Mayors these days do more than fill chuckholes and provide police and fire protection. They direct highly sophisticated economic development efforts, based on the recognition that a healthy economy is critically important to a healthy and successful city.
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 5
How does a candidate for Mayor respond to environmental issues? By promising to erect an air filter at the city limits? By forbidding pollution of White River by Hamilton county residents? Most environmental problems just don’t lend themselves to local solutions. To make matters worse, scientific debate rages over the causes…
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 6
If you doubt that economists are cynical and cranky folks, a glance at Morton’s column on neighborhood organizations should prove the point.
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 1
Leadership Skills. This year, voters in Indianapolis will elect either Sue Ann Gilroy or Bart Peterson to lead our City into the new millenium…
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 2
I first met Officer Friendly in grade school, when he visited my classroom and explained that The Policeman Is Your Friend. It didn’t occur to me that reality might be somewhat more complicated until my second day as Bill Hudnut’s Corporation Counsel, when IPD initiated a job action by circling the City County Building with…
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