During the pandemic, school board meetings were under high scrutiny. When some boards refused to take public comment, outrage rose all the way to the Indiana statehouse and prompted new laws for stricter requirements for public comment at board meetings. This change sets school boards apart from other units of local government. In addition to the Open Door Law, that requires all units of local government to post meetings in advance and allow those meetings to be open to the p

If nuclear energy conjures images of Homer Simpson, Monty Burns, and vast vats of glowing green toxic waste, I want to talk. Thirty-plus...

A call to pray for local government officials in Vigo County and Terre Haute, IN The Vanguard is the foremost part of an advancing army...

Mitchell, Melanie. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.  New York, NY: Picador. 2019. Though well into its sixth year of...

A school board member has three jobs. First, we hire, fire, and manage the Superintendent. Second, we provide financial oversight, and...

Rowe, Ian. 2022. Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover their Pathway...

(This was submitted to the Terre Haute Tribune Star and the West Vigo Times February 7, 2023.) The hiring and management of the...

I am a wife, a mother, a public servant, a full-time employee, a volunteer, and a church member. I am supposed to eat healthy, exercise...

I recently had a conversation with a friend who works in higher education. We talked about enrollment rates and programs that are...

(This article ran as a Letter to the Editor in the Terre Haute Tribune Star on September 21, 2022.) Following the July 22 article citing...

Like many of the inner-city kids in Terre Haute, I attended Chauncey Rose Middle School. We often called it “Raunchy Toes,” an...

Vigilance is everything. When you are traveling for work, mind in a million meetings and exhausted from driving and plane hopping, it’s...

When I want to know more about a federal program, I do two things. I follow the money, and I play my favorite game: Six Degrees of LBJ....

When I was in graduate school, I worked part time in the bakery of my local grocery store. I did two tours of duty there, decorating...

Is Congress regular? It occassionally extrudes laws and leaves them in a pile for the bureaucracy or judiciary to implement, clean up, or...

Like the countless hoards of thought workers living through the pandemic times, my daily schedule is peppered with virtual meetings. This...

In a rural Indiana diner, I sat across the table from a seasoned, semi-retired government worker who posed the question, “what is left to...