Everyone will have a favorite piece of legislation to root for or against this session of the Indiana General Assembly, so there is a chance some of the lesser bills will escape attention.Here are three I’ll be monitoring.House Bill 1013, which would designate the mastodon as the state ...
Over the past few months, family illness occasioned some marathon sessions of Hallmark movie watching. Since October, their programming has been an endless stream of Christmas movies, often casting the same actors in more or less contemporary movies.Hallmark audiences know what they want and ...
Cartoonists again have represented the new year of 2022 as a baby in diapers. More appropriately, 2022 peeks in cautiously, wearing a mask, standing in a circle with a 12-foot diameter, and a certificate of vaccination in hand.The old year, 2021, is seen wheezing, bedraggled and heading toward ...
After 2020, we could not imagine 2021 extending the reality of COVID’s evolutionary attack on humanity. But it happened.The data are not in for 2021 in full, but we have some indications of the impact nationwide. Normally, we expect economic development will involve more people to generate ...
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced the distribution of roughly a half-billion dollars for READI Grant proposals. To many readers, this will seem like governmental inside baseball, or just another big spending program. It is not, at least not yet. The plain fact is that clusters of counties ...
This can be a frantic time around the holidays, hustling to complete projects before the end of the year, and planning for the coming year. And while this is a great time to review your HR policies and employee handbooks, that project often gets put on the back burner. So, with the vigor of a ...
The producer price index for final demand rose 0.8% in November, after increasing 0.6% in each of the three previous months. The acceleration in inflation came largely from higher prices for energy goods and for transportation and warehousing services. On a year-ago basis the PPI for final ...
It is economic forecasting season, so universities and consulting groups are offering their projections for 2022. I did so this week, continuing work from Ball State University that started a half-century ago. Over the last 50 years, a dozen or so Ball State economists have authored economic ...
