Keating: A New School Year
by Maryann O. Keating It is almost September and classes have begun or are about to start. We detect some reluctance in students, but not in adds for school supplies or with summer-weary parents. Parents and retailers are more than ready. For teachers as well, there is inevitably an autumn bounce in starting anew and Read the full article…
Morris: Gov. Holcomb and ‘Brand X’
by Leo Morris Gov. Eric Holcomb always looks so comfortably stern, like an accountant at tax time waiting for his client’s big gulp of ulcer medicine to kick in. He needs a good nickname to lighten his image. Something like “Fuzzy,” the sidekick for one of those singing cowboys, there mostly for comic relief but Read the full article…
Indiana Policy Review Guilty of Scuttling Islandic Summit
THE HEADLINE is an exaggeration for effect, as modern journalists now define lying. The government, you see, is deciding whether to “red flag” us for one thing or another, and, most ominously, what the criteria for such a flagging should be. In the meantime, we have our own red flags, one warning of a media Read the full article…
The ‘Foothold Project’
A goal of the Sept. 12 seminar in Terre Haute is to build an action plan, “Footholds,” that will guide members throughout the state on how to be effective as minority members of a city council. If you cannot attend, please consider making a tax-deductible gift in the interest of your city. Your help with podium fees Read the full article…
Keating: Indiana Corn, California Oranges
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. It is sometimes helpful to use an analogy to get a handle on difficult economic concepts. Assume for the moment that Indiana and California are two separate sovereign states. Indiana exports large amounts of corn to California, and California in turn exports large amounts of oranges to Indiana. What if Read the full article…
The Fall of the Star: Ownership Mattered
by Craig Ladwig Gannett Company, Inc., which owns five metropolitan dailies here in Indiana and more than 100 nationwide, is nearing a deal to combine with a private-equity-backed firm with “a reputation for aggressively slashing expenses,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “The companies are grappling with a brutal environment for local newspapers around the country,” Read the full article…
