Franke: Civic Bargain Book Review
by Mark Franke One hears the word democracy so often these days — and in so many contexts — that it has lost its meaning. There is the tiresome charge that anything Donald Trump does is a threat to democracy on one hand and on the other hand a rather pedantic academic argument that we are Read the full article…
Snow: Legislative Failure
by Nathanael Snow, Ph.D. People respond to incentives. Governor Mike Braun has called a special session of Indiana’s legislature for the purpose of redrawing Congressional District lines. Indiana voters ask Braun why he cares so much. What’s in it for him? And then let the legislators ask the same question. A legislature is supposed to be Read the full article…
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…
