Cummins: Free the Teachers!
“(Gov. Eric) Holcomb supports raising the average Hoosier teacher salary from $56,600 to $60,000 annually. While teaching is a calling and not a career defined simply by pay, our educators deserve a respectable wage. If school systems can’t attract and retain qualified teachers, students suffer.” — Terre Haute Tribune Star editorial, Jan. 25, 2023 By Maj. Ryan Read the full article…
Morris: The ‘Packsaddle Librarians’
by Leo Morris They were known by various names – the book women, the book ladies, the packsaddle librarians. From 1935 to 1943, they rode through the hills of Depression-era Appalachia, hundreds of miles a week on difficult trails through sometimes awful weather, circulating a few books, magazines and greatly outdated newspapers to people living Read the full article…
Timmons: The Debt Number Won’t Fit in This Headline
By Tim TimmonsLast week we hit a financial landmark. We maxed out our credit card. Oh, the uppity ups in the government didn’t call it that. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained that the U.S. reached its debt limit, a plain and simple way of saying, well, we maxed out the credit card. Except we didn’t. Read the full article…
The Outstater
‘We the People’ Pays Well “Show me a man who gets rich by being a politician, and I will show you a crook.” — Harry S Truman HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED why so many congressmen, Republican and Democrat, are rich? Of course you have, and your best guess, depending on your disposition, is that they are either Read the full article…
The McGowans: IU and “the Magna Charta Universitatum”
by Richard J. McGowan and Tyler R. McGowan What’s to become of American universities, including Indiana University? If we look across the pond, i.e., the Atlantic, we can see a reaffirmation of traditional ideas on what a university should be. Those ideas are rooted in history. The University of Bologna, the oldest university in the Western world, Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Pattern of Boondoggling VERONIQUE de RUGY, an economist for the Mercatus Center, famously said that if you miss your budget estimates 20 percent of the time you are an incompetent but if you miss them 80 percent of the time you are a liar. What would be said about the cost of a project in Read the full article…
