Property Taxes Are Back in the News as Bills Arrive
Property Taxes Are Back In the News as Bills Arrive Indiana Writers Group column for release at noon Oct. 27 and thereafter (829 words)Editors: Column body is 602 words; list of property tax hearings is 226 and may be cut Expect property taxes to be back in the headlines now that November bills are due. Read the full article…
Are Aspirations for Education Too big for Our Pocketbooks?
For release noon Tuesday Sept. 20 and thereafter (685 words) In general, Americans love and respect traditions associated with their schools, public and private. Friday night football, winter basketball games in cozy gyms, high school graduation open houses, senior proms, etc., hold for the most part a warm place in our hearts. In Indiana, old Read the full article…
Responsibility Means More Indians, Fewer Chiefs
(Editors: Please note that this week’s dispatch includes two articles by economist Maryann Keating: The first on the conflicted relationship between societal aspirations and individual responsibility; and the second on the question of public willingness to support education at current spending levels.) For release noon Tuesday Sept. 20 and thereafter (625 words) Our obsession with Read the full article…
Gambling at a Crossroads as Lottery Marks 20th Anniversary
For release noon Oct. 13 and thereafter (675 words) It was 20 years ago this week that easy money prevailed over traditional Hoosier mores. On Oct. 13, 1989 – one year after voters repealed the state’s constitutional ban on lotteries – the first scratch-off ticket was sold. Since that time, we have embraced the gambling Read the full article…
Wages, Sex and Parity in Indiana
For release noon Tuesday Oct. 6 thereafter (718 words) Several years ago at Butler University, feminist activists visited classrooms and handed out “Pay Day” candy bars to the students. The feminists were calling attention to the fact that women, collectively, earn less money than men. In addition to the candy bar, feminists gave us a Read the full article…
The Revenue Forecast: ‘Close Enough for Government Work’
For immediate release (622 words)The news that Indiana missed last month’s revenue estimate by a whopping $165 million brings to mind the pejorative, “close enough for government work.” When or if the nation emerges from the current malfeasance, we will want to rethink our reverence for state government. Particularly, we will want to choose which Read the full article…
