The Outstater
The House of Bayh WITH BEAU BAYH crossing three state lines to begin his ancestral run for high office here, what better time to reconstitute Indiana as a sovereign kingdom? The state already owes fealty to the Bayh family, this being the third generation of their civic reign. No, none has been particularly distinguished but achievement is not the justification of Read the full article…
Arp: The IEDC Chickens Have Roosted
by JASON ARP Nearly 10 years ago, I published an article in The Indiana Policy Review(Backgrounder: Regional Cities Plans, Jan. 1, 2016) describing some of the issues related to the State of Indiana’s plan to institute a Regional Development Authority (RDA) to fund what were deemed to be multi-county economic development projects. The concerns expressed in that article focused Read the full article…
White Paper: Data Centers
The foundation’s white papers are intended to make scholarly research on Indiana issues more widely available to policy analysts and researchers. White Papers represent research in progress and are published to invite comment and discussion as preparation for their submission to academic journals and other professional publications. The authors are solely responsible for the content Read the full article…
Franke: The Saudi Transformation
by MARK FRANKE Saudi Arabia is a complex nation, containing a whole bunch of conquered Bedouin tribes content to live off the largess of the ruling house of al-Saud. Most of the nation’s workforce, which is limited by a general lack of work ethic among the aforesaid recipients of governmental transfer payments, is employed by Read the full article…
The Outstater
Count Me Uncivilized “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.” — James Madison THE FIRST ANNUAL Project Civility Summit has adjourned to much hope and acclaim in our lovely, homogenous Carmel. In addition to the “leadership training” that such Read the full article…
McGowan: Fatherhood — Tussling With the WSJ
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. My experience with the Wall Street Journal, chronicled in this column a year and a half ago, showed how little awareness the paper had regarding domestic violence. My recent experience with the newspaper shows how much improvement the WSJ and United States could make in order to promote equality among the individuals in our Read the full article…
