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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Local Government</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Audacious in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/audacious-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s New York Times reports that Rahm Emmanuel will announce a 7.1 billion-with-a-b infrastructure improvement plan for Chicago. Improvements will be made to everything from the water system to the airport, from public transportation to parks. The improvements will be financed primarily through a public-private investment trust, details of which Mayor Emmanuel is supposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sausage-Making at Work</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/sausage-making-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights ordinance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old saying that the two things you should never watch are sausage-making and law-making. Good as that advice is, it can be very enlightening (if somewhat nauseating) to be present as the democratic process unfolds. Yesterday, I accompanied the President of Indiana Equality to South Bend, where the Common Council was to deliberate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing Questions</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/disturbing-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/disturbing-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We woke this morning to news reports that five teenagers had been shot while walking along Indianapolis&#8217; downtown canal. The shots evidently came from the parking lot of the Historical Society&#8211;where a wedding was taking place at the time. As I write this, little is known except that two of the teens are in critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No &#8220;We&#8221; in Mitch Land&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/theres-no-we-in-mitch-land/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/theres-no-we-in-mitch-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[320 million windfall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Goldsmith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Goldsmith was Mayor&#8211;talking incessantly about government&#8217;s &#8220;customers&#8221; while shifting costs from the operating to the capital budget in order to &#8220;reduce&#8221; taxes (i.e., push the costs to the next administration)&#8211;I used to grouse that his vision of the ideal government would be one that eliminated all municipal services so that the City-County Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil You Know&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-devil-you-know/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-devil-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of political truisms&#8211;which I have always accepted as &#8220;givens&#8221;&#8211;went up in smoke last night. The first was that at-large candidates win or lose based upon the performance of their party&#8217;s mayoral candidate. The second was that in close races, victory is largely a matter of getting your vote out. In Indianapolis yesterday, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Not! Did So!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/did-not-did-so/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/did-not-did-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, budget battles. This morning&#8217;s Star detailed the back and forth political arguments about whether the Ballard Administration actually made the budget cuts the mayor promised during his campaign. Their independent analysis amounted to: who knows? That&#8217;s not a criticism of the reporters&#8211;it&#8217;s a reflection of the games public managers play. This actually began back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and Policy: A Cautionary Tale</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/politics-and-policy-a-cautionary-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/politics-and-policy-a-cautionary-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics of incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time to reconsider]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sharing my next column for the IBJ, which expands upon my earlier post, and considers the policy issues that the Litebox blunder illuminate. &#160; How did we get from “Enterprise Zones” to Litebox? Back in my Hudnut Administration days, I remember enthusiastic discussions about Enterprise Zones&#8211;a new tool promoted by then-Congressman Jack Kemp to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/questions/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Litebox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get tired of beating the same dead horse, but the Star&#8217;s story this morning about the Litebox episode&#8211;a piece of real reporting that is becoming increasingly rare&#8211;raises additional questions. The story makes vividly clear how slapdash the City&#8217;s vetting process has been, and how politically motivated the decision to announce &#8220;job creation.&#8221; But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WTF?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/wtf/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/wtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballard Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniels Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Litebox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse the title of this post, but I just read the lead story in the Indianapolis Star about Litebox&#8211;the company that was showered with praise and promises of tax breaks just yesterday by both Mayor Ballard and Governor Daniels. In my post yesterday, I questioned whether the obviously strange owner had been adequately vetted. Today&#8217;s news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Creation Delusions</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/job-creation-delusions/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/job-creation-delusions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Develop Indy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the state of the economy, it&#8217;s understandable that candidates and incumbents alike would focus on job creation. It&#8217;s also understandable that the mayor and governor would make a big deal out of promises to locate new factories in Indianapolis. But it&#8217;s beginning to look as if the &#8220;vetting&#8221; process could use some vetting of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballard&#8217;s Brand of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/ballards-brand-of-socialism/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/ballards-brand-of-socialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweetheart deals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Matt Tully criticized Melina Kennedy&#8217;s campaign for recent, negative ads. Essentially, he said that she had already demonstrated that she was the superior candidate, and that the ads were beneath her&#8211;that Ballard, whatever his deficiencies, is a decent guy and didn&#8217;t deserve the negative characterizations. I agree with Tully about negative ads, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting From Here to There</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/getting-from-here-to-there/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/getting-from-here-to-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike lanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commuting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest column, urbanist Neal Peirce recounts the deteriorating condition of mass transit in the U.S., and details the ways in which that deterioration&#8211;if left unattended&#8211;will further depress the economy and damage the environment. It&#8217;s a gloomy picture, not just because it is clearly accurate, but because our political system is in the thrall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sinking into Mediocrity</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/sinking-into-mediocrity/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/sinking-into-mediocrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mediocre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public amenities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports venues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, those of us who live in Indianapolis only focus on the city&#8211;and what we&#8217;d like to see it become&#8211;every four years, during mayoral elections. If then. Whatever one might think about the &#8220;visions&#8221; displayed by the current candidates, it occurs to me that those of us who call Indianapolis home need to develop some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/its-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us remember James Carville’s admonition—the one that became the singular focus of the successful Clinton campaign—“it’s the economy, stupid!” That laser-like focus on economic well-being was generally seen as a smart campaign tactic, which it was. But it was also smart policy. Which brings us to the current campaign for Mayor of Indianapolis. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York, New York</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/new-york-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/new-york-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayoral election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I told a coworker that I was coming to New York for the weekend, he shuddered. He hasn&#8217;t ever been there, he said, but he hates big cities. I LOVE big cities. And therein lies a political challenge for those who would be mayor. We talk about the need for our candidates to demonstrate [...]]]></description>
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