Author: Craig Ladwig

DST: It’s that #$%&! Time Again (Oct. 29) — Most of Indiana will be setting clocks back one hour this Sunday as the state leaves Daylight Saving Time, an insane contraption of the legislative mind and a chrono-biological insult to the citizenry. When Indiana approved Daylight Saving Time (DST) in 2005 it opted for Eastern instead…

Editor’s note:  Opposition to data centers was voiced at this year’s state conference of the NAACP in Fort Wayne. The director of its Center for Environmental and Climate Justice has stated that black and brown communities bear the cost of the new technology.  By Shashank Chandrakumara One midwest rust-belt state thinks it can put old energy to work attracting…

The Role of Citizenship by Mark Franke What is a citizen? What defines citizenship? Is it a set of rights and privileges? Or is it a set of duties and obligations? Or perhaps some of both? More philosophically, is citizenship something bestowed by the government or does it inhere naturally within those who reside under…

by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. I grew up reading sports writers like Grantland Rice, Art Dailey and Red Smith.  Their writing caught the nuances of whatever sport they covered and, if anything, they understated the achievements of the competitors and the teams.  The writing hewed closer to reporting.  That meant that theirs readers had to form their own…

by Mark Franke One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For example, don’t use a lot of technical jargon if you are not writing for a technical audience. The same goes for using college-level words if your readers do not hold…

Oops, Budgets Require Priorities HERE’S HOW my city is going to meet the challenges of taxpayer-friendly changes in how property taxes are applied: It’s going to pretend nothing happened.  The Legislature has reformed the state’s property tax system to provide relief for homeowners and businesses through phased increases in homestead deductions, new tax credits and expanded business…

Millions Gather To Express Total Ignorance About Political System Regarding this weekend’s “No Kings” marches, we cannot do better than the satirical Babylon Bee: “Millions of Americans took to the streets today in order to express to the world their total and absolute ignorance about the political system they live in. “Several major cities including…

The Indiana Daily Student, RIP? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . .” — First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution THE FIRST AMENDMENT is written as clearly as humanly possible. That won’t matter, of course,…

The End of Race Grifting MASS MEDIA REGULARLY finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion. Readership, please know, is approaching statistical irrelevance. It is understandable then that corporate outfits such as Indianapolis’s Capital Chronicle are leaning heavily on contrived polling to support their points of view. What, for example, do Hoosiers think about redistricting? Without context, it is…

War of the Worlds II A LEARNED PROFESSOR of my acquaintance argues that we have become an “unserious” people. I not been sure how to test his theory — COVID, AOC and the Obama Library being indicative but not decisive. That was until the arrival of 31/ATLAS.  I am referring of course to an interstellar object, possibly…