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STYRING: A Thanksgiving lesson in communism
November 17, 2012
Bill Styring / Special to IBJThe Pilgrims were small “c” communists. Lands were farmed in common and everything went into a common storehouse
from which everyone drew sustenance.
MoreTAFT: Resurrecting Indy's urban housing market
November 17, 2012
Bill Taft / Special to IBJThe recession affected some older Indianapolis neighborhoods differently than it did the larger metro area housing market,
with areas of Marion County taking particularly hard hits.
MoreMYERS: Indiana a leader in breast cancer fight
November 17, 2012
Woodrow Myers / Special to IBJBreast cancer is not one disease; it is many diseases. And although it is not limited to women, women over the age of 50 are
at the highest risk.
MoreTREACY: County is trending Democratic for three big reasons
November 3, 2012
Ed Treacy / Special to IBJI’m going to surprise you. I’m not going to tell you Marion County is absolutely a Democratic county. It is more
complex than yes or no.
MoreWALKER: Republicans keep winning with common sense values
November 3, 2012
Kyle Walker / Special to IBJAs with Mark Twain, the report of the death of the Marion County Republican Party was an exaggeration. Don’t believe
me? Check the 25th floor of the City-County Building.
MoreBOEHM: Good reasons not to toss out judges
November 3, 2012
Ted Boehm / Special to IBJThe ballot this year will ask you whether two judges of the Indiana Supreme Court and four on the Court of Appeals will be
retained in office. Don’t forget to vote yes on all six retention questions.
MoreVAUGHN: Election bullies threaten right to vote
November 3, 2012
Julia Vaughn / Special to IBJWith Indiana ranked a dismal 48th for voter turnout, you would think Republicans and Democrats could agree that our state
needs to take aggressive steps to increase the number of active voters.
MoreODLE: The fight to get out the vote is ongoing
November 3, 2012
Samuel L. Odle / Special to IBJAmericans seem to be full of contradictions. Perhaps that is why we are so admired, and yet so hated, by the rest of the world.
MoreGARRISON: This time, the stakes truly are huge
November 3, 2012
Greg Garrison / Special to IBJAlmost every politics-attentive person around Indianapolis probably sees the Nov. 6 elections as of huge consequence.
MoreBOHANON: Mourdock's uncompromising 'extremism'
November 3, 2012
Cecil Bohanon / Special to IBJPolitics is about compromise. But compromise is always around an agenda and elections are about agendas.
MoreEARLY: Donnelly running on high-pocrisy
November 3, 2012
Rex Early / Special to IBJIt is only a few days until the election, and the Mourdock-Donnelly Senate race is still in limbo.
MoreSHELLA: A kitchen where the heat is turned down
November 3, 2012
Jim Shella / Special to IBJAll of a sudden, when I check out news stories on the Internet, a negative political ad pops up and I can’t make it
go away. That is, unless I want the news story to go away, too.
MoreDAVIS: Republicans' turn to vote for Democrats
November 3, 2012
Kathy Davis / Special to IBJIf you know me, I think you agree that I am not a firebrand partisan with automatic reactions based on my Democratic Party
affiliation.
MoreSOUDER: Pence is show horse and work horse
November 3, 2012
Mark Souder / Special to IBJDemocratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg has hauled out the canard that Mike Pence is a “show horse,” not
a “work horse,” based upon two “polls” in 2006 and 2008. Neither was scientific: They were anonymous,
voting multiple times could be easily done, and rivals could rig the voting.
MoreWINSTON: Why rural voters should support Obama
November 3, 2012
Robin Winston / Special to IBJPolitics is an amazing, yet perplexing, profession. I have often wondered why President Obama trails Mitt Romney by a large
margin in rural areas.
MoreMEREDITH: Involved parents can lend support to their schools
November 3, 2012
Teresa Meredith / Special to IBJI do not think parents need a trigger law to allow them to do what they should be doing already by advocating for their children.
MoreHARRIS: Trigger laws critical to amplifying parents' voices
November 3, 2012
David Harris / Special to IBJFor too long, power over urban schools has rested too much with district central offices and not enough with parents.
MoreLEIGHTY: Real feminists want a better economy
November 3, 2012
Hilary Leighty / Special to IBJApparently, the Republican Party has waged a war on women. I’ve heard this from the mainstream media, many Democratic
candidates and even a few Indiana University professors.
