Schansberg: The Grateful Santa
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. My wife and I have a friend who has worked at a large retail store as an elf with Santa. She has told us some great stories about the wide variety of Santas and customers she has experienced. She has nicknamed some of the Santas she encountered. I had heard of Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
WHY WOULD ANYONE spend an estimated $100,000 to win a district council election, especially when the incumbent was heavily outvoted at the council table? Yes, that’s a district council race in a midsized Indiana city, and that $100,000 is said to be a state record. Clearly, it was important to keep the incumbent from using Read the full article…
Help Us Get a ‘Foothold’
WE WERE CHALLENGED recently to name one Indiana city council with a majority of members committed to smaller government. We could not. Indeed, we couldn’t remember one — ever. It is attestation that we’re losing the battle and the war. It’s time to change the strategy For starters, we have to stop . . . doing what we’re Read the full article…
Franke: Library Modernization
by Mark Franke I have an obsession, no doubt an unhealthy one since it controls me and not I it. I love to read . . . all the time. It is so bad that I never go anywhere without reading material just in case I have to wait for a few minutes. I actually Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
I AM SUSPICIOUS of downtown economic development plans and their related public-private partnerships. That’s not because I know much about economics or even business generally. They simply don’t pass my grandfather test. That is, my grandfather would be asking a question: If all you have to do to create a wealthy downtown is slap together a Read the full article…
Franke: Not Your Grandfather’s Party
by Mark Franke A recent column in the Washington Examiner magazine focused on a congressional candidate in Michigan running as a conservative Republican in a Republican district. No big news there except for the fact that the candidate comes from a low income, Latino, union family. This is Michael J. Fox and “Family Ties” in Read the full article…
