Category: Indiana Writers Group

by Leo Morris Does it embarrass you to know that the Ku Klux Klan was once such a dominant force in Indiana? Want to ignore that whole sorry episode from our past and never mention it again? Or should we teach it in our schools as a way to remind the oppressors’ descendants of the…

by Mark Franke Senator Elizabeth Warren pronounced recently that the police in Ferguson, Missouri, were guilty of murder in spite of the fact that a grand jury and the Obama Justice Department exonerated them. No matter to Sen. Warren, who has a propensity to play fast and loose with the truth. Witness her claim to…

by Maryann O. Keating It is almost September and classes have begun or are about to start. We detect some reluctance in students, but not in adds for school supplies or with summer-weary parents. Parents and retailers are more than ready. For teachers as well, there is inevitably an autumn bounce in starting anew and…

by Leo Morris Gov. Eric Holcomb always looks so comfortably stern, like an accountant at tax time waiting for his client’s big gulp of ulcer medicine to kick in. He needs a good nickname to lighten his image. Something like “Fuzzy,” the sidekick for one of those singing cowboys, there mostly for comic relief but…

THE HEADLINE is an exaggeration for effect, as modern journalists now define lying. The government, you see, is deciding whether to “red flag” us for one thing or another, and, most ominously, what the criteria for such a flagging should be. In the meantime, we have our own red flags, one warning of a media…

A goal of the Sept. 12 seminar in Terre Haute is to build an action plan, “Footholds,” that will guide members throughout the state on how to be effective as minority members of a city council.  If you cannot attend, please consider making a tax-deductible gift in the interest of your city. Your help with podium fees…

by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. It is sometimes helpful to use an analogy to get a handle on difficult economic concepts. Assume for the moment that Indiana and California are two separate sovereign states. Indiana exports large amounts of corn to California, and California in turn exports large amounts of oranges to Indiana. What if…

by Craig Ladwig Gannett Company, Inc., which owns five metropolitan dailies here in Indiana and more than 100 nationwide, is nearing a deal to combine with a private-equity-backed firm with “a reputation for aggressively slashing expenses,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “The companies are grappling with a brutal environment for local newspapers around the country,”…

by Leo Morris When I heard that South Bend Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg had taught himself Norwegian just to read more books by an author he enjoyed, my immediate reaction was to join with other conservatives in hurling a wicked retort. Mine was: Now, perhaps he will learn English so he can read…

“Only the future is certain, the past is always changing.” ― Douglas Schofield in “Time of Departure” MY CONGRESSMAN was in the Indianapolis Star the other day promising that he would make certain that white supremacists are named, targeted and defeated. “I deployed to Afghanistan as a response to radical Islamic terrorism,” he said. “We…