ATTN: Lake

It’s time to debunk the myth of the financial burden advertising public notices places on local government units.

A Soil Health Urban Farm Tour, which will feature three established urban farms and focus on soil health management, is scheduled for April 23 in Gary.

Now that a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans seem a lot more concerned about the national debt.

If you have a well-formed idea for a high growth and high potential company, you could get $20,000 in seed money to help make your concept a reality.

The chances are that folks learn most of what they know about economics in their late teens or 20s, in a high school or college class. It is also often the case that the person teaching that class learned most of their economics 30 or 40 years before that. So, it may easily come to pass that an adult nearing age 60 is attached to economic ideas that are really 75 years old. I am not the first to observe this. John Maynard Keynes noted that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

Some Indiana lawmakers seem intent on undermining government transparency, a linchpin of democracy. Specifically, bills to take public notices out of newspapers — where they belong — have been introduced year after year in the General Assembly. The majority of lawmakers have ultimately turned back these proposals. But that doesn’t stop their colleagues who would throw a veil over information that should be easy to find.