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…
Morris: A Top-10 Hoax
by Leo Morris In the spirit of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story” radio segments. Let’s call this the bestseller that never was, adapted from author J. Mark Powell’s version of the incident. “Shep” (that’s how he referred to himself) was born and raised in Indiana but after serving in World War II had Read the full article…
An Unmentionable Election
EDITOR’S NOTE — For the serious political observer, regardless of stripe, it was an extraordinary outcome. A first-term Republican, a quiet former banker who nonetheless stood up to the local Chamber of Commerce and a phalanx of economic-development interests, was reelected while being outspent three-to-one in both the primary and the general. And this was done in a gale of Read the full article…
The Outstater
THE TABLE TURNED SUDDENLY a decade ago. One day Indiana state government served us, the next day we served it. It happened during a state Senate Appropriations Committee hearing when the chairman took a moment to explain to a young legislator how things were going to work. The issue was repeal of the onerous and Read the full article…
