Op-Ed: The Eternal ‘Red Line’ — Funded or Not
by Fred McCartney The people in this city who decided on the Palladium-to-Stadium bus route (otherwise known as the Red Line) are determined to go ahead with that plan, even though it obviously means further delay in the needed expansion of city-wide bus service to those who would use it and truly need it. While Read the full article…
Keating: Trump Trade Policy
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. There was much soul searching at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association held in Chicago last month. Four ex-chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, two Democrats and two Republicans, commented in a panel discussion on economic issues facing President Donald Trump. His proposed trade policies concerned Read the full article…
White Paper: ‘The Unraveling’
by DAVID LANTZ The author is an adjunct instructor for economics at Indiana Wesleyan University. This was written as part of the American Enterprise Institute’s “Values and Capitalism” project. (Dec 30) — The Oxford Dictionary has declared as its 2016 Word of the Year: Post-Truth, defined as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: The Gas Tax
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.” — Doug Adams, author of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” IT IS STRANGE POLITICAL WEATHER when the Democrat plan makes more sense than the Republican one. The reason is not an ideological flip. It is that ideology has died — on Read the full article…
Andrea Neal: Dollars to the Classroom
by Andrea Neal Indiana education spending is at an all-time high, yet the percentage of money going to classroom instruction is dropping. Lawmakers have criticized the trend for more than a decade and are trying to do something about it. Rep. Mike Karickhoff, R-Kokomo, says it will be a session priority “to make sure more Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The House Republican Campaign Committee, Puppet Master of the General Assembly
“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind.” — Thomas Sowell. by Cmdr. John Pickerill The Indiana Read the full article…
