Op-Ed: An Alternative to Public-Private ‘Partnerships’
by Jason Arp Government-run economic development entities are having a difficult time replicating the real thing. News stories from around Indiana point to problems related to creating what I call synthetic economies: The Muncie building commissioner is charged with wire fraud, theft and money-laundering; a Marion tax district lost $2.5 million on a failed hotel project; Read the full article…
The Outstater: ‘Fake’ News — Literally
IF YOU ARE AMONG THOSE struggling with a definition of “fake” news, we have an illustration (below). It is from page 4A of the Monday issue of the Gannett corporate national publication known locally as the Indianapolis Star. You can see that the page has three items on it: a news article and two advertisements. One Read the full article…
White Paper: The Anti-American American President
Barack Obama: America’s Anti-American President — Governance and Security Implications John F. Gaski, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-5266 jgaski@nd.edu The author is a long-time registered Democrat―and a long-time registered Republican― intermittently, not sequentially, which should dispatch any possible impression of partisanship. Dr. Gaski’s primary Read the full article…
The Outstater: McCain and Journalism
John McCain, the anti-Trump, tells us he knows how to spot a dictator. He will be the one trying to suppress a free press. But Senator McCain was wrong about the effective range of North Vietnamese AAA fire and he is wrong about this. For starters let us assume that, by “suppressing,” McCain does not Read the full article…
Keating: Guaranteed Employment
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. In the civics section of the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress, eighth graders were tested on this question: “Which of the following is a belief shared by most people of the United States?” The country should have a single political party. The country should have an official religion. The Read the full article…
Schansberg: Government Groceries
Not for publication. For the use of the membership only. by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. The downtown of Louisville across the river is now a food “desert” in that it has few significant grocery stores. Last year, four prominent groceries closed there and a proposed WalMart was sacked by legal hurdles and social hassles. Grocery stores Read the full article…
