Keating: South Bend Utility Assistance
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. For low-income households, putting food on the table is the highest priority-and rightly so. Yet electricity, water, heating and telephone bills strongly increase the stress levels of both low- and middle-income households. This month, approximately 41,500 households received a letter this from the South Bend Mayor describing the City’s Utility Read the full article…
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Women Journalists Stressed AN INDIANAPOLIS EDITOR is crusading for more gentlemanly treatment of female journalists. She says they are being merciless trolled by online critics, suspiciously male. After a generation of “I am woman; hear me roar,” we aren’t going to put that on our worry list. An editor for the Capital Chronicle cites a United Nations study Read the full article…
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Hooray for Rokita, Braun TWO MORE OF THE ISSUES in our latest “Indiana Mandate” were taken up this week: The U.S. House wisely chose a single time standard and, more importantly, Indiana rejected socially ruinous affirmative action. Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General, issued a formal opinion stating that race and sex-based components of state contracting programs are unconstitutional. Read the full article…
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Indiana’s Muslim Test THE NEED to confront the Muslim scourge in our cities is dividing the Republican Party — or so you would expect. In Indiana, however, only Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is speaking out while other GOP leaders sit silent for fear that Julia Carson’s grandson, Andre, will call them bigots. Indeed, the governor upbraided Beckwith for not choosing his words more carefully, Read the full article…
Franke: Summer Parades
by Mark Franke It’s officially high summer according to the thermometer and, most importantly, according to the school vacation calendar. In the past that meant lots of community parades on Saturdays, most of which were aligned with that town’s summer festival week. Most of Fort Wayne’s surrounding towns had them. I know, because my Navy Read the full article…
Gaski: A Filibuster Primer
by John F. Gaski, Ph.D. A prominent political dilemma for Republicans is whether to abolish the Senate filibuster rule. Do so, and legislation will no longer require 60 votes for passage, only a simple majority. Doing so would also abandon a deliberative tradition in force since the mid-1800s. However, there presently is an overhang of another vital concern, Read the full article…
