The Test: 32 Years of Fraud
THOSE WHO WERE AROUND during the administration of Republican Gov. Robert Orr know the assumption behind statewide grade-by-grade, district-by-district testing. It was thought that the then-powerful teachers unions were protecting inadequate or at least mediocre teachers. That was quickly found false. Indiana schools are blessedly free of bad teachers relative to other states, and that Read the full article…
Morris: The Andrew Luck Drama
by Leo Morris It’s stretched beyond two weeks since the abrupt departure of the Colts quarterback, and so far, we seem to have been spared the awful kind of puns usually favored by newspaper headline writers and TV news readers: “Colts are out of Luck.” “Team can’t count on good Luck.” And, what would have Read the full article…
The Outstater
THE MAN AT THE NEXT DESK says nobody wants to read about our city’s problems anymore. He is almost surely right, but there remains the possibility that some other Indiana city is experiencing an arrogant administration unchecked by a fawning newspaper. On that slim chance, the following observations are offered. It began with an editorial Read the full article…
Morris: Manufactured Crises
by Leo Morris “We’re All Going to Die!” Imagine seeing a headline like that. Naturally you can’t ignore such a story. So, palms sweating and perhaps heart fluttering, you begin to read, dreading news of a ghastly plague sweeping the globe or a brewing nuclear war or even an unstoppable meteor the size of Texas Read the full article…
Morris: Squelching History
by Leo Morris Does it embarrass you to know that the Ku Klux Klan was once such a dominant force in Indiana? Want to ignore that whole sorry episode from our past and never mention it again? Or should we teach it in our schools as a way to remind the oppressors’ descendants of the Read the full article…
Franke: What’s Happened with the Police?
by Mark Franke Senator Elizabeth Warren pronounced recently that the police in Ferguson, Missouri, were guilty of murder in spite of the fact that a grand jury and the Obama Justice Department exonerated them. No matter to Sen. Warren, who has a propensity to play fast and loose with the truth. Witness her claim to Read the full article…
