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Half Past the Month: Indiana’s Elizabethan EcoDevo
by CRAIG LADWIG Earlier this month a newspaper in my hometown ran one of those predictably boosterish “we can do it” articles on the local economy. This one, though, was so wrong-headed on such an important subject at such a critical moment that it requires a challenge. The news was that economic help was on its…
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KEATING: A Reluctance to Punch that Time Clock
by MARYANN O. KEATING, PH.D. To paraphrase champion prize fighter emeritus, Mohammed Ali, workers in U.S. labor markets tend to be mobile, agile and hostile. Gone are the days when a family’s primary wage earner grits his or her teeth and endures whatever it takes to bring home the bacon. The Indiana Business Research Center…
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The Outstater: The IndyStar Fell with Dick Lugar
by CRAIG LADWIG Dick Lugar wasn’t the only political legend to fall tonight. The Indianapolis Star, once the guardian of the state political discussion, went supine, flopped right over on its back. The newspaper’s featured article three days before the election was “Sen. Richard Lugar Issues Urgent Call for Help in Election.” The editors in…