McGowan: Into the Slag Heap of Affirmative Action
“There are very mediocre people out there who run stuff, but nobody out there told them they can’t. You’re just as capable.” — Michelle Obama to the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana, quoted by Suzette Hackney in the Feb. 13 Indianapolis Star by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Recent news stories have again focused on affirmative action, Read the full article…
A Pageant of Newspaper Stunts
by Leo Morris I honestly wasn’t going to write about the Miss America pageant dropping the swimsuit competition, even when the news came that the Miss Indiana contest would naturally follow suit, so to speak. It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say about it. I just calculated that anything I did say was Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
The Indiana Republican Party is moribund, done in by the hubris of a supermajority and its flaccid governor, Eric Holcomb. That was clear at the state convention this spring in Evansville. Until recently, nobody read the platform texts approved at these gatherings . They were little more than boilerplate on family, patriotism, free markets and Read the full article…
Franke: The Customer Is Always Right, but Which One?
by Mark Franke I took a class on business policy during my undergraduate days, back when Richard Nixon was still in his first term. My professor emphasized this key to business success: Serve the public. The point was that your business must always think about your customers’ needs and wants, and to use that as Read the full article…
Morris: Purple Now Marks Your Property
by Leo Morris As a curmudgeon of long standing, I come from the “get off my lawn” school of private property. It’s direct, it’s simple, it provides no chance of misunderstanding. And just in case I’m not on hand to shout people off the premises, there is a nifty little sign that gets the job Read the full article…
Gaski: South Bend’s ‘Worst City’ Status Explained
“South Bend is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. There were 1,012 violent crimes in South Bend for every 100,000 residents in 2016, more than double both the state and national violent crime rates of 405 incidents and 386 incidents per 100,000 people, respectively. As is often the case in high-crime Read the full article…
