Comments on: Indy’s Top 2000*

By: Think Again

Think Again — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:25:33 +0000

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.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:25:33 +0000

By: Name

Name — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:02:31 +0000

lets not forget the jimmy buffet concert was cancelled!

By: John Howard

John Howard — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:17:22 +0000

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.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:34:07 +0000

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.

By: patriotpaul

patriotpaul — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:45:35 +0000

“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.

By: IndyAries

IndyAries — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:48:49 +0000

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.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:27:39 +0000

Damn Paul, who peed in your cornflakes? Take a breath.

By: patriotpaul

patriotpaul — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:15:22 +0000

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

By: shorebreak

shorebreak — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:42:49 +0000

“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.