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Ind. Gov't. - Harold Holzer and the closed Lincoln Museum
The ILB has a number of entries on the closing of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne and the eventual decision to split the collection between the Fort Wayne library and the State Museum in Indianapolis. ("Other known suitors included...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 4, 2009 10:54 AM
Ind. Gov't. - Yet more on "State group appears victor for Lincoln Museum items"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 13th, one of the deciding factors in Indiana's success in retaining the contents of the Lincoln Museum was reportedly the ability of the Allen County library to digitize documents. More about that today in...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 26, 2008 01:56 PM
Ind. Gov't. - Even more on "State group appears victor for Lincoln Museum items"
Two long stories today on Indiana's success in retaining the Lincoln archives. Angela Mapes Turner and Niki Kelly report in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:Another chapter joined the lore surrounding the $20 million collection Friday, when Lincoln Financial Foundation, the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 13, 2008 09:56 AM
Ind. Gov't. - More on "State group appears victor for Lincoln Museum items" [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from this morning, Angela Mapes Turner and Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette posted this story a few minutes ago, that begins:The collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia long housed at Fort Wayne's shuttered Lincoln...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 12, 2008 12:36 PM
Ind. Gov't. - "State group appears victor for Lincoln Museum items"
Updating a long list of earlier ILB entries, Angela Mapes Turner of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting this morning:Announcements scheduled in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne today suggest that the defunct Lincoln Museum’s collection will remain in Indiana. The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 12, 2008 08:14 AM
Ind. Gov't. - More on: Indiana proposal among finalists for Lincoln Museum
Updating this entry from yesterday, today, today Angela Mapes Turner of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette writes that:The final round of contenders to receive the collection of the former Lincoln Museum includes an Indiana group, but the keepers of the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 17, 2008 07:28 AM
Ind. Gov't. - Indiana proposal among finalists for Lincoln Museum
Anne Gregory of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting at noon today:The Allen County Public Library issued a statement Wednesday morning saying that Indiana is among the finalists to become the permanent home of the Lincoln Financial Foundation’s collection...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 16, 2008 12:31 PM
Ind. Gov't. - More on: Competition fierce for Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum
In reporting about the closing of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, I wrote on March 9th: "Kentucky and especially Illinois make a big deal over Abraham Lincoln. The State of Indiana has done comparatively little. * * * The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 4, 2008 09:03 AM
Ind. Gov't. - Competition fierce for Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum
Updating these earlier ILB entries, Angela Mapes Turner reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:The local group fighting to keep Fort Wayne’s Lincoln Museum collection in Indiana faces powerhouse opposition from four major Washington institutions to relocate the material....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 25, 2008 02:26 PM
Ind. Gov't. - Still more on: Indiana, Land of Lincoln
Updating these ILB entries from March 9th and April 14th, occasional Indianapolis Star columnist Andrea Neal writes today with good news:Great news for Indiana Lincoln fans: State and Allen County leaders have put together a "compelling proposal" to keep the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 11, 2008 08:23 AM
Ind. Gov't. - More on: Indiana, Land of Lincoln
Updatng this ILB entry from March 9th, where I wrote: "Kentucky and especially Illinois make a big deal over Abraham Lincoln. The State of Indiana has done comparatively little. Now we read in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, in an...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 14, 2008 02:09 PM
Ind. Gov't. - Indiana, Land of Lincoln [Updated]
Columnist Bob Hill wrote in the Louisville Courier Journal Feb. 14th:Three states now rightly claim Lincoln: Kentucky, where he lived his first seven years; Indiana, where he grew up, taught himself to read and write, and lived until he was...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 9, 2008 11:19 AM
Ind. Courts - "Putting price on Allen County Courthouse art"
Amanda Iacone reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Much like the building around it, the fine artwork housed inside the Allen County Courthouse has increased in value even though it could never really be replaced in the event...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 6, 2007 06:30 PM
Law - A revisionist view of Robert Moses, the power broker and master builder
This entry is filed under "law" because the fact I remember most about Robert Moses, from Robert Caro's opus, The Power Broker, is near the beginning (i.e. only a few hundred pages into the massive tome), where Caro is described...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 31, 2007 04:24 PM
Law - Eminent domain laws - more bark than bite?
Here is an interesting story that was in the Boston Globe last Sunday, titled "Eminent domain is dead! (Long live eminent domain!)". Here is oe section from the lengthy article:But while virtually every state, including Massachusetts, is considering legislation to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 18, 2006 04:54 PM