There is a lot of talk about flat wages. It’s not just talk, it’s a fact. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Indiana Dep…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided an independent commission in Arizona may determine election district boundaries for congressional and …
Everyone has advice to give on how to get a job and what kind of job to get. Some advice is geographic: “Go West, young man.” Some is industry…
I do not share the enthusiasm and certainty of many good friends who believe mass transit is a necessary and vital part of our future cities. …
“There's a whole bunch of people in Indiana who have given up looking for jobs,” Guy Matins declared over breakfast.
What do you know about Jasper County in Northwest Indiana? If you drive often on Interstate 65, you may know you travel more miles in Jasper t…
In this spring of our discontent with our state government, my columns became unusually negative. Many readers chastised me for that. They bel…
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A few weeks ago some Hoosiers were worried about the image of our state because of the ill-advised, ineptly named Religious Freedom Restoratio…
A guy stops me on the street. “How’s the economy doing?” he asks.
The General Assembly has gone home; Hoosiers are breathing easier again. Although our legislators did a few sensible things, this session will…
Every now and then the “Let’s move” virus infects us. We love our house, its amenities and location, but we are susceptible to the moving bug.
Today, for the first time, I drove down a repaved section of my street. It’s only about 30 yards, but it had been a mess for several years.
My friend is selling her house, but she won’t get a reasonable price because of the junk yard maintained by her next-door neighbor. It’s a con…
It is easy to understand legislators in Indiana and other states taking steps against public higher education. Public colleges and universitie…
This column is NOT about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA. I wrote that column and threw it away. The arrogance of those in the …
Indiana will be safe for another year. We will retain our regressive social agenda as the General Assembly stays busy passing meaningless, div…
Horatio Hammer, of the law firm, Hammer and Tongs, enjoys the routine spectacle of business and economic expectations before the fact, and ana…
Data from the American Community Survey by the U.S. Bureau of the Census indicate that 5.5 million households or 4.8 percent of all American h…
Most communities entice businesses with subsidies or “incentives” to locate in their jurisdiction versus another. It’s seen as a necessary mea…
This is a true story. Only the names and the dialogue have been changed because of the elapsed time and my faulty memory.
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Last week’s column suggested the change in your county’s gross assessed value could be a good measure of local economic development. If you mi…
Once upon a time, in a land where we now live, citizens sought to improve their communities through something called “economic development.” T…
President Barack Obama came to Indianapolis to rouse support for his $60 billion to $80 billion program for financing community college studen…
The American economy is a mosaic of 381 metropolitan economies, which account for nearly 90 percent of the nation’s inflation-adjusted Gross D…
The National Rifle Association website does not report the size of the gun industry in the United States.
Today’s sermon, members of the choir, will be upon the twin topics of gambling and guns. Now, I know that people don’t like to be told how to …
With the Indiana General Assembly in session, the division of funds among Indiana’s 92 counties is once again before us. In recent discussions…
