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GIFFORD: Fund Indianapolis-area transit as an essential service
April 28, 2012
We’re redoubling our efforts to pass this plan in the 2013 legislative session.
MoreRon Gifford's blog from China
September 16, 2009
Indy Partnership CEO Ron Gifford is traveling with Gov. Mitch Daniels and a delegation of Hoosier business and community
leaders on a trip to Asia through Sept. 16. Gifford is blogging about his experiences as he works to bring
new jobs and investment to the economic development group's 10-county Indianapolis region. Bookmark this
page and check back for updates.
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: It's standing-room only at the seat of justice
November 12, 2007
Based on a couple of recent Indiana cases, it seems someone has parked a "No standing" zone around the Seventh Circuit Court
of Appeals. The first case involved Indiana Right to Life and its judicial candidate questionnaires. The group claimed two
provisions of the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct violated the First Amendment by preventing judicial candidates from answering
questions about topics such as abortion and other social issues. Although a federal district court judge agreed with the group's
arguments,...
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: Hey dude, the boss is parking in my space!
October 8, 2007
I'll admit it: Until recently, I thought "My Space" was simply where I stored "my stuff." My bad, it turns out. Just ask that
young staffer down the hall: The new place to see and be seen is MySpace, Facebook or one of the other online social communities.
This summer, MySpace announced it had more than 70 million unique users in the United States-meaning nearly one in four Americans
used the site, for a total of nearly 50 billion page...
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: Why one vote counts more than all the rest
May 14, 2007
Personally, I figured the baboonprint wallpaper justified the new law all by itself. Seriously, after the whole "jungle room"
decorating uproar at the governor's residence last year, wasn't it obvious that unregulated interior designers were a threat
to our very way of life? Your General Assembly sure thought so, and this session the Indiana House and Senate overwhelmingly
passed new licensing and certification standards for these decorators-including criminal penalties for impersonating a "registered
interior designer." Well, a funny thing happened...
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: (Log) rolling down the legislative river
August 14, 2006
I usually don't confuse C-SPAN with ESPN2. But as I flipped channels last month, there was so much logrolling going on in
Congress that I thought I'd stumbled upon the birling finals of the North American Lumberjack Games. Although, come to think
of it, most lumberjacks don't spout political inanities when they work. Guess that should have been my first clue. No, friends,
the logrolling we're talking about today is that time-honored legislative practice of taking two or more unrelated...
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: I'm just lounging by the side of the jury pool
July 10, 2006
I got something in the mail recently. Now, from my friends' overwrought reactions, you'd have thought it was an invitation
to go hunting with Dick Cheney. But no, to my colleagues, this was even more frightening. "This" was my summons for jury duty.
As for me, I thought it was kind of cool. OK, so it's not the prize patrol delivering my earlyretirement check. But the constitutional
romantic in me was moved by the fact that I'd been summoned to...
MoreTHERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: Judge not, lest ye have to fill out more surveys
May 8, 2006
When you voted in the primary May 2, and got to the judicial candidates, did you feel just a little ... oh, what's the right
word ... clueless? Uninformed? Ignorant about what any of these people actually thought about anything? Now some people might
have felt that way about many of the candidates. But not you. Being the well-informed voter that you are, you'd already done
your homework. Researched the issues. Asked the tough questions. And so you (and maybe...
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First, the Athenaeum is going to have to get past the hurdle with the Lockerbie residents and the agreement that the parcel would be residential. Second, and in my opinion, this prime piece of property should include parking, PLUS, a black box theater(s), some market rate and affordable artist housing and a plan to renovate and reconfigure the second story theater. I would negotiate to add the DeHaan property surface parking lot into the development mix, place a one story surface parking garage on the DeHaan lot on the street level (for the Dehaan tenants use during the daytime) and add a second story to the garage that would become an addition to the current second story theater and then change the direction of the theater by moving the stage across the alley and on top of the DeHaan lot parking. You can add all the stage elements that are currently missing from the Athenaeum stage to make it more attractive for use by Ballet, Opera and traveling productions. Plus, the theater changes would probably help solve some of the soundproofing issues. Alas,it does not seem to be a part of the strategic plan to conduct a study to determine best use of the property. Seems like the current plan is a quick and easy move that ignores the property best use/potential and any strategic property planning for the effect on future generations.
I recall that MSA's pilings are still in the ground and hard to remove. It’s not likely any proposal will include significant underground construction/parking because of this. Start adding 2 floors of retail, 8 floors of parking and 5-10 floors of possible hotel, and/or 10-20 floors of residential, and you are at 30 floors already with possible expansion of all the uses. But then again I could be wrong.
Accoriding to their website there is no deadline to the Do Not Call list. What is this article referring to??
On what planet are they entitled to this largesse from the stockholders? These people make multi-million dollar salaries: Pay for your own personal travel.
It matters because they're already paid enormously fat salaries: Pay for your own personal travel. Being "taxed on it" isn't a valid excuse--so what? They're still being gifted a raft of luxury perks from somebody else's money on top of an enormous, lavish salary.