Opinion

“In a democratic republic, the organs of state are separate and may even at times work at cross-purposes, with one acting as a balance for the other. In an autocracy, these organs must be deprived of their autonomy …”

Technologies and opportunities abound to add clean electric power to our communities and fuel growth in our economy. Indiana is seeing a birth of new industry such as battery manufacturing with more than $6 billion investment and 2,800 jobs created by Stellantis and Samsung SDI in Kokomo, solar panel manufacturing in Jeffersonville and Indianapolis bringing more than 1,400 jobs, EV assembly in Princeton Indiana by Toyota will bring $1.4 billion in investment and there is a growth in demand for datacenters that will bring billions more of investment to our state.

Let’s start with a confession.

Many economic development leaders and elected officials think of their state or city like it’s a business.

BeijingWest Industries (BWI) Indiana, a China-owned company, is closing its Greenfield business after operating there since only 2019. What do the Hancock County Council, Hancock Economic Development Corporation, and Greenfield Mayor Guy Titus think about this?

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A quiet announcement was followed with the scare headlines from television station websites — “Indiana has lost 345,700 acres of farmland, mostly to development.”

I am not a Swiftie. I can’t name a single song by Taylor Swift besides “Shake It Off.” But a recent Newsweek column about her life choices has me infuriated.

On the day the U.S. Supreme Court greatly expanded the powers of America’s chief executive, both the chief justice and the president of the United States invoked the name of George Washington.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.