The Outstater
Yes, You Live in Corruption “Nothing happens until the right people own the land.”— anonymous THE MOST BASIC economic statistic is how many are coming and how many are going. So how do you explain that Indiana is now second only to Illinois in the number of people skedaddling. The national moving company Atlas says that Read the full article…
Morris: Let the Hoosier Mystique Be
by Leo Morris I have always been proud to be a Hoosier, proclaiming it boldly even to coastal snobs who almost think of it as a confession of mental deficiency. I was not born in Indiana, but I was raised enough here to have adopted its values as my own – hard work, thrift, loyalty, Read the full article…
Franke: Is This the Government We Deserve?
By Mark Franke Is This the Government We Deserve? “You get the government you deserve.” Thomas Jefferson I don’t have a Ph.D. in political science but one is hardly needed to realize something is seriously wrong with the current state of our government. It isn’t that the President commits oral gaffe after gaffe or that Read the full article…
McGowan: The Poster Children for Capitalism
By Richard McGowan, Ph.D. A person once wrote, “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” Besides strong socialists, who would agree with that statement? Despite his statements about millionaires and billionaires, Bernie Sanders would not likely agree to the abolition of private property. He himself Read the full article…
The Outstater
It’s a Dunder-Mifflin World “There is beauty in ordinary things; isn’t that kind of the point?” — Pam in the last line of “The Office.” OVERCAST, FRIGID JANUARY is a good month for reruns and deep thoughts, or at least as deep as one’s thinking mechanism allows. Here’s one: Maybe the politicians aren’t to blame; maybe Read the full article…
Morris: My Guide to the Legislature
by Leo Morris As another Indiana legislative session begins, there is an interesting dynamic at work. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, proposing his final two-year budget as a lame duck, is laying out an ambitious and in some ways historic spending plan. He endorses hundreds of millions more for such things as education, public health, economic Read the full article…
