Half Past the Month: Education Reform in Two Steps
THE EDUCATION PLANS headed for the General Assembly have so many political twists and bureaucratic turns that they cross the eyes. But it could be simple. Here’s reform in two steps, and it doesn’t matter how you pick your state superintendent of schools: Assign each student a share of next year’s education budget. Let them enroll Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (42): Indiana Got Into Boat Building Early
by Andrea Neal Drive along the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, and you can’t miss the 68-acre Jeffboat plant in which workers make the ships that transport so much of the nation’s grain, coal and chemicals to market. Due to our landlocked location, most Hoosiers don’t see Indiana as a leader in the shipbuilding economy, yet Read the full article…
King: Cassandra and the ‘Mature Minor’ Doctrine
by Stephen M. King, Ph.D. Your 17-year-old daughter, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, calmly but determinedly refuses chemotherapy. Her refusal is not based on religious beliefs; she simply does not want to ingest poison in her body, suffering the side effects and incurring further damage to her internal organs as a result of the treatment. What Read the full article…
The Great Divergence: Cop or Police Officer?
“Poor government leadership was the top problem in 2014.” — The Gallup Poll, Jan. 2, 2015 WHAT IF IT’S NOT about race? What if the police are only incidentally involved? What if something else is at stake, something more important? First, the police are not “cops.” That is a derision, and an 18th-century French one at Read the full article…
Bohanon: A Swedish Reform for a Hoosier Scholarship
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. Some of my favorite college students have been 21st Century Scholars. The popular state-financed college access program for low-income households enrolls students in junior high school. If the student maintains a decent high school grade-point average, stays out of trouble and participates in college-prep activities, he or she becomes eligible for Read the full article…
Ippel: Buying Your Car, Buying Your Healthcare
by Bruce Ippel, M.D. Having a car is very important for most Americans, but cars are technical and dangerous and expensive. What amazes me is how much more safe and comfortable and efficient cars have become in the last 30 years. Modern healthcare is also technical, dangerous and expensive. Medical and surgical care also has Read the full article…
