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Perhaps Sen. Young should run for Mayor on the strength of all his great ideas to fix Indianapolis.
Bingo
He isn’t a political genius.
Throwback to construction of Lucas Oil Field: Those facilities had been designed, built and financed by the Indy Capital Improvement Board for decades–flawlessly. At the time, Mayor Bart Peterson was pretty popular, and thought to be a potential candidate for higher office. Republicans were so averse to giving him a new football stadium on his watch, that they took over the Lucas Oil process with a new Stadium Authority. Which had zero experience in these matters.
Republicans are so eager ot jump on something for political advantage. Careful, Sen. Young…downtown’s a complicated situation. You’re not able to solve it.
Not sure the State is capable of running the Mile Square the State has allowed a 1 billion surplus disappear without any explanation. I do feel the State should have a say and help fund infrastructure projects within the Mile Square. The State presently can not even maintain the State Complex. The State Complex’s condition represents the look of a depressed State.
But Robert my new cig tax is supposed to cover that $Billion. Ha!
The R’s do run the state like a Soviet Politburo. No surprise they’re turning their totalitarian tendencies to downtown Indianapolis. The power-mongering of these people never ends. Meanwhile they’re busy shoving data centers and carbon sequestration down people’s throats. They are tone deaf to people’s objections and needs. I wonder how many Hoosiers will go homeless or die from the Medicaid cuts passed into law by their sociopathic national party? How many kids will starve because of SNAP cuts? Not even on their radar screen.
The Statehouse starves the city of funding through backwards incentives and road funding formulas, funnels all of the gang violence and drugs into the city through refusal to implement common sense firearm and hemp legislation, and then wants to take over the town?
Exactly! Sen Young, keep your incompetence at the state level, please.
…and Sen. Young has been in the legislature since 1986, more than half his life. I wonder if he ever considers that he is part of the problem.
The Republican party has for years, tried to ruin Indianapolis so why should the city trust them now?
Tell Michael Young to keep worrying about Pittsboro and Indianapolis will take care of itself.
Keep the racist out of Indianapolis.
Idiot
This whole pipe dream sounds like a new episode of the Three Stooges, with 3 opposing HOA’s fighting over jurisdictional authorities and turf.
How about just giving Marion County back the taxes the legislature steals form us every day and distributes out to the rural counties. My understanding is that about 1/3rd of the tax dollars collected in Marion County end up elsewhere. Can someone out there correct me if I’m wrong? I would imagine correcting this fiscal malfeasance and the road funding formula would be a good start. They could follow that up with distributing county option income taxes partially to the county where folks work. The State has been fiscally abusing it’s capital for decades. It would be amazing if Indianapolis could actually use it’s own tax revenues to provide adequate police protection, safe and functional roads, and a clean and safe urban environment.
How about allowing the city to collect property taxes on all of the state owned property it protects with fire and police service. I’ll bet we could increase center township tax collections by a few percentage points!
Quite honestly at this point, I’m open to the idea of having somebody other than incompetent Joe Hogwash and the lackluster prosecutor’s office be in charge. The Democratic party is still anti-law and order, so let’s try something different.
That would require state legislatures not making it their mission to make Indianapolis worse.
Classic propaganda’s move – make things worse then point out they’re worse and blame the other guys
So Sen. Young wishes to incorporate Indianapolis into the abyss of the Deep State with bureaucrats not answerable to the voting public in charge. The correct response is: no way!
Mississippi tried something like this. They just ended up gutting the Jackson police department by hiring a good chunk of the existing force with higher salaries. It was great for the few blocks around the statehouse. With a demoralized and depleted force left in Jackson, all you had to worry about was getting carjacked before you got to the state house.
I won’t say things are perfect, but this is just another stupid idea, making sure the Republican propaganda machine keeps spinning.
The larger issue is that Indianapolis needs to remember the city is more than the mile square. The lack of investment in the other townships is disgusting.
Amen Murray!!!! Roads are pathetic. They suck from years of inattention. Take a chance driving down 5-Points Road in Franklin Township. Probably hasn’t been repaved in 20-25 years at least. That road is just one example of thousands of other arterials not to mention streets in all the residential neighborhood that are a patchwork quilt of asphalt filling over filling over filling. What a joke. It’s not even close to being deferred maintenance. It’s pure neglect by the City. Weeds and brush along thoroughfares and arterials is another joke. Take a drive down N. Keystone and check out the overgrowth (jungle) practically now infringing into the right-of-way as one drives over 86th Street. Oh, another jungle is the entire interchange of Washington and Shadeland. Absolutely ridiculous and trashy, From there, continue south on Shadeland toward English Avenue. Looks just like the condition of the Keystone bridge over 86th Street. But throw in a few hundred cubic yards of trash into the overgrowth. Looks like s..t. Do any City-County councilors actually drive around this City? If they do, are they visually impaired? All anyone cares about is when the next shooting results in the next murder while other services get NEGLECTED. Which leads to another question for the great leaders of this crappy City (quite frankly I would be very worried for conventioneers and the organizers). The question is how much in tax dollars on average is incurred to save the life of every gun shot wound victim at Eskenazi? Answer that one mayor for general publication in the media for all taxpayers to take note. No, this freaking City needs new leadership and frankly property taxes likely need to triple or quadruple to take care of all the neglect. Forget all the hype about the Fever’s new playground, the new soccer stadium (which by the way was going to be privately funded, and not built by the Capital Improvement Board using the never ending restaurant, hotel and car rental taxes, another blunder when THE mayor stuck his nose in the development which he had supported initially), the endless change orders in renovating Gainbridge FH, a future renovation of Lucas Oil stadium and all the maintenance for all those. The money needed for those and the trillions needed for streets and roads, somebody needs to take charge. So far, it sure isn’t the so-called present mayor and the City-County Council.
Patrick, my Republican CCC member tells me to blame fellow Republican legislators like Sen. Mike Young for the lack of money available for the suburbs… because it all gets spread around the rest of the state to keep the taxes low on people who live in the economically unsustainable parts of Indiana.
The article below says all you need to know about this guy. Sounds like a clone of Richard Murdock.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/longtime-indiana-senator-leaves-republican-caucus-amid-abortion-debates