The Outstater
Defund the Regulators COULD IT BE that the resentment and envy that is Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police and Racial Reckoning have run their course? If so, there are solid options from which community leaders could choose, options that open up neighborhoods to commercial opportunity. But somebody will have to fight for them. The experts in urban renewal will Read the full article…

Morris
Preparing for the Primaries by Leo Morris Res ipsa loquitur. That’s a useful Latin phrase meaning, “The thing speaks for itself.” It’s a legal tactic commonly used in negligence cases. It claims that the guilt of the defendant is so patently obvious that little evidence need accompany the charge. In a case of medical malpractice, Read the full article…

Moss
Against Modern Day Pharaohs by Richard Moss, M.D. With spring on its way and the world moving on from COVID, I was looking forward to attending the Passover Seder at the temple my family and I have attended for some 30 years. We have been less involved as the children have gotten older, but I wanted Read the full article…

The Outstater
Purdue’s Ethics Expert WE AREN’T EXPERTS here on the ethics of politics, although we grant that there may be such a thing. Politics and ethics seem too juxtaposed in the journalistic firmament for us to manage the intellectual span. Andy Downs, however, is such an expert. He is the director of the Center for Indiana Politics Read the full article…

Franke
Baseball Is Back (for Better or Worse) by Mark Franke Baseball is back, finally. It seems the winters here in northeast Indiana get longer and longer, or maybe it’s just that I am getting older and older. I watched several major league baseball (MLB) games on opening weekend and last week attended my first game Read the full article…

Morris
Beware ‘The Next Big Thing’ by Leo Morris I’m so old that I remember when the Establishment set the rules and rebels tried to break them. Now, we seem to be embarked on a great experiment in which the former rebels are in charge and determined to get rid of all the rules. Sometimes, I Read the full article…

