KENNEDY: Society’s complexity requires ever more expertise
It’s election season, and as I’ve watched the ads, debates and speeches—it’s occurred to me that the complexity of our society and world may be outstripping our ability to govern ourselves.
Sheila Suess Kennedy
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KENNEDY: Threshhold questions for higher education
Colleges and universities that are genuinely engaged in education must have standards.
KENNEDY: Tears at a wedding that should have been
Although it was otherwise indistinguishable from other Christian wedding ceremonies I’ve attended, my friend and his life partner walked out of church still strangers in the eyes of the law.
KENNEDY: Here’s a revenue enhancement for you
We should decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana, and focus on treatment and prevention for those with genuine addictions.
KENNEDY: Google is making islands of all of us
What did I learn on my summer vacation? One thing that immediately struck me was how homogenized citizens from Western industrialized countries have become—how much we all look and dress alike.
KENNEDY: TIFs have gone from good idea to bad
The Ballard administration is proposing to turn large swatches of the urban core into TIFs, robbing school districts and libraries of desperately needed revenue.
KENNEDY: A regulatory no-brainer could save lives
Cell phone users in the United States can’t choose to have radio on our phones because, when the ability to download first threatened the music industry’s business model, the carriers thought including broadcast radio would undermine their ability to sell music packages.
KENNEDY: We need to get our civics game on
Right now, Americans are deeply involved in one of our periodic debates about government spending and the budget deficit. Important as that is, I am more concerned about our civic deficit—the widespread lack of basic constitutional literacy.
KENNEDY: Legislature’s bottom line is political
Many Indiana citizens have been hit hard by the recession, and the General Assembly has reacted by kicking them while they’re down.
KENNEDY: Death (penalty) and taxes aren’t certainties after all
Everyone, it seems, wants government to cost less—until someone suggests cuts to our particular sacred cows.
KENNEDY: About those intended and unintended consequences …
Even if one believes that same-sex marriages are a “problem,” enacting House Joint Resolution 6 will change nothing.