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Franke: Baseball Is Back
by Mark Franke I write this on opening day for my local team, the Fort Wayne TinCaps. This being the upper Midwest, the weather report calls for rain to move in just in time for the first pitch. While I love baseball, sitting in 40-degree, rainy weather for an April night game puts that love…
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The Outstater
Statehouse Eyes Turn to Taxes “Read my lips.” — George H.W. Bush, 1988 GOP Convention HEARING HINTS from the Statehouse floor about details of a property tax “cut,” we are reminded of the “Bohanan Rule” named after the Ball State University economist Cecil Bohanon who first explained it to us. It says that taxes can be cut for…
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The Outstater
The Not-So-Great Gatsby THIS WEEK MARKS the 100th anniversary of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is an occasion, I read in the New York Times, to speculate on Jay Gatsby’s identity, his swarthiness. Was he a member of one oppressed minority or another, or, if not, a literary representation of the ways that race…