Comments on Advance Indiana™: Stop The Lying, Mayor Ballard

And thinking about Ballard's end game re our p...

2010-06-02T10:39:00.155-05:00

And thinking about Ballard's end game re our public swimming pools, you can now watch, "Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement", on-line.

The downtown Cultural Trail was originally being f...

2010-06-01T20:00:55.794-05:00

The downtown Cultural Trail was originally being funded with the donated money from the Glick family until it hit cost over-runs of more than $10 million. Federal grant money is being used to make up the shortfall; however, maintenance costs on the trail are going to run very high. Any time a walkway has to be dug up, you have the mosaic brick relaying problem that the Mayor complains about on the Circle as costing too much to maintain. The landscaping upkeep is another costly issue. The Mayor is tapping another federal grant to make the more than $10 million in improvements to Georgia Street. Supposedly, these other projects will be outside the downtown, but who can you really believe. New mayors and councilors can change all of that.

Has the mayor indicatd where, exactly, those stree...

2010-06-01T17:42:54.869-05:00

Has the mayor indicatd where, exactly, those street and sidewalk improvements will be?

Specifically, will any of them occur outside the mile square, or even more than 5 blocks from the LOS?

To me this plan seem to be deswigned to fund some pre-Super Bowl enhancements and little else.

A very readable, ironically "transparent"...

2010-06-01T11:01:17.559-05:00

A very readable, ironically "transparent" description of what some conservative and not-so-conservative voters find onerous about the proposed transfer. I sent money, voted for Ballard, and liked his early work on the police department and city-county budgeting. I have big problems with the bloated, convoluted "reform" of city water management, similar to our grotesque national health "reform".

When are all our levels of government going to get it that just because they give a project an attractive title, doesn't mean we trust them to undertake it frugally or with the average taxpayer in mind?

Milka Duno may be one of the few with a worse track record than goverment proposals- but I'd darn sure rather look at her when the lying starts.