Local Government
Ship to Shore
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on May 23rd, 2013
For the past week, I’ve been on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, mercifully isolated from local news—except for the few minutes in the morning when I allow myself to log on to the ship’s expensive internet. I check my email and post to my blog—then it’s off to read a good book, eat (and [...]
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Follow the Money
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on May 14th, 2013
Many years ago, when I was practicing real estate law, I represented the developers of the Indianapolis Westin. I still remember a meeting with a mortgage broker from New Jersey; he asked me how long it took to pull a building permit, and I responded “About a day.” He looked at me as if I’d [...]
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Will He or Won’t He?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on May 9th, 2013
I believe today is the last day Governor Pence can veto the “Imperial Mayor” bill. (If he fails to either sign or veto it, it becomes law without his signature.) Leaving aside the numerous problems with the bill itself (the provisions eliminating the At-Large Councilors have gotten most of the attention, but they are the [...]
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Travel Tales, or Civilization’s Discontents
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on May 1st, 2013
Monday I participated in the final round of judging for this year’s We the People—an all-day exercise that left me and most of the other judges exhausted, but so impressed by the depth of knowledge and poised delivery of these high-school students from all over the country. Tuesday—yesterday—it was time to come home. My husband [...]
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What Would I Do Without Texas?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on April 25th, 2013
As I have noted several times, I owe Texas a debt of gratitude. Whenever I am searching for an example of bad public policy to use in class, the Lone Star State comes through for me. I thought about Texas’ reliability during a research presentation by one of the teams of students in my graduate [...]
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