Leadership by What Works
My daughter’s ballet master opens every season with a little speech. She tells the young women that her academy recognizes two types of dancers: those who love to be seen dancing and those who love to dance. She wants only the latter. Leadership, if not dancing, is a critical issue in an election year. If Read the full article…
Super Bowl Costs: Will We Ever Know?
For immediate release (622 words). Will we ever know the cost of “the Game” to the taxpaying citizens of Indianapolis? We ask the question because, even the day after, we are getting confusing reports in the media about the dollars involved. A couple of weeks ago we got a statement from the Capital Improvement Board Read the full article…
Right-to-Work and the Super Bowl: A Better Case
For immediate release (590 words). As a political strategists in battle-wearing Wisconsin watching union protesters threaten to block the Super Bowl spotlight in my homestate of Indiana, I could not help but think there had to have been a better way to make the Right-to-Work argument. A maxim of war is that you, not your Read the full article…
Romney, Buffett and Tax Rates
For immediate release (659 words). Mitt Romney pays lower tax rates than a teacher? Warren Buffett pays less than his secretary? Really? It’s not meant to happen that way. Our federal income-tax code is supposed to be “progressive”: those with higher incomes should pay higher rates. How does this work? First, exempted income — through Read the full article…
The Last Ordinary American: A Eulogy
There was more, more, just inside the door In the store, in the store. There was more, much more, just inside the door In the corner grocery store. — Raffi, “The Corner Grocery Store Song” He was what we once called an ordinary American, a poor man’s capitalist growing up in an iconic corner grocery Read the full article…
Mass Transit: Time for a Reality Check
For release Feb. 1 and thereafter. (678 words) Merriam-Webster defines wishful thinking as “the attribution of reality to what one wishes to be true or the tenuous justification of what one wants to believe.” It’s an apt description for folks clamoring to spend hundreds of millions on a Central Indiana mass-transit plan. We can pump Read the full article…
