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INDOT chief's changes altered contract decision: Insider alleges Nicol favored Kernan contributor
February 28, 2005
Former Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner J. Bryan Nicol changed official recommendations of INDOT's design
division, according to an INDOT source, a move that sent millions of dollars of work to major contributors to former Gov.
Joe Kernan's campaign. Two days after last fall's election, INDOT consultant services manager Jeffrey Clanton said he was
ordered by then-commissioner Nicol to make a number of changes to a July 29, 2004, selection list. On seven of the 24 different
projects on the...
MoreCompanies abuse certification to nab contracts: Critics wonder if they truly are 'disadvantaged'
February 21, 2005
Indiana companies are playing the system to get millions of dollars in federal highway funds by posing as and receiving state
certification as economically disadvantaged, minority or women-owned businesses. Under federal law, a prime contractor bidding
on a federally funded project has to subcontract a certain percentage to businesses that are certified by the state as disadvantaged.
The idea is to ensure that these companies have an equal opportunity to become successful. Files at the State Department of
Administration show...
MoreINDOT spends millions with little oversight: Critics charge state's failure leads to poor work
February 14, 2005
More than half of the $8 billion spent by the Indiana Department of Transportation on construction over the last decade went
to only 10 construction companies. The same is true of the hundreds of millions spent on consulting. Ten design and engineering
firms got 56 percent of all of the money contracted by INDOT-more than $155 million over the last 12 years. The large sums
of money concentrated in a relatively small number of recipients has raised alarms for some...
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.