I'm in favor of building up IPS, but that would take a progressive consensus to invest in downtown. Unfortunately, I don't see that long-term solution coming from anywhere: public or private.

I'm in favor of building up IPS, but that would take a progressive consensus to invest in downtown. Unfortunately, I don't see that long-term solution coming from anywhere: public or private.

I'm as appalled as the next guy if this Black Caucus rumor is true. But the governor's budget is far from education reform.

Careful with your labels.

Anyone with guts would dismantle IPS and quit throwing money down that sinkhole. Its demise, and its re-bordering among the remaining township schools, would do more for kids than anything I can imagine, and surely it would be cheaper.

Now THAT would be education reform.

**if the Black Caucus is hitching its star so identifiably to a casino, it is sad. Gambling is OK, within reason, but to attach race and culture to it, in a veiled threat, is poor politics, poor citizenship, and it fails many of the very people it's trying to help. Outdated logic with victims aplenty.

**John Howard: so long as there is virtually no election or lobbyist law in this state, we will continue to get this kind of government. Implement public financing, or better yet, cap all contributions at $100. Make the reporting transparent…every contribution and expenditure is available online instantly…and reign in those lobbyists. When it's all said and done about 8-10 powerful lobbying groups, on both sides of the aisle, control most of the campaign money. It is broken beyond belief. It's provincial and it rewards leadership, whose ears are constantly tuned to the money men. And those powerful lobbyists love having the same folks control things year after year, because, well…those lobbyists control the leaders.

Harrison Ullman was right.