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MACALLISTER: Hooray for underrated lawmakers
March 30, 2013
P.E. MacAllister / Special to IBJAs the end of the annual meeting of our General Assembly draws nigh, it is not inappropriate to once again view both the legislation
considered and the general health and well-being of the system itself as it works in the Great Hoosier Heartland.
MoreMYERS: No time to rest on our ample laurels
March 30, 2013
Woodrow Myers / Special to IBJIndianapolis is a long way from reaching its potential. Yes, we have advantages with cost of living (compared to both coasts),
and great professional sports franchises and an array of quality cultural institutions like the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and many more.
MoreDANIELS: Leading in health care innovation
March 30, 2013
Deborah DanielsHoosiers are often thought of as resistant to change (daylight-saving time, anyone?).
MoreSHEPARD: Speedway promotion is a smart move
March 30, 2013
Randall Shepard / Special to IBJFresh analysis released last month on the economic impact of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the satellite industries
attracted by its location in Indiana make it clear the General Assembly is on the right track in moving legislation to bolster
the track and the jobs it helps create.
MoreSTYRING: Workers will flood health exchanges
March 30, 2013
Bill Styring / Special to IBJThe local business guys and gals I talk to watch the coming full implementation of Obamacare with a sense of angst.
MoreSWAYZE: Obamacare is more mess than cure
March 30, 2013
Sue Swayze / Special to IBJOne-sixth of our economy has a big question mark around it. It’s OK to call “it” Obamacare now, but we still
don’t know what it is.
MoreVAUGHN: Expanding Medicaid would benefit all
March 30, 2013
Julia Vaughn / Special to IBJIn these pages last fall, I complained about gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence playing politics with the implementation of
federal health reform. Unfortunately, now that he’s been elected governor, the game-playing continues and uninsured
Hoosiers continue to be pawns in Pence’s game with federal officials.
MoreTAFT: Education map shows Indy holds its own
March 30, 2013
Bill Taft / Special to IBJA recent Ball State University study showed a growing movement of Marion County residents to Hamilton County and triggered
a series of columns pinning a lot of the blame on poor-quality city schools.
MoreODLE: Gov. Pence, please keep my money
March 2, 2013
Samuel L. Odle / Special to IBJMost days I wish the government would take less of my money and let me use it to save, invest, donate or just spend frivolously.
I figure I earned this money, it’s mine and I deserve to keep it, right?
MoreSIMPSON: 'Our hopes and dreams are bound together'
March 2, 2013
Vi Simpson / Special to IBJDaily, I see politicians arguing, reciting their talking points, without facts. I hear political pundits repeating those talking
points, urging on the political rhetoric.
MoreMADISON: Tax-cut promises make cheap politics
March 2, 2013
James H. Madison / Special to IBJPromising to cut taxes is not political leadership. It’s cheap and easy.
MoreLEIGHTY: Forgo the tax cut and finish I-69
March 2, 2013
Hilary Leighty / Special to IBJArguably one of the most passionate and polarizing debates in the General Assembly this session is the allocation of the transportation
budget. Gov. Mike Pence and many legislators agree that money should be spent on repairing deteriorating roads and constructing
new highways.
MoreSADLER: Put a justice complex on the docket
March 2, 2013
Doris Anne Sadler / Special to IBJSomething important is missing on planning desks of Indianapolis leaders as they contemplate mass transit, waterworks and
other big-ticket projects. It is well past time for a strategy for a new criminal justice complex outside of downtown.
MoreSHELLA: Nonvoters are real Hoosier citizens, too
March 2, 2013
Jim Shella / Special to IBJDo the politicians care what nonvoters think? House Speaker Brian Bosma recently took issue with the WISH-TV/Ball State Hoosier
Survey because, he said, it wasn’t a voter poll. When challenged, he said that he cares what everybody thinks, but the
message he delivered was that the opinions of voters matter more than those of adults who don’t get to the polls.
MoreSOUDER: Legislature reflects GOP dilemmas
March 2, 2013
Mark Souder / Special to IBJGov. Mike Pence doesn’t just want a tax cut for Hoosiers. A tax cut was foundational to his campaign and his philosophy
of conservatism: Growth comes faster when individuals and corporations spend their own money, because it is more productive
(leveraged better), more diversely spread (less likely to be bet on winners and losers), and more reflective of actual markets.
MoreDAVIS: So far, so good at the Legislature
March 2, 2013
Kathy Davis / Special to IBJI had a happy Valentine’s Day visiting with members of the General Assembly.
MoreMASSON: The economy is not a morality play
March 2, 2013
Doug Masson / Special to IBJAmericans in general and Hoosiers in particular like to see the economy as a morality play. If you are rich, it is because
you are hard-working and clever. If you are poor, it is because you are lazy and stupid.
MoreWESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Youth violence is state health issue
March 2, 2013
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow / Special to IBJEveryone knows you are not supposed to discuss taboo subjects such as religion and politics in the workplace.
MoreBOHANON: What to do with the homeless campers?
March 2, 2013
Cecil Bohanon / Special to IBJA word I like to introduce my students to is “intractable.” This is a fancy, 75-cent college word that means can’t
be solved, can only be dealt with—as in, the problems of homelessness are intractable.
MoreGARRISON: When the issue is not the issue
March 2, 2013
Greg Garrison / Special to IBJNo more than an hour had passed on that awful day at Sandy Hook Elementary School before the usual suspects began their mantra:
The whole thing was because of the gun.
MoreLANOSGA: Small losses erode a bedrock principle
March 2, 2013
Gerry Lanosga / Special to IBJWill Rogers once said, “Congress is in session; hold onto your wallets.” Now, with the General Assembly in session,
and with Rogers’ spirit of affectionate cynicism, I offer a corollary: “Hold onto your open government.
MoreBOEHM: This conflict could have been avoided
March 2, 2013
Ted Boehm / Special to IBJAfter each decennial census, the law requires redrawing the City-County Council districts. A decade ago, after a Democratic
mayor vetoed a redistricting ordinance adopted by the Republican majority following the 2000 census, the Indiana Supreme Court
rejected the partisan maps proposed by the two parties and adopted a neutral map that established the districts through the
2011 election.
MoreSOWELL: All the wrong priorities with budgets
March 2, 2013
Thomas Sowell / Creators SyndicateA nation’s choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as “guns
versus butter.” But understanding the choices of many nations’ political leaders might be helped by examining
the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping on military defense.
MoreBRAINARD: Longevity in office would help Ballard finish projects
March 2, 2013
Jim Brainard / Special to IBJWhy would the mayor of Carmel be weighing in on who runs for mayor of Indianapolis? It is because we are sincere when we talk
about regionalism and how we work best when we work together.
MoreMAHERN: This is not the Ballard who originally ran for public office
March 2, 2013
Brian Mahern / Special to IBJThe prudence of a third term for Mayor Greg Ballard requires the question: Which Greg Ballard?
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.