Have you been to the Smithsonian? When our children were young, my mom took us all to Washington D.C. Several weeks before leaving she sat down with our children and gave them an assignment. They were to research the multitude…
Woe is me! The website Business Insider has decided Gary is one of the “most miserable” cities in the United States. The authors of the report do not claim to have ever visited the city in person, but they cite…
In 2010, Panera Bread launched a nonprofit called Panera Cares, a set of stores around the U.S. operated on a “pay-what-you-can basis.” The underlying assumption was that customers of means would pay more to support customers with less — or…
During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomics theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alc…
NASHVILLE, Ind. — On July 27, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made his infamous “Russia, if you’re listening …” appeal for dirt on Hillary Clinton. It commenced a two-year jigsaw puzzle type investigation that became President Trum…
Sometimes it takes something like a bolt of lightning to jolt us out of the complacency of our daily lives, forcing us to contemplate how others see us. I received such a jolt when the headline “Gary named the most…
Cathi Murray doesn’t want to see other towns suffer the same fate she says her’s has a result of unrestricted dumping of coal ash.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer brought The Silver Bullet Band to Bankers Life Fieldhouse for the Indianapolis stop of his “The Final Tour.”
GARY — The mother of Ke-Monte Cobbs — a teenage robbery suspect killed by a Gary police officer more than two years ago — is suing city officials and the officer who shot her son, claiming excessive force.
A new title company that launched earlier this year in Illinois has opened two Northwest Indiana locations.