September 2, 2009 RSS feed / Opinions & Letters

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Midwest Memo

Cue the leaves
by Alan Shultz
I pulled August off the calendar yesterday to reveal the month of September. That singular act seems to cue dramatic changes in the landscape from the rustle of leaves, to the angle of the sun and the morning dew covering. More...

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Capital Comments

School formula arithmetic By Larry DeBoer ldeboer@purdue.edu Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

The school funding formula was one of the sticking points in this year's state budget debate. To understand why, consider an example. Suppose the state has $20 million to divide between two school districts. Each district has 2,000 pupils. More...

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