Bohanon: Must Politics Be Nasty? (Part III)
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. My father was actively involved in two congressional campaigns. He supported the Republican candidates for Congress in the 2nd Congressional district in Oklahoma in 1964 and 1966. He’d give me a dime for every bumper sticker I could persuade a neighbor to put on their car for the GOP standard bearer. Read the full article…
Quick Hit: The Star Fails Cursive
The Indianapolis Star editorial board has dismissed as a “misplaced legislative priority” Sen. Jean Leising’s effort to require cursive writing instruction in Indiana schools. The Star wondered why time would be spent on such a trivial matter “in a state where the workforce ranks 42nd in the nation in educational attainment.” Perhaps if the Star Read the full article…
Quick Hit: Better Ideas than Raising the Minimum Wage
Here are some ways to separate people by motive, knowledge and creativity on the issue of the minimum wage: Offer to reduce or eliminate the 15.3 percent FICA taxes on every dollar of income earned by the working poor (no exemptions/no deductions like the “income tax” gets); Offer wage subsidies for low-paid heads of household Read the full article…
Quick Hit: We’ve Forgotten What Exercised Mr. Revere
The American War of Independence was fought “by British Americans against a German King for British ideals.” — Lady Astor Other than the fact that the first American settlements wouldn’t have survived had they not abandoned that picture-perfect “sharing” Thanksgiving for a less dramatic year-round market-based economy, America’s defining historical moment may be Paul Revere’s Read the full article…
Quick Hit: ‘What’s the Purpose of Education, Really?’
The State Board of Education is knee-deep in a strategic-planning process intended to better define the state’s vision for Indiana schools. It should come as no surprise that board members disagree on the most basic of questions: What is the purpose of K-12 education? It is an essential question that must be answered before, not Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (17): The Harmonists near Evansville
by Andrea Neal For one shining moment in the early 19th century, a group called the Harmonists achieved utopia on the Wabash River. Two hundred years later, their experiment continues to inspire visitors to New Harmony, Indiana. Founded in 1814 by 800 German Pietists and carefully ordered by their leader George Rapp, the town of Read the full article…
