Comments on Advance Indiana™: Is The City Of Indianapolis Foregoing Millions In Revenues To Help An Insider's Client?

Thank you. I just happened to be reading your blo...

2009-09-18T10:30:25.718-05:00

Thank you. I just happened to be reading your blog when you posted. I probably should have read it first. Nonetheless, you're right. It stinks.

Big Willy, The history was actually in the previo...

2009-09-18T10:24:58.565-05:00

Big Willy,

The history was actually in the previous post on my blog. Your memory is correct. The person behind Goldsmith's efforts back then was also Joe Loftus who was Deputy Mayor and lobbyist for the City and Ameritech (which later became AT&T)

I don't doubt that Paul is correct. Perhaps s...

2009-09-18T10:20:10.654-05:00

I don't doubt that Paul is correct. Perhaps some one can refresh my memory: Didn't Mayor Goldsmith try to eliminate channel 16 and Rick Maultra's job?

The argument that the fees would just be passed on...

2009-09-18T07:32:17.467-05:00

The argument that the fees would just be passed on to consumers (of those companies products) is intellectually dishonest in that the alternative is that all taxpayers absorb some portion of the burden.

In this instance, my understanding is that we have public right of ways and roadways that must be maintained by the government, so long as that is the case, utilities should pay for maintenance of such or the reduction of life span they create when they tear up roads to lay cable, pipes, conduits, etc.

If that cost is passed on to their specific customers that seems more proper than corporations shifting that burden onto taxpayers.