The Outstater: When ‘Legacy’ Is Just Another Word
George C. Parker, a character to whom you will be more fully introduced later, would relish the ongoing discussions of how supposedly earmarked or set-aside funds can be spent by Indiana mayors. Few issues are so loaded with misconception, a specialty of Mr. Parker. It is an assumption of our municipal governments that city officials Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Fidel and Roberto, a Comparison
by T. Norman Van Cott, Ph.D., and Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. The October 1997 death of Roberto Goizueta, the former CEO of Coca-Cola who fled Cuba in 1961, and the recent death of Fidel Casto, Cuba’s president for life, offers an opportunity to make a telling comment on the Cuban economy. To wit, the corporate regime Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The Uncertainty of the Electoral College
by John Pickerill For some, the good news from the election was that Hillary Clinton wasn’t elected as President. For others, the bad news was that Donald Trump was elected President. The reality, however, is that not one vote has yet been cast for President of the United States. When you were voting you might Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Hurricanes, Property and Haiti
by T. Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. Some years ago, I saw television advertisements by the lumber and wood products firm Weyerhaeuser Corporation. The ads began by showing Weyerhaeuser employees having just finished clear-cutting a mountainside in the Pacific Northwest. The next portion of the ad showed other Weyerhaeuser employees tromping up and down the clear-cut Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (97): Indy Calm as Nation Burned
by Andrea Neal On April 4, 1968, Indianapolis showed its best self. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy had come to town to hold a nighttime political rally at Broadway and 17th streets, a mostly black neighborhood near Downtown. Indianapolis Mayor Richard G. Lugar was attending a banquet at the Marott Hotel to celebrate Shortridge Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Journalism’s Conceit
by Craig Ladwig A young journalism major’s impassioned column in my morning Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, an appeal to use full-court persuasion, on the job and off, to oppose the president elect, got me to thinking about the future of my sorry profession. A few days earlier, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New Read the full article…
