A Better Primary System
by Jon Bingham Once again, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina winnow the field and shape the race. The looming avalanche of 14 Super Tuesday contests defines (no, more like overwhelms) the prospects of the few candidates remaining. Meanwhile, Indiana watches from the sidelines. Beyond the political calendar noted above, many other flaws in Read the full article…
Hillsdale Constitution Study in Fort Wayne
The Constitution, Fully Understood THE INDIANA POLICY REVIEW FOUNDATION in cooperation with Hillsdale College is sponsoring the first of what we hope will be a statewide series of Constitution Study Groups. This first session will be held June 19-20 in Fort Wayne. The group, meeting at The Chapel, 2505 West Hamilton Road South, is organized Read the full article…
Morris: Indiana’s History with the Flu
by Leo Morris A few years after my 1983 move to Fort Wayne, I was sitting in a restaurant on the south side of town when the dishes on all the tables rattled, as if the floor had suddenly shifted beneath us. The next day, I read that a 5-point-something earthquake had hit the seismic Read the full article…
Van Cott: Student Loans
by Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. College students currently graduate with an average student loan debt of $30,000. At a 4 percent interest rate, monthly payments of $304 ($3,648 per year) retire the debt in 10 years. In all the current brouhaha about the college loan crisis, an important cost to borrowers is unmentioned. To wit, Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
“So this is how liberty dies . . . with thunderous applause.” — Sen. Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of Sith WOULD YOU SAY your district representative is reasonably conservative, that is, conversant with the founding principles of Indiana and the nation? If so, you would be wrong. The proof is passage Read the full article…
Backgrounder: We’re Rebar Rich
by JASON ARP When a political machine runs your town, you get results that may not make much economic sense but are nonetheless predictable — predictably bad. Who, for example, would spend the equivalent of $220 a month to lease a space for which they intend to get revenue equivalent to $65 per month? The Read the full article…
