White Paper: The Missing Elements for a Strategic, Statewide Broadband Plan for Indiana
The foundation’s white papers are intended to make scholarly research on Indiana issues more widely available to policy analysts and researchers. White papers represent research in progress and are published to invite comment and discussion as preparation for their submission to academic journals and other professional publications. The authors are solely responsible for the content Read the full article…
Bohanon: Good Economics Requires Humility
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. What is the key to prosperity for the state of Indiana and its counties and towns? Economist Adam Smith argued all that is necessary to raise a society to the highest level of “opulence” is “peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice.” If these conditions prevail, then prosperity will Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (57): Indiana’s First Black Lawmaker
by Andrea Neal James Sidney Hinton, a Union Army veteran and Republican Party orator, was a 19th-century torchbearer for civil rights who became the first African American elected to the Indiana General Assembly. Hinton achieved this distinction during an era of sweeping social and political change – and at a time when blacks in the Read the full article…
Walker: What Is Crony Capitalism?
by Greg Walker What is crony capitalism? Why is this phrase used derogatorily of government schemes to raise capital for investment? Most would agree that governments should serve to raise funds for capital goods constructed to satisfy public interests — roads, bridges, sewers, etc. But the list is too short for some folks. What about Read the full article…
Not-so-Diverse Newsrooms
By Craig Ladwig Walking into a metropolitan newsroom in the early 1970s, you were struck by the size of the place — a full city block, or so it seemed. You could look up from the copy desk and see a hundred people at a hundred desks. It was a sociological Petri dish. In that Read the full article…
Doc Ippel: The Secrets of Pair-Bonding
by Bruce Ippel, M.D. Our republic is alive and well. You can tell that most recently by how many fireworks the LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered) subject is causing without crashing our democracy. But might it be crashing something else? As a doc of many years, I see the consequences of how one does what’s called pair-bonding. With Read the full article…
