Backgrounder: Hurricanes, Property and Haiti
by T. Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. Some years ago, I saw television advertisements by the lumber and wood products firm Weyerhaeuser Corporation. The ads began by showing Weyerhaeuser employees having just finished clear-cutting a mountainside in the Pacific Northwest. The next portion of the ad showed other Weyerhaeuser employees tromping up and down the clear-cut Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (97): Indy Calm as Nation Burned
by Andrea Neal On April 4, 1968, Indianapolis showed its best self. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy had come to town to hold a nighttime political rally at Broadway and 17th streets, a mostly black neighborhood near Downtown. Indianapolis Mayor Richard G. Lugar was attending a banquet at the Marott Hotel to celebrate Shortridge Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Journalism’s Conceit
by Craig Ladwig A young journalism major’s impassioned column in my morning Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, an appeal to use full-court persuasion, on the job and off, to oppose the president elect, got me to thinking about the future of my sorry profession. A few days earlier, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (96): Blue Grass and Bean Blossom
by Andrea Neal Before New York had Woodstock, Indiana had Bean Blossom. It’s just a notch in the road to motorists heading south from Indy on State Road 135 en route to the art colony at Nashville or Brown County State Park. But to folks who know bluegrass, it’s Mecca — home to the nation’s Read the full article…
Neal: Welcome to the New and Populist GOP
by Andrea Neal Mike Pence hit the nail on the head. On Sept. 8, while speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, he declared that the spirit of 1980 was back and that Donald Trump would win the White House. While others jeered, Pence predicted that the same forces that powered the Reagan Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (95): Our Purdue Astronauts
by Andrea Neal Before they were superheroes of the Space Age, they were students at Purdue. Virgil “Gus” Grissom, native of Mitchell in Lawrence County, Purdue Class of 1950, was one of seven astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury, the United States’ first man-in-space program. Roger Chaffee, Class of ’57, helped develop flight control Read the full article…
