Franke
Coveting: America’s Favorite Deadly Sin by Mark Franke I attended a Lutheran elementary school, grades one through eight, back during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. It was a traditional education with a lot of memorization—presidents, state capitals, books of the Bible and so forth. I still can recite those lists but it gets tougher with Read the full article…
The Outstater
Journalism and the Lost Art of the Quirky OTHER THAN SOLID INFORMATION on which to base viewpoints and life strategies, the thing I miss most in my morning reading is quirkiness. There’s no time for those little stories that remind us how heroic — and how ridiculous — is the human race. Yes, I have examples. There Read the full article…
Morris: Our Crumbling Sense of Privacy
by Leo Morris I did some really stupid things when I was young and dumb. Who didn’t? Some of them were embarrassing, and some of them made me feel downright ashamed. But I recognized my failings and tried to learn from my mistakes, which is all any of us can do. I think I became Read the full article…
The Outstater
‘Infrastructure’ Is an Open Spigot DR. MARYANN O. KEATING, author of the cover article for the current issue of The Indiana Policy Review, is an expert on the economics of infrastructure. Even she was surprised, though, to learn that some Indiana cities don’t prioritize or even coherently define infrastructure in their spending. A real-time example crossed our desk this Read the full article…
Morris: The Holcomb Way
Learning to Speak Holcombese by Leo Morris I’m a little worried. I think I’m starting to understand Gov. Holcomb. When he was talking about the Afghan refugees, he said he wanted Indiana to “be there on the back end” after the 14-day screening and vetting process. That means that if nothing goes wrong, the state Read the full article…
The Outstater
Save the Babies; Don’t Pay Rent THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR has its entry for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. It is “Do it for the Baby: Indianapolis Renters Plead to Stave off Evictions as Moratorium Ends.” The co-authors are Ko Lyn Cheang and Binghui Huang. Published yesterday, it is a certain winner. If you are too busy to read the entire Read the full article…
