Talk of school consolidations return at the state level
It’s hard to separate the sentimentality tied to your high school years from a fact-based discussion about school consolidation. But it needs...
A personal salute to Flag Day
It’s long past time for me to put a flagpole in the center of my front yard...
Our broken political system
In the middle of his most recent offering, the Indiana Policy Review book reviewer Mark Franke asked one of the most important...
The bulls in the china shop
Poor Eric Doden.
The Fort Wayne businessman has been hugely successful in large part because of his ability to...
Indiana legislative study committees are study in pointlessness (and aren’t free)
A recent prosecutorial oversight committee could be the poster child for why Indiana doesn’t need Legislative Interim Study Committees.
Summer bike hikes a relic of the past
Sitting in my home office I am greeted by a cool breeze coming through my open window...
Birch Bayh helped young women 50 years ago
The idea that a high school girls basketball team could draw as many fans as the boys team wasn’t common in early-1980s...
A feud atop Indiana government in a time of crisis
Becoming Indiana’s attorney general is not, historically, a path to the governorship, or any other higher office.
Don’t weaponize the 14th Amendment
Politics would be a lot simpler if one side could prevent the other from running for office.
As public university, IU board must follow Open Door Law
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
That seemed to be Indiana...