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Some fear exit opens door for patronage:
July 23, 2007
One improvement BAA made in Indianapolis never got much attention: It tried to weed out patronage jobs. Former airport board
member Gordon St. Angelo thought it was one of the most significant benefits of taking airport management out of municipal
hands. "I think a major improvement was the streamlining of what had been a semi-patronage type of program," St. Angelo said,
referring to BAA's eliminating some nonproductive employees and practices. Municipal agencies such as airports' becoming dumping
grounds for politicians'...
MoreIvy Tech: new community college with long history:
April 23, 2007
Indiana was on the verge of creating a statewide community college system 40 years ago, but Hoosier politics and university
turf wars got in the way-stomping a seed that in recent years has flourished in other states as a sort of economic tree of
life. Community colleges increasingly are called on to train new workers and retrain existing ones for a high-tech economy.
But the thinking back in the 1960s, said then-freshman legislator John Mutz, was that a community college...
MoreDeregulation creates telecom free-for-all:
January 1, 2007
Lawmakers last spring made it easier for AT&T, Verizon and big phone companies to get into the video business now ruled by
cable TV operators. By summer, video providers were able to obtain a single, statewide video franchise instead of having to
negotiate agreements with each municipality they serve. Opponents said reform was all about helping AT&T, the state's largest
phone provider and one of the most powerful lobbying and campaign contributors. AT&T didn't want to have to negotiate individual...
MoreDaniels' major moves raise eyebrows:
January 1, 2007
Gov. Mitch Daniels created a firestorm in 2006 with his solution: Privatize the Indiana Toll Road. The 75-year lease of the
175-mile road in northern Indiana, to an Australian-Spanish consortium, closed June 29. The deal that gave the state a $3.8
billion check to finance other highway projects under Daniels' Major Moves program not only lives on in controversy, but also
could be the defining legacy of his administration. Daniels recently proposed privatizing the Indiana Lottery. And his team
already...
MoreATA struggles to survive:
December 26, 2005
ATA Airlines in 2005 was gutted into a shell of its former glory. On the upside, it ended the year with a $100 commitment
from New York finance firm MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners. That could set the stage for the company to emerge
from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, 16 months after it filed. But the price of restructuring was high for Indianapolis.
The company, which just a year ago was the busiest carrier at Indianapolis International Airport, will discontinue...
MoreNEWSMAKER Outspoken White takes charge at IPS:
December 26, 2005
NEWSMAKER Outspoken White takes charge at IPS Eugene White ruffled more than a few feathers early this year when he publicly
called Gov. Mitch Daniels "a liar." White, then the superintendent of Washington Township schools, didn't care for Daniels'
claim that the state's school administrators cared more about building projects than education. Like him or not, White doesn't
mince words. He has a stand-up style that this summer helped him land the job of superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools.
The...
MoreState firms pioneers in boosting electric efficiency:
August 15, 2005
Indiana already has a number of firms working on technology aimed at boosting energy efficiency and capacity. Early this month,
Indianapolis-based Trexco LLC said the U.S. Patent Office awarded it two dozen patents for a cooling system it has developed
for large electrical transformers, such as those used at utility substations. The "transformer extender" is designed to stretch
the capacity and lifespan of the transformers, which typically cost $2 million to $5 million and are the size of a Mack...
MoreGivebacks extended:
May 30, 2005
ATA Holdings Corp. appears to have averted another financial crisis, reaching a tentative agreement with its pilots last week
to extend concessions another four months. The Indianapolis airline warned in previous court filings that it was "at the risk
of shutdown and liquidation" if U.S. Bankruptcy Court failed to mandate an extension of concessions. Whether the warning was
posturing-or a sign of an even more precarious financial situation-is hard to decipher amid ATA's Chapter 11 reorganization.
The proposed pact with...
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.