Letter: Bohanon and Curott stir political pot
What to B&C may be profligate spending on widely-distributed local projects is more appropriately seen as an exercise in distributing the benefits broadly, if imperfectly, among future taxpayers.
Morton Marcus
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Morton Marcus; Who gains and who loses from the forthcoming reapportionment?
While Hamilton and Marion counties are the biggest winners, Madison, Wayne, Delaware, Grant and Lake will have less representation and will be the biggest losers.
Morton Marcus: No, logging is not a good way to manage our forests
In the 21st century, it’s time to reconsider the uses of our land as a way of attracting and retaining people, rather than industries.
Morton Marcus: Fixing problems requires finding common ground
What does it take to make progress? Unclench the jaws and remove the fangs of the contesting opponents; play the harp and silence the trumpets.
Morton Marcus: Indiana’s forests are well worth protecting
Woodlands still account for 22 percent of Indiana’s land area, an asset of unmeasured value.
Morton Marcus: Friendly tax climate doesn’t guarantee robust growth
But does a relationship exist between a state’s tax-climate ranking and its actual economic growth as measured by gross domestic product?
GUY & MARCUS: Where you stand determines if you sit
Not providing seats denies jobs to how many thousands? What portion of those on disability payments are out of the workforce because employers fail to provide opportunities to sit on the job? We do not know.
MARCUS: Catching up is hard to do
Multinational companies and foreign trade are not evil forces. Rather, states and cities need to recognize the economic perils any community can face almost anytime as private companies make changes.
MARCUS: Governor: Don’t forget our smaller communities
Our state has good places the size of Evansville, South Bend and Muncie on down to Hartford City, Portland and Sullivan. These places could offer a quality of life deemed acceptable by our elite state economic developers if a program of incentives removed the blemishes caused by stagnation and decline.
MARCUS: It would have been different had Noah been a Hoosier
The new movie about Noah and his ark, combined with the antics of the General Assembly, led me to setting the fabled story here in the Hoosier state.
MARCUS: Rising prosperity still an elusive aspiration
Sometimes it seems our political leaders know only four-letter words like jobs. They often precede this with another four letter word: good.
MARCUS: Not the time to emphasize our negatives
What is the number one complaint of Hoosier employers? The labor force is outdated. We do not have enough workers with the training and experience to compete with other states and nations.
MARCUS: Politicians have little influence over jobs
Governors and mayors normally talk as if they are personally responsible for bringing jobs to their states and communities. This is nonsense.
MARCUS: United funding for the arts in Indiana
A good friend has come up with a good idea. I know it is a good idea because, when he presented it to me and another friend, both of us were skeptical. Such is the inevitable fate of good ideas among friends.
MARCUS: Lopsided population shift raises alarms
No one pays attention to a sentence buried in the middle of a recent news story out of Indiana University.
MARCUS: A proposal to put young people to work
The Rockefeller Foundation has called for ideas that address the nation’s youth unemployment situation. Here are mine:
MARCUS: Candidates silent on grave projections
In the decade of the Great Depression, the 1930s, the population of Indiana grew 5.8 percent. Later, in the 1970s, a decade of great economic turmoil, the state’s population advanced 5.7 percent. The 1980s saw a strong recession and a subsequent restructuring of American business; Indiana’s population grew a mere 1 percent.
MARCUS: Labor’s vast potential going to waste
Today, unions are being peeled so that they become smaller.
MARCUS: Vouchers are fine, but about those details…
Without standards of performance, taxpayers sign blank checks while children are set up for future failures.
MARCUS: Let’s do away with child labor laws, too
Many parents would joyfully let their 14-year-olds become roofers, if it meant more money for meth.