Indiana at 200 (83): The Evansville Flood of 1937
by Andrea Neal A walk along Evansville’s Riverfront Esplanade – even on the most beautiful of days – evokes memories of the worst natural disaster in the history of the Ohio River: the Great Flood of 1937. The levee is the most visible reminder – built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect Read the full article…
The Outstater: Saving the World one Parking Space at a Time
by Craig Ladwig The summer doldrums, with so many officials out of officialdom, is a good time to put forward some pet public policy positions that, in my opinion, would save the world. One would abolish parking meters as we know them and the other government finance committees. They loosely follow the “Perlini Rule.” My Read the full article…
McGisms, Dry-Ice Funerals and Journalism’s Salvation
by Craig Ladwig You reach an age when you begin to repeat yourself, telling your best stories over again to the pained faces of friends and loved ones. Some of my stories are the exploits of a tobacco-chewing, free-range reporter who mentored me early in my career. He came to mind this week reading some Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Republicans in the Dock
by Craig Ladwig Eric Holcomb, Lt. Governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate, has yet another title, Explainer in Chief. And his first comment out of the box — “I want to provide high-quality, good government” — falls short of the times. Please know that with a supermajority in the legislature, the GOP economic record these last Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Minimum Wage, Minimum Thought
by Craig Ladwig “We’ve gotta protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen.” — Gov. William J. Le Ptomaine (Mel Brooks) in “Blazing Saddles” A section of your brain becomes inaccessible once you figure out how to make a living spending other people’s money on other people. It is nature’s way of protecting the virtuecrat from mortification. Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (82): Gov. McNutt and the New Deal
by Andrea Neal If Franklin Delano Roosevelt had not run for an unprecedented third term in 1940, there is a good possibility that Hoosier Paul Vories McNutt of Franklin would have become the 33rd President of the United States. One of the most powerful politicians Indiana has ever seen, McNutt had “astonishingly good looks,” according Read the full article…
