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Contracting Out Lottery Would Bring Risk With Reward
Indiana Writers Group column for Feb. 7 and thereafter 730 words By Andrea Neal “A lottery is a taxation — upon all the fools in creation,” said the 18th century English playwright Henry Fielding. “And heaven be praised, it is easily raised, credulity’s always in fashion.” Almost 300 years later, Fielding’s criticism holds true.…
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Xenophobia and Indiana Privatization
Indiana Writers Group column for Jan. 31 and thereafter 699 words by T. Norman Van Cott Dictionaries define xenophobia as fear or hatred of things strange and foreign, including people. In the economic realm, xenophobia manifests itself in animosity toward imports and immigrants. Foreign investors are two-headed monsters for economic xenophobes. Not only are…
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Indiana Has Enough Slot Machines Already
Indiana Writers Group column for Jan. 24 and thereafter 730 words By Andrea Neal FRENCH LICK, Ind. — When I walked on to the gaming floor at French Lick – my first time ever in a casino – I was struck immediately by the number of slot machines. There were hundreds of them, in all…