Half Past the Month: Indiana’s Elizabethan EcoDevo
by CRAIG LADWIG Earlier this month a newspaper in my hometown ran one of those predictably boosterish “we can do it” articles on the local economy. This one, though, was so wrong-headed on such an important subject at such a critical moment that it requires a challenge. The news was that economic help was on its Read the full article…
KEATING: A Reluctance to Punch that Time Clock
by MARYANN O. KEATING, PH.D. To paraphrase champion prize fighter emeritus, Mohammed Ali, workers in U.S. labor markets tend to be mobile, agile and hostile. Gone are the days when a family’s primary wage earner grits his or her teeth and endures whatever it takes to bring home the bacon. The Indiana Business Research Center Read the full article…
The Outstater: The IndyStar Fell with Dick Lugar
by CRAIG LADWIG Dick Lugar wasn’t the only political legend to fall tonight. The Indianapolis Star, once the guardian of the state political discussion, went supine, flopped right over on its back. The newspaper’s featured article three days before the election was “Sen. Richard Lugar Issues Urgent Call for Help in Election.” The editors in Read the full article…
BOHANON: This College Engages Students in Work Experience
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. I have just finished my 32nd year teaching economics at Ball State University. Thirty or even 20 years ago I enthusiastically advised bright undergraduate students to pursue teaching and research careers in higher education. Today I am much less enthusiastic. Part of this traces to issues in the economics profession: Economists Read the full article…
BROWN: A Primer on Indiana Local Government
“Lots of choc’lates for me to eat, Lots of coal makin’ lots of ‘eat. Warm face, warm ‘ands, warm feet, Wouldn’t it be loverly?” — Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady by Liz Brown We often discuss the national political system in terms of checks and balances. These same principles guide our local governmental units, Read the full article…
Letters to the Editors: Hooray for the New Newsroom Sweatshops
The big bylines in the newsroom are lamenting the changes in journalism. They say it’s becoming a sweatshop. That’s progress, I say. Causing concern is a technique called “aggregation,” the high-speed, deadline collection of multiple Internet stories on a single topic. The idea is to give a more demanding readership the benefit of “trending,” i.e., Read the full article…
