The Outstater: Civil Rights and Softheadedness — A Distinction
(For the use of the membership only; not for publication, duplication or quotation.) AT THIS WEEK’S council meeting in my city, during open comments at the end of the session right before they take out the flag, a question was asked: Did the administration have any information to share on the Mideast immigrants whom the Read the full article…
Backgrounder: History Is Against Business Tax
Members: The author is a former legislator and councilman now an instructor at the Keith Busse School of Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne. This is adapted from testimony he presented this week to the Fort Wayne City Council, the first in the state to take up the new option Read the full article…
The Outstater: Golfing with the Government
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE government-can-work-magic stories — a parks department repurposes an old municipal dump into a new golf course. Shazam! Happy citizens playing cheap golf, manicured greens and fairways instead of smelly sludge and trash. The problem, government being government, is that a new municipal golf course is run, well, like an old Read the full article…
Indiana at 200: Hoosier Played Key Role in Civil Rights
by Andrea Neal Chief Justice Earl Warren gets most of the credit, and rightly so, for the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing segregated schools. But were it not for a Hoosier — Justice Sherman Minton of Floyd County — the Brown case would not have even been before Read the full article…
The Outstater: The Combat Vietnam Veterans M.C.
“In an all-Navy message published Tuesday, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke said a three-pronged training approach will equip senior leaders and rank-and-file personnel for the changes (to open transgender service).” — military.com, Sept. 16, 2016 HAVING BREAKFAST one Sunday off U.S. 931 in Kokomo, reading about NFL players protesting Western Civilization, I Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The Homestead Tax Credit
by Martina Webster We should educate people on the tax-rate formula every chance we get. The more who understand the concept, the better the dialog on government spending. For starters, could giving up a tax exemption lower your taxes? Consider that it is time for the Legislature to designate something other than the Homestead Credit Read the full article…
