‘Unleash Leo’ 2020
THE FOUNDATION NEEDS YOUR HELP continuing the weekly column of veteran newsman Leo Morris. If you mark your $50 annual membership fee “Unleash Leo” we will add another three months to the subscription. Leo’s voice is essential to the Indiana public discussion. A Vietnam veteran and a son of the coal mines, Leo describes himself as a libertarian-conservative hybrid Read the full article…
Morris: A Happy Birthday
by Leo Morris I quietly celebrated another year above ground earlier this month and realized I had reached the fourth stage of birthday celebrations. The first stage comes when we are young and yearn to be older. We want to escape childhood and reach the magic age of 13, gateway to the teenage years. We Read the full article…
Franke: Constitution Day
by Mark Franke As he was leaving the Constitutional Convention for the last time, a citizen asked Benjamin Franklin what the delegates had given her and her fellows. “A republic, if you can keep it.” To be precise, what Franklin and his colleagues had given us was a document that serves as the philosophical and Read the full article…
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…
