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The Cult of Eco-Devo FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW I have searched for the perfect apothegm or story to describe Indiana’s economic-development policies — you know, the ones that build stadiums and mixed-use apartment complexes, renovate entertainment and shopping districts and such, all promising growth by shifting other peoples money around with tax-secured bonds, tax increment financing, Read the full article…
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Operating-Table Diversity MARQUETTE BASKETBALL COACH Al McGuire said it: “Winning is only important in war and surgery.” That would seem a good place to start in dismantling affirmative action both in the military and in medical schools. After a half century, if you think that affirmative action is still a good idea and you act on Read the full article…
Franke: Reflections on Voting
by MARK FRANKE Now that election day is a week into the past, almost an epoch in the American attention span, some retrospection is in order. I stayed true to my election day ritual. At 5:35 a.m. I followed a neighbor out of our addition to the precinct polling place to stand in line waiting Read the full article…
Goeglein: Stumbling Toward Utopia
By Tim Goeglein In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a book titled Utopia, which compared social and economic conditions in Europe with those of an ideal society on an imaginary island off the coast of the Americas. More wanted to imply that the perfect conditions on his fictional island could never exist, so he called Read the full article…
Schansberg: Calming Thoughts on the Election
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. I’m not a fan of either Trump or Harris — and whoever won, I had big worries about the country’s future, especially on government spending and debt. But I was thankful for a decisive outcome on Tuesday. I prayed for a large enough victory to avoid inflaming at least one set Read the full article…
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Mike Braun: The Expectations LOOKING OVER Governor-elect Mike Braun’s transition team and governing plan and you get a is-everyone-happy-with-the-state-flower vibe. There’s nothing impressive there yet, especially considering that the Republicans have had a super-majority for more than a dozen years now. We appear to have elected a team of accountants. We had hoped for astronauts. The Read the full article…
