Hicks Commentary: Previewing the Long-Term Effects of Tariffs
This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary blog. By Michael Hicks May 25, 2025 Whenever President Trump’s tariff fiasco comes to an end, we will turn attention to the lasting impacts. It is not a “...”
Pfaff Commentary: A math teacher reflects on the journey from the classroom to the statehouse
By Rep. Tonya Pfaff, D-Terre Haute May 27, 2025 After 32 years in the classroom, I’m officially retiring from teaching high school math. It’s a bittersweet goodbye to a profession I have loved since the day I first picked up a piece of chalk in 1991 to teach Algebra 1. Back t “...”
Leppert Commentary: When knowledge is the enemy, greatness is impossible
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 28, 2025 In the 1983 classic film, “Trading Places,” Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine are victims of a scientific experiment that is thrust upon them by the elite bosses of a Philadelphia commodities brokerage. Winthorpe i “...”
Krull Commentary: Trump, Harvard and the pettiness of power
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 26, 2025 More than a half-century ago, the German and American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt conjured up a penetrating phrase. After attending the war crimes trial of A “...”
Kennedy Commentary: The Real Christians
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 26, 2025 I grew up in Anderson, Indiana, in one of a handful of Jewish families then living in that small town. Anti-Semitic incidents were no “...”
Krull Commentary: Jim Irsay, down the road
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 23, 2025 Longtime Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay could poke fun at himself. Years ago, I attended a special preview of the long, unspooled typescript of Jack Kerouac’s “O “...”
Krull Commentary: Biden, Trump and the complicated question of presidential health
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 21, 2025 Former President Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer. Biden’s cancer is at stage four. Those of us who have lost loved ones to cancer know stage four designation me “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Protection Of Religion?
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 21, 2025 Well well well…I think the veil has just come off the Indiana GOP’s pious concern for (certain) religious beliefs. Indiana media “...”
Krull Commentary: This should be for adults only
This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com May 19, 2025 Here’s a serious question. Why is it so difficult to find functioning grownups to serve in leadership positions? In place after place, we see leaders blubbering over p “...”
Leppert Commentary: Braun fails Indiana’s hungry, and the buck stops somewhere else
By Michael Leppert The Indiana Citizen May 21, 2025 Bureaucracy is a word that is often used as an excuse. It is the bogeyman that serves as the source of mysterious and insurmountable odds preventing government from delivering the obvious good and right things to its people. Why “...”