tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3109008259161756582..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-53048615911990993932007-12-05T09:55:00.000-05:002007-12-05T09:55:00.000-05:007:54,<BR/>You are incorrect. IPS is and always has been inside the old city limits of Indianapolis. IPS is NOT just Center Township alone.<BR/>Look at the 1970 City map and then look at the current IPS boundaries. They are identical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16117048225614854232007-12-04T22:44:00.000-05:002007-12-04T22:44:00.000-05:00"Anon 5:52 Please leave Julia alone..she is near death...have you no shame?<BR/><BR/>8:11 PM EST"<BR/><BR/>Speaking of shame. 75 days without a functioning representative, it's clear Carson will never return to her office, still she clutches the representation of her entire District in her dying hands. <BR/><BR/>Shame, shame, shame. What's more important: ensuring the people's business carries on, or clutching to the title of an office in which you can no longer function?Bart Lieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294734264133374462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-89876034457788236302007-12-04T20:11:00.000-05:002007-12-04T20:11:00.000-05:00Anon 5:52 Please leave Julia alone..she is near death...have you no shame?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-46511879985898803352007-12-04T19:54:00.000-05:002007-12-04T19:54:00.000-05:00IPS' boundaries are not the old city limits of Indianapolis. In fact, IPS has schools located in eight of Marion County's nine townships. The only township with no IPS school is Franklin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-6866727629829305912007-12-04T19:49:00.000-05:002007-12-04T19:49:00.000-05:00Biddle needds Fact Check.<BR/><BR/>Among most educational experts and observers, Biddle's IPS comments would get a huge "you're right."<BR/><BR/>But where does he get off saying the other township systems "fare no better" ?<BR/><BR/>Using test scores and other measures, even the worst of the township systems, probably Warren is a beacon of hope compared to IPS.<BR/><BR/>And the other township systems, up to and including Washington, recognized as the best, need help, but my God, they don't graduate 20%<BR/><BR/>Not even close to that low.<BR/><BR/>Biddle, on this one, used a Tully trait: write it while sitting on your brain, without breaking a sweat to check the little things that could make your story so much more accurate.<BR/><BR/>It's lazy journalism. Period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-39102145985733451362007-12-04T17:52:00.000-05:002007-12-04T17:52:00.000-05:00What Biddle failed to mention was the fact the more than 160,000 residents have moved out of the old city limits of Indianapolis since 1971. Old pre-Unigov Indianapolis is Carson's district. <BR/>That trend continues as evidenced by the ever shrinking enrollment of IPS whose boundaries are the old city limits of Indianapolis.<BR/>I do not recall even one new business that Carson helped bring into her district unless you want to count the shake houses.<BR/>Many black scholars have written far worse about Carson and her cadre than Biddle ever could.<BR/>She was someone who could have done so much and yet did so very little other than enrich those within her circle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-62391632242195390342007-12-04T17:51:00.000-05:002007-12-04T17:51:00.000-05:00I don't agree with much Mr. Biddle has to say, but his commentary on Ms. Carson's impact on Indy is dead-on. Re-writing history does nobody any good. The black community, as a whole, needs to come together and demand more of those who claim to represent it. The decline of Indy during her House tenure should be obvious to anyone who lives here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-68375052010874777472007-12-04T17:33:00.000-05:002007-12-04T17:33:00.000-05:00You are correct. Gay marriage has NEVER been an issue discussed by the city council.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28096705795769269522007-12-04T17:10:00.000-05:002007-12-04T17:10:00.000-05:00anon. 4:12, you are correct that it was the HRO that Carson lectured Ron Gibson, et al. for voting against. I don't recall her railing against them for not supporting gay marriage. It's a significant factual mistake for an award-winning journalist to make.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8011830009144353932007-12-04T16:12:00.000-05:002007-12-04T16:12:00.000-05:00it wasn't gay 'marriage' you nitwit! It was the HRO and it was about human rights extended to the GLBT community. <BR/><BR/>Take your sour grapes and your own racisim and stick it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-66553788099283751332007-12-04T15:56:00.000-05:002007-12-04T15:56:00.000-05:00There is no one more bitter than a man scorned......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-84921258751155680052007-12-04T13:22:00.000-05:002007-12-04T13:22:00.000-05:00Surely people realize that RiShawn wasn't fired for saying things that 'offended' anyone. He was fired because he said exactly what was on his mind. That's what The Star's management fears most - a barking dog they can't muzzle.<BR/><BR/>The 'news biz' has become a PR tool and no longer serves as a stick with which to prod the community into thinking for themselves. <BR/><BR/>It is wonderful that RiShawn hasn't allowed the muzzle to be installed.Bart Lieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294734264133374462noreply@blogger.com