Hicks Commentary: Time to Fix Economic Development Policy
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks April 27, 2025 Media reports identified significant accounting problems at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC). In “...”
Kennedy Commentary: NO, NO, NO
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy April 27, 2025 The Trump Administration may be the pre-eminent example of lunacy in government, but the current super-majority in Indiana’s legi “...”
Kennedy Commentary: A Battle Plan
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy April 25, 2025 Twice in the month of April, thousands of people turned out to protest the Trump coup. Here in Red Indiana, thousands gathered on A “...”
Krull Commentary: Hiding in an imagined past
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By John Krull The Indiana Citizen April 25, 2025 Watching a state’s leaders decide to race backward would be fascinating if the consequences for their foolishness weren’t so likely to be devastating to so many peo “...”
Leppert Commentary: Tariff madness is hanging Indiana, no matter how Braun spins it
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen April 23, 2025 I have often wondered where the phrase “spinning a yarn” came from, and what differentiates the descriptive from the blunter, “making stuff up.” This week’s absurd spin, courtesy of Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, finally i “...”
Krull Commentary: The strength to be kind
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 21, 2025 When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the bishop of Rome in 2013, no one knew that his papacy would be blessedly out of pace with that of much of the world. Pope Francis s “...”
Hicks Commentary: The Unanticipated Effects of SB1
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks April 20, 2025 Gov. Mike Braun has signed the contentious Senate Bill 1 into law. This legislation was neither as good, nor as bad, “...”
Krull Commentary: Now, deportations have a face
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com April 17, 2025 It’s easier, so much easier, to hate and fear people we don’t know. Once they have faces, once we see that others are human beings with hopes and pains similar to “...”
Leppert Commentary: Nobody is safe in America, not from America, not anymore
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen April 16, 2025 “Bridge of Spies” is a 2015 movie about an insurance attorney, James Donovan, who finds himself representing a Soviet spy, Rudolph Abel, in a highly publicized espionage trial in 1957. Yes, it’s directed by Steve “...”
Hicks Commentary: The Stupidest of Policies
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks April 13, 2025 The GOP is vacillating between contradictory claims that President Trump’s tariffs are either negotiating tactics “...”