The Outstater: A Reinvented Indy Star?
For the use of the membership only (534 words) INDIANA’S ONLY STATEWIDE newspaper has reinvented itself, we are told. You should hope it succeeds — for the sake of the hard-working, ink-stained souls there but also for the health of our public discussion. Yet, there are veteran newsmen still at their desks who have been “reinvented” dozens Read the full article…
Huston: Republicans Can’t Throw a Punch
by Tom Charles Huston I cannot resist a certain admiration for the sheer audacity of the criminal enterprise that is the Obama administration. Its tentacles extend to so many branches, bureaus and cubbyholes of the Leviathan as to defy diagramming, and its unity of action without unity of command offers a new model for imperial Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (31): ‘Paddle Your Own Canoe’
by Andrea Neal James Whitcomb Riley was the most acclaimed, but he wasn’t the first Hoosier poet to gain national fame. Sarah T. Bolton deserves that honor. Even today her poem “Paddle Your Own Canoe” is cited and recited, though few know anything about its origins. Her poetry “was known everywhere,” and the canoe poem Read the full article…
Schansberg: The Incongruities of Labor Unions
Editors: The following article (624 words) was released in coincidence with National Employee Freedom Week on Aug. 10-16. A related opinion survey finds that 85 percent of Hoosiers agree with Indiana’s right-to-work law, i.e., that an employee should have the right to decide, without force or penalty, whether to join or leave a labor union. Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: The Game Is Up
TWO POLITICAL STUDIES hit the news this week, seeming to point us in different directions. One, from Princeton University, suggested that average Americans are powerless over the political process. The other, from CNN International, found that only 13 percent of us trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time. You Read the full article…
Keating: Reduced Hours or Layoffs?
By Maryann O. Keating Ph.D. At dinner, the four-year-old reported that her nursery school classmate, Billy, had a bad day and acted mean. When asked what the teacher did, the four-year-old replied wide-eyed, “She took away Billy’s job.” Most of us can empathize with Billy’s symbolic loss of group identity. However, adult unemployment generally is beyond Read the full article…
