The Outstater: Clarity and the Local Economy
For the use of the membership only; not for publication, duplication or quotation (490 words). by Craig Ladwig Those Indiana communities that can discuss fiscal and economic matters in clear and honest terms, what attracts investment and what does not, will have an advantage. Fort Wayne, in the midst of a discussion whether to take Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (85): Lt. Col. Horace Hickam
by Andrea Neal Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Horace Meek Hickam of Spencer played a central role in establishing the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces, but his name didn’t come to world attention until Dec. 7, 1941. Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, named posthumously after Colonel Hickam, adjoined Read the full article…
Letter to the editors
This is to commend a deputy chief of the Fort Wayne Police Department (FWPD) for making a clear and, considering the amount of political correctness in the air, courageous statement on the importance of both diverse hiring practices and upholding the standards of his department. “If you were in a medical crisis, when you go Read the full article…
The Outstater: Democracy by the Distant and Detached
(For the use of the membersip only.) SO, AFTER 12 YEARS of Republican leadership, four of them with a super majority, now with a place on the GOP presidential ticket, what could be wrong? At the top of my list is the absence of serious education reform, the kind detailed in the current issue of The Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (84): Ernie Pyle
by Andrea Neal “Life is completely changed for thousands of American boys on this side of the earth. For at last they are in there fighting.” Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote those words on Dec 1, 1942, while on assignment with U.S. forces in Algiers. The United States had entered World War II in Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The School Lunch Program
by Adrienne Carrier Most of us have halcyon memories of the school-lunch line — the cafeteria ladies, the half-pint milk cartons, always making sure to bring money on pizza day. Nostalgia, though, may mask what the lunch line now represents, that is, an overreaching federal program measuring success by the number of dependent families. We Read the full article…
