[A pending cert petition challenges a Bloomington zoning ordinance that requires a landlord to evict a derecognized fraternity] If you're in a particular zoning district of Bloomington near Indiana University, the zoning ordinance gives you a limited number of permitted uses, and an even more limited number of permitted residential uses. [read post]

Indeed, both in the West and in other political spaces, popular engagement might be understood to have become a refined form of populist technocracy (I have written about this in the University context, On the Practice of Town Hall Meetings in Shared Governance--Populist Technocracy and Engagement at Penn State; Practicing Mass Democracy at Penn State: The New Populist-Technocratic Model of University Governance, Socialization, Stakeholder Management and Benefits). [read post]

This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your national life; and reminds you that the Republic of America is now 76 years old. l am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. [read post]