Comments on: Let Me Try This Again

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:51:44 +0000

Yes, Ma’am. That gentleman unleashed 1-2 full pages in the Star on the slow downfall of his business, with enough specificity to not sound completely implausible. There was the name of local lady in the (business zoning?) part of the city, who sounded like bad news.

By: Melyssa

Melyssa — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:32:58 +0000

And Taxpayer don’t forget Indianapolis Downtown Inc! Remember Ted of Hollywood Bar & Filmworks? He knows the dirt on IDI. He’s also accessible and still keeps his eye on Indy.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:22:00 +0000

Go Melyssa & Tom! CIB/ISC need to be more open in the spirit of the recent city/county budget. The library construction fiasco is an example of the bath the taxpayer can take without sufficient communication and accountability. Where are the publicized minutes, budgets, accounting, and summations of CIB & ISC meetings & transactions? Where is the Indy Star investigation given their reaffirmed desire for local investigative reporting? What ARE the CIB and ISC doing? I’d love to hear my suspicion is mistaken by reading some discernable explanation that affirms our tax dollars are well-managed.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:42:22 +0000

There is going to be a big scandal one day about the CIB which as far as I can tell answers to nobody, certainly not the taxpayer. Poor as they can be, give me standard government agencies any day, compared to those quasi-state agencies, government sponsored enterprises, and public private partnerships which no one oversees.

By: Melyssa

Melyssa — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:01:13 +0000

Did anyone catch that the CIB gives the arts council 12.5 million per year? That’s OUR money, folks.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:47:59 +0000

A small initial gesture of a desperately needed reality in government. Who elected from the “political class” is trying to do this? GO Colonel Mayor Sir!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:43:25 +0000

Trends matter. Long disconnected from the people and therefore the Constitution; government has primarily exhibited an “ability” to add bureaucratite layers; bloating itself beyond all humane proportion, and behaving therefore inhumanely. Reductions in the morbid girth of government, are therapeutic steps in the cellular, financial health of citizens, whom it’s supposed to represent. Whether they’re aware of it or not, governments are competing for customers, citizens, who want good, transparent, coherent policy, & Constitutionally responsible government.

By: Daw-g

Daw-g — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:41:55 +0000

>Now is a $12 savings per taxpayer a lot
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No.
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But it’s **MY** $12.00 and I’ll gladly take it.

By: David Myers

David Myers — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:07:07 +0000

Just go ask Mr. Brown and the democrats why they brought this up after the election. They are the ones who pushed for this now they has got it. Better watch what you ask for. Now lets see how many change there veiws on this.

By: Melyssa

Melyssa — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:41:25 +0000

Advance Indiana, Ogden on Politics, and HFFT are all praising it. I don’t see it as a political stunt. I see it as keeping your word to the people, Abdul.
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Now, how about some sunshine on the CIB, and that dark hole of our money.