There, We’ve Said It: Young People Are Overrated
(For the use of the membership only, not for publication, distribution, quotation or reproduction.) “Our parents don’t know how to use a ******* democracy, so we have to.” — David Hogg, 18, an organizer of the “March for Our Lives” protests. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ASSUMED to have magical qualities. They are the future, it is said Read the full article…
Eco-Devo Questions Down the Memory Hole
For the use of the membership only. COMPLAINING ABOUT what a newspaper doesn’t print is like complaining about a shoe store that doesn’t carry your size. But not exactly. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution sets newspapers above other businesses, extends privileges that would land the owner of a shoe store in jail. In Read the full article…
Morris: School Shootings and Climate Change
by Leo Morris I am a heartless monster who doesn’t care that our children are being slaughtered in their schools. I am an inhuman fiend indifferent to the plight of future generations who will inherit the ravaged planet we will leave them. I will be saddened but not terribly surprised if that is a common Read the full article…
The Crash Landing of a Supermajority
by Craig Ladwig A prominent Indiana Republican stopped by a few days before this session ended to deliver a self-aggrandizing lecture on the difference between holding office and merely “spouting philosophy.” There was a day that some of us here would have conceded the point. Today is not that day. A Republican supermajority made a Read the full article…
Business Leadership Silent on TIF
by Fred McCarthy We found it interesting that the local Chamber of Commerce, which in theory represents the business community, has volunteered to help a governmental agency more easily increase the tax burden on the business community. It comes as no surprise for in recent years we do not recall the Chamber ever questioning tax Read the full article…
Similarities in Foreclosed NC Deal and Fort Wayne’s ‘Electric Works’
by Jason Arp In 2003, Capitol Broadcasting in concert with the city of Durham, North Carolina, put forth an effort to reinvigorate downtown Durham by redeveloping the American Tobacco Company properties there into apartments, retail space and offices. The project, costing far more than its real market value, reportedly ended in bankruptcy. Now we learn Read the full article…
