Despite all the after-the-fact posturing and finger pointing, most of us know the truth about the Indiana General Assembly: its members simply refused to address the urgent problems Indiana faces.
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Category Archives: Local Government
Time for a Reality Check
Your ex-husband told you he was a great money manager, but when he left, you discovered that the house had been refinanced and all your credit cards were maxed out. Your line of credit at the bank is near its limit, and interest takes almost a third of your paycheck. You’ve been deferring maintenance on the house, and the small problems have become costly repairs. You are paying for multiple home security systems, although your neighbor only pays for one; you and your sisters support your retired mother, but you pay 70%, a sister who is richer pays 30%, and another sister who could help pays nothing.
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Mayonnaise on White
“Mayonnaise on white bread.” That was what we called Indianapolis when I was growing up—when we weren’t calling it “India-no-place.”
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Gerrymandering
The Indiana General Assembly is preparing to embark upon what individual legislators call redistricting, and what the rest of us call gerrymandering. It will be an intensely partisan endeavor.
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The Nanny State
The powers that be have recently decreed that Indiana motorists can be stopped and ticketed solely for failure to use their seatbelts. Prior to the new rule, a traffic cop who had stopped you for another violation -speeding, or a missing taillight — could issue a secondary citation if he also found you without proper restraints, but he…
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