A Primer for Primary Challengers
THE DESIGNERS of IndianaScorecard, featured in the upcoming spring journal, say they provide everything you need to mount a primary challenge except the shoe leather. Visitors to the site can look up a representative or senator by last name or district by using the search function or more simply scrolling the columns (which can be set Read the full article…
The Outstater
Understanding Holcomb (For the use of the membership only.) “This victory (Governor Holcomb’s veto of a bill banning transgenders from playing on girls sports teams) belongs to the trans youth of Indiana, who deserve to live as their authentic selves and to play the sports they love, free from discrimination.” — Katie Blair, ACLU of Indiana. WE HAVE Read the full article…
McGowan: A Half Century of Title IX
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” — Title IX The March 10 Wall Street Journal featured a celebratory picture whose caption read, “Tennis Read the full article…
Morris: DST? You Can Thank Mitch Daniels
by Leo Morris Up in the mornin’,Out on the jobWork like the devil for my payBut that lucky old sunGot nothin’ to doBut roll around heaven all day. — Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie, 1949 If there is any justice in this world, the kind that makes public officials have to live by the rules they Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
GOP’s Diversity Bandwagon MY LOCAL GOP chairman is jumping on Gov. Eric Holcomb’s “diversity” bandwagon. A meeting this weekend at GOP headquarters here featured two young Republican people of color (POC) telling us what we should be doing to attract more of them. It is a great idea — and futile. A reporter left the meeting with the idea that Read the full article…
Franke: ‘The Big Sort’
by Mark Franke Journalist Bill Bishop coined the term “the Big Sort” to describe an increasing propensity among Americans to sort themselves into clusters of like-minded groups. One would think this is only natural as people tend to gravitate toward others with similar interests, lifestyles and affinities. Take housing. To a large extent we tend Read the full article…
