LADWIG: The last ordinary American: a eulogy
If socialism wasn’t good, we argued lamely, then wealth at least was bad—or not as fair or as kind as government could make it.
Craig Ladwig / Special to IBJ
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LADWIG: When government answers look good …
It completed the tunnels but didn’t have the money for the trains.
LADWIG: Indiana run ‘like a business’? Not quite
Every time this man applied that advice to his particular corner of government, “All hell broke loose.”
LADWIG: Lying is another narrative in reality politics
I’m looking hard at the public record if not the heavens, trying not to be cynical.
LADWIG: Court puts property rights in the dock
For the members of this majority, property interests may rise to the level of “rights” but never absolutes.
LADWIG: Chamber scores questionably on economy
We are left with the sobering realization that there is no lobby for free-market economics at the Statehouse.
LADWIG: Bring the spirit of Lincoln back to Indiana
Is that our position? Stand there confident that the inscrutable workings of a free market will restore our failing towns? Pretty much.
LAGWIG: Here’s a pol who hires honestly and pays taxes
The firefighter and police unions set up pickets outside his home. He was re-elected in no small part as a result of his training as a Marine artillery officer.
LADWIG: Chambers of commerce have lost their way
At best, many Indiana chambers see themselves as middlemen smoothing the government licensing and regulatory processes.
LADWIG: Democracy, complex government don’t mix
It is reasonable to believe … that Custer thought he was running to ground a relatively small party of warriors when in fact he was about to be surrounded by what may have been three times as many.
LADWIG: The last thing newspapers need is a subsidy
You should know that publishers of the smaller community newspapers, specialty papers and media systems throughout the nation were outperforming the big shots until the recession, their closeness to their readerships saving them from the hubris of advocacy.
LADWIG: Republican ‘change’ disappoints in Indiana
Establishment Republicans are in danger of becoming as addicted to government aid as countless other individuals and interest groups.
LADWIG: It’s time to talk about the clocks—again
Most troubling, though, considering the depressed economy, is Gaski’s discrediting of the state chamber, which claimed that the time change would serve the ‘convenience of commerce.’
LADWIG: Local property rights, Zimbabwe style
Is it hyperbolic to relate anti-colonialism in the African Corn Belt to the machinations of the Capital Improvement Board, the Metropolitan Development Commission or the Indianapolis mayor’s office?
LADWIG: Public-sector unions burden taxpayers
Our ruin absent heroic stances at the Statehouse and the Governor’s Office, is not only politically likely but mathematically certain.