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  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Just finished reading the Indy/Citizens Gas MOU. Nothing like a 21-page, single spaced light read for a Sunday afternoon. - posted on 14/03/2010 03:50 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Going to spend part of the day reading the 21-page MOU between City and Citizens Gas. Hope critics of the proposed transfer do the same. - posted on 14/03/2010 09:20 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz @IWURuss He's back and still emotionally unbalanced. - posted on 14/03/2010 08:38 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz There is something fundamentally wrong with America when there are 3 copies if "Hurt Locker" and 20 copies of "2012" at the video store. - posted on 13/03/2010 09:43 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz What's up with Purdue? This is worse than watching the Rodney King video!!! - posted on 13/03/2010 06:09 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Lugar and IN Supt Tony Bennett recognizing Warren Township schools. - posted on 13/03/2010 11:45 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz At event at Statehouse. Have to interview US Senator Dick Lugar. - posted on 13/03/2010 11:29 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz House passed education bill 97-0. - posted on 13/03/2010 01:29 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz House passes UI bill 85-12. Senate passed it earlier 50-0. - posted on 13/03/2010 01:29 am
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz More analysis over the weekend. Until then, Sine Die! - posted on 12/03/2010 11:29 pm
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Indy’s Top 2000*

This post is a little tricky as I’ve only been hanging around Indianapolis since the Fall of 2004.  But I think I’ve done enough research to fill in the gaps for the biggest news stories of the decade (although the decade doesn’t end until December 31, 2010).  If I missed something, let me know.

2000 -  Bart Peterson sworn in as first Democratic Mayor of Indianapolis in years.

2001 – 9/11.

2002 – Economy takes major toll on state,  calamity slated to repeat in six years.

2003 – Indiana Governor Frank O’Bannon dies in office after suffering massive stroke in Chicago.

2004 – Mitch Daniels elected Governor of Indiana.  Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature.

2005 – Indiana lawmakers join 20th Century by passing Daylight Savings Time.

2006 -  Indiana voters turn state congressional delegation more blue, throwing out three Republican Congressmen.  State delegation goes from 7-2 (R) to 5-4 (D).

2007 -  Political novice Greg Ballard rides wave of taxpayer discontent into office sweeping out two-term incumbent Bart Peterson.  Election also becomes catalyst for property tax reform.   Julia Carson passes away.

2008 – Mitch Daniels easily re-elected to second term at the same time Barack Obama becomes the first Democrat to win Indiana since 1964.

2009 – Slow, stagnant economy wipes out a lot of jobs and Indiana’s billion-dollar plus surplus.

2010 – Property tax caps fully kick-in.  Chaos ensues at local level, could consolidation be far behind?

Posted: 12|30|09 at 7:00 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Think Again
    Well, Guest, DST hasn't put direct dollars in my pocket. But I am required to communicate with other offices of my company, and with vendors, mostly on eastern time.

    The time switch has made my life easier all year long.

    We were living in the dark ages. Build a bridge and get over it.
  • John Howard
    Abdul is a stickler (and is incorrect) about when a 'decade' ends and then puts the entire state back in the previous century. Well, he may be right on the latter item.
  • guest
    Daylight saving time. HAHAHAHA. You are a lockstep boot licker, Abdul. Commerce has increased as a result of DST. My butt. Keep up the great humor.
  • patriotpaul
    "Think Again", I'm hyperventilating, but it's just the beginning. Let's not forget the boondoggle of the underestimating cost of Lucas Oil Can, and the over-runs on the Library, and downtown escalating office vancancies. IndyAries has it correct.
  • IndyAries
    Piss-poor government is the problem. What is particularly frustrating is that there doesn't appear to be any end to the piss-poor government we have inflicted upon us.
  • Think Again
    Damn Paul, who peed in your cornflakes? Take a breath.
  • patriotpaul
    10 blunders: State passes property tax cap but Senator Long tells Star News it is unconstitutional, though he voted for it in a touted 'historic' legislation. Pacers brawl in Detroit and afterhour club shootings draws ire Bart Peterson misjudges public mood on property tax; gets booted to Lilly. CIB discovered operating in red; then hoodwinks legislature City Council plagued by ethics problems ISTA in financial conflicts Schools deficient in reading, writing, and low graduation. Indiana marked by high obesity, 2nd highest smoking rate, 4th worse place with unhappy residents, top 10 in contaminated tap water. Record home foreclosures; enormous property auctions Colossal problems with property reassessments. Shepard-Kernan report mostly failed to produce action on reforms
  • shorebreak
    "2010 – Property tax caps fully kick-in. Chaos ensues at local level, could consolidation be far behind?"

    If the folks who pushed for capping property taxes get their way (the same folks who omitted any alternative funding mechanism that would keep municipalities viable, and never informed the public that this would be the result), yes, there will be consolidation.

    After consolidation occurs, it will probably be the very same folks who step up and say "property tax caps were a mistake - our failed municpalities need funding so we need to go back to the same-old, same-old. Only when that happens, under the consolidation scheme we'll only have one elected county official with a council of unelected appointees, and all local representation will have been "democratically" eliminated by the folks who have no comprehension that local representation is the only direct conduit to self governance for the majority of individuals and businesses.
  • Dave
    Here's a fair question. How is the existing property tax cap, Article 13, working or being applied?
  • TheNaughties
    With all due respect, 9/11 was not a local story. Did it have a local impact? Yes, such as FAA cancelling all flights. Perhaps listing "The ramifications of 9/11" would've been more appropriate.
  • Name
    lets not forget the jimmy buffet concert was cancelled!
  • IndyAries
    Abdul, you forgot the Amendment to Article 10 (inventory taxes) in 2004.

    Remember...this is where government and the media sold this 'repeal' as a method to exempt residential property taxes, and 77 percent of the people bought the lie.

    Remember when government and media said that the tax would not shift onto residential property owners?
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