The Outstater
The Municipally Privileged “All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt HAS YOUR CITY worked out its new budget with the cuts and adjustments made necessary by property-tax reform? Mine has done so, and in a long, torturous process inscrutable Read the full article…
The Outstater
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 Read the full article…
Chandrakumara: Data Centers
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 Read the full article…
Franke: The Role of Citizenship
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 Read the full article…
McGowan: Not the ‘Greatest’ Game
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 Read the full article…
Franke: The Huge Dictionary in the Corner
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 Read the full article…
