. At the birth of the American republic, the Founders staked everything on a revolutionary conviction: human rights do not originate with kings, courts or governments. They are “endowed by their Creator” with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.…

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