McGisms, Dry-Ice Funerals and Journalism’s Salvation
by Craig Ladwig You reach an age when you begin to repeat yourself, telling your best stories over again to the pained faces of friends and loved ones. Some of my stories are the exploits of a tobacco-chewing, free-range reporter who mentored me early in my career. He came to mind this week reading some Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Republicans in the Dock
by Craig Ladwig Eric Holcomb, Lt. Governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate, has yet another title, Explainer in Chief. And his first comment out of the box — “I want to provide high-quality, good government” — falls short of the times. Please know that with a supermajority in the legislature, the GOP economic record these last Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Minimum Wage, Minimum Thought
by Craig Ladwig “We’ve gotta protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen.” — Gov. William J. Le Ptomaine (Mel Brooks) in “Blazing Saddles” A section of your brain becomes inaccessible once you figure out how to make a living spending other people’s money on other people. It is nature’s way of protecting the virtuecrat from mortification. Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (82): Gov. McNutt and the New Deal
by Andrea Neal If Franklin Delano Roosevelt had not run for an unprecedented third term in 1940, there is a good possibility that Hoosier Paul Vories McNutt of Franklin would have become the 33rd President of the United States. One of the most powerful politicians Indiana has ever seen, McNutt had “astonishingly good looks,” according Read the full article…
Huston: GOP Childishness
In 1996, another Texas Senator sought the Republican presidential nomination unsuccessfully. This was his explanation for entering the race: “I am running for president because I want to finish the Reagan revolution. I am also running for president because I believe, if we don’t change the policy of our government, if we don’t change it Read the full article…
Schansberg: Reflections on ‘Trumpers’
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. I’m not pro-Trump in terms of his style or his substance. That said, I’m not as anti-Trump, for a number of reasons: 1. I think a lot of Trump’s approach is rhetoric. To be sure, the rhetoric is not always helpful — and often harmful — and thus, regrettable. Most people, Read the full article…
