Penticuff: Grant for Grads
by David Penticuff Our “Grant for Grads” program is gone, for which we are grateful. In a fit of logic and submission to real life, our county economic growth council will no longer be shoveling so many tax dollars out the door to new college graduates in order to entice them to buy or rent Read the full article…
Franke: It’s Spring and Baseball Is Back
by Mark Franke Okay, so I’m not young anymore and haven’t been for a long time. But I still experience that mystical excitement every April just like when I was a boy and a new baseball season took off. My grandchildren don’t understand this, but we really did go through life back then without hundreds Read the full article…
Morris: The Pothole Challenge
by Leo Morris You’ve all heard the complaint. “If America can put a man on the moon, why can’t it . . . cure the common cold, or develop a long-lasting battery, or stop spending more than it takes in, or (fill in your favorite frustration)?” My current, less sweeping, version of that lament is: Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
Editors: You can check the social-capital index of your readership in the current issue of The Indiana Policy Review, “Social Capital: How It’s Created,” appendix tables, pp. 35-37 by Craig Ladwig A social-capital index for my Indiana county has decreased even as the population has increased. And a low ranking on such an index, according Read the full article…
Underestimating Cost of Shutting Coal Plants
by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. Republicans in the Indiana House are attempting to block the plan of Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s (NIPSCO) to prematurely shutter two large coal power plants and replace them largely with renewable energy sources. Republicans on Indiana’s House Utilities Committee passed an amendment to a Senate sewage and water bill Read the full article…
Morris: Primary Elections
by Leo Morris The three major mayoral candidates in my town — the Democratic incumbent and his two chief Republican challengers — are all cheerleaders for “economic development.” These days, that means pushing huge capital projects with too much public funding and too little private risk for the purpose of moving huge numbers of consumers Read the full article…
