A Politician Who Hires People With His Own Money
For the use of the membership only (650 words) When our friend Ryan Cummins is in town we always learn something. Cummins, a former Terre Haute councilman, comes to Indianapolis to buy flowers and plants for his family landscaping and garden business. Did you catch that? The man actually makes a payroll. At my foundation’s Read the full article…
Daniels PR Machine Backfires
‘Covering Variable Costs’ in the Daniels Administration (For the membership only, not for publication, quotation or distribution) A friend of mine, a professor, has a fancy way of telling his family that he’s not doing much — “I’m covering variable costs,” he might say from the couch on a Saturday afternoon. He is using the Read the full article…
Property Rights in the Dock: Siwinskis vs. Ogden Dunes
For the use of the membership only (808 words) When the Indiana State Supreme Court behaves as a micro legislature, setting aside Rule of Law to pursue its notion of the sublime, it opens itself to political criticism — and here comes some on the issue of property rights. In a myopic ruling in Siwinski Read the full article…
Were the Founders Soft on Cursive?
For the use of the membership only (687 words) It seemed a harmless enough idea. The copy editor here, Joyce Preest, who holds a graduate degree in communication, wrote a lament about the recent decision by Indiana educators to abandon cursive or so-called “secretary” writing. Her column, published widely, split families right down the Carolingian Read the full article…
Indy Street Lights Still Burning
For release Oct. 19 and thereafter (680 words) Rummaging around in my purse for quarters to feed a parking meter Friday, I muttered something under my breath about City Hall. As a result of Mayor Greg Ballard’s 2010 lease agreement with a private vendor, I not only pay more to park on city streets but Read the full article…
Scoring the Indiana Chamber
For release Oct. 12 and thereafter (673 words) “Thanks to an astonishing political transformation, many chambers of commerce on the state and local levels have been abandoning (traditional) goals. They’re becoming, in effect, lobbyists for big government.” — Stephen Moore, the Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2007 It is a question asked routinely — almost Read the full article…