MoreSTYRING: Hoping it isn't too late to rethink Rockport
October 13, 2012
Bill Styring / Special to IBJA $2.8 billion coal-to-natural-gas plant in Rockport has been in the works for several years, but the economics of the project
seem dodgier by the day.
MoreDELANEY: Family impact statements would be waste of money
October 13, 2012
Ed DeLaney / Special to IBJThe state could direct $10 million to reducing childhood poverty and require that “family impact statements” be
devised as to proposed regulations. The result would be that poverty would be alleviated by the $10 million minus the cost
of the impact statements and the cost of the inevitable litigation about them.
MoreKENLEY: Idea would encourage government to consider its actions
October 13, 2012
Luke Kenley / Special to IBJMike’s goal No. 6 is to develop a plan to improve the health, safety and well-being of Hoosier families, especially
children.
MoreHOWEY: Super PACs will likely lead to corruption
October 13, 2012
Brian A. Howey / Special to IBJLast summer, when the conservative Americans for Prosperity dumped $700,000 into Indiana on a TV ad attacking Democratic U.S.
Senate candidate Joe Donnelly, I posted a story on the Howey Politics Indiana website talking about how the Super PAC was
running the ad “on behalf” of Republican Senate nominee Richard Mourdock.
MoreBECK: Reasons why debates still matter
October 13, 2012
Lara Beck / Special to IBJIn the days leading up to the election, there are countless opportunities to learn about the candidates who are running for
elected office. With Election Day just weeks away, chances are you are getting bombarded by campaign paraphernalia in the
mailbox, on television and radio, the Internet and in your neighbor’s front yard.
MoreFARGO: Too many politicians dodge the public
October 13, 2012
Anthony L. Fargo / Special to IBJIn Monroe County, the League of Women Voters has been having trouble with its candidate forums for local and state races.
Some of the candidates refuse to take part.
MoreWAGNER: Why the undecideds seem indecisive
October 13, 2012
Jennifer Wagner / Special to IBJI’ll bet you’re not an undecided voter. How do I know? Because you’re reading this opinion piece in this political publication
that resides within a larger publication that’s focused on a narrow set of issues. In other words, you’re engaged.
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In my opinion the estridge companies are crooks. They filed bankruptcy on their 'track housing' side of the business two weeks before they closed on one of my clients' homes. When my client first interviewed Estridge as a builder 6 months before, they specifically ASKED about the solvency of their business, knowing that some builders were struggling. Estridge truly misrepresented their financial situation at that time. I suppose I am more unhappy with the whole system than I am with the builder because what the heck==you can file bankruptcy on 'track homes' but still keep building and make money off of 'custom built' homes??? How ridiculous! They are all homes. How can a company be allowed to bilk thousands of dollars from their subcontractors but still be allowed to build houses?? they should have been made to pay back all their unpaid contractors before being allowed to profit from building any more houses! This alone makes them and the system crooks in my eyes. I would never build an estridge home and I would not recommend for my clients either. If they were truly 'bankrupt' how could they afford to keep building homes anyway??? The whole system needs fixed.
I live a couple blocks east of the Angie's campus and my house is assessed for ~$160,000. If I could get that amount, let alone $384,000 (a 140% bonus), I'd sell in a minute. Either Angie's stockholders just got fleeced, or Angie's is getting about a 58% discount on their property taxes, if these properties are actually worth what they paid Mr. Oesterle for them. Which do you think is the case?
Perhaps the IMA board is really to blame! They agreed to hire Charles. They can't seemingly find donors among themselves, or bring in new blood that will support the museums operating budget with an expanded museum and money to provide curators with something to do (ie buy art). The headlines of disarray at the museum and mass firings are hurting the reputation of the museum for some time to come. If people on the board had misgivings, perhaps they shpuld have more forcefully opposed efforts that they have seemingly been unable to fund, like expansion and the costs it has created!
See, I told u Indyman and Dipsicle....this 8 days is overkill. It's barely worth a weekend....great job Tony George! Your dream has been fulfilled....he fans want the I r l back. Thats how good it was.....and that sucked.
I have been in training for a short time now but right off I can see that safety and quality are the number one issues, my experience as of late has been a positive one, the employees along with Jeff the plant manager and the operation supervisor as well as the engineers are a highly motivated group of people, what an asset for the area to have and for company's in need of a quality metal products.