TAFT: Education reform should include real estate
IPS has declined to sell or lease these buildings to charter schools.
Bill Taft / Special to IBJ
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TAFT: Jobs will bring back worn neighborhoods
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
TAFT: Indy needs demolition and renovation
No city has ever demolished its way to urban health.
TAFT: The mayor as crucial recruiter-in-chief
Indianapolis could become a core of unskilled, low-wage earners in a region of knowledge workers.
TAFT: More leverage needed from Water Co. sale
If these funds are completely spent on infrastructure repairs or even enhancing service programs by capitalizing a new endowment, we will miss an opportunity to attract a far greater investment in transforming our core city.
TAFT: Why mass transit should be a GOP issue
History actually shows that Republicans have been the authors of the largest publicly funded transportation projects in U.S. history because they believed infrastructure investment was an important way government could be a catalyst for economic development.