Comments on Advance Indiana™: More On Property Tax Revenues Now Flowing To The CIB

Actually, Melyssa, if you were west of the airport...

2010-09-18T07:00:59.328-05:00

Actually, Melyssa, if you were west of the airport, you probably were NOT in Marion County, and it should have been an Airport Officer or ISP who gave you the ticket.
Remember, Bart Peterson "gave" the airport to Hendricks County. That's why they have all those huge, new businesses out there, while western Marion County is now a ghost town.

It is interesting to note, albeit frustrating, tha...

2010-09-17T19:13:57.101-05:00

It is interesting to note, albeit frustrating, that no matter now much money the CIB pours down the sink hole known as professional sports that somehow it is alright. I've said it before and I'll say it again it is time to disband, dismantle, demolish or destroy the CIB. The only improvement from that August body is on the bottom line of the Simons and the Irsays!

If Ballard the mayor, were Ballard the candidate.....

2010-09-17T17:24:53.779-05:00

If Ballard the mayor, were Ballard the candidate....well, he would have led the charge TO AUDIT the CIB!

By the way, dropped a friend off this week at the new airport (which looks from the outside like the old airport). There was very little activity at the airport. I can't believe we needed that new facility. It was like a ghost town.

As I was rounding the bend to leave and get back on the interstate I missed the 25mph speed limit sign as I was focusing on the interstate signs down the road to get in the correct exit lane.

There was a police officer waiting just around the bend where the obscure sign was located. He clocked me going 51mph (safe speed) as I kept up with the minimal traffic flow on the wide four or five line road leading out of the airport.

He was a nice enough cop and represented IMPD well (doing his job). He gave me a ticket on the very day I literally emptied my checking account to the tune of $5,000 to shore up my mortgage escrow account that skyrocketed into arrears due to my property taxes QUADRUPLING and insurance doubling!

I don't have enough money left after taxes to pay the ticket.

Everyone should beware. There is a speed trap at the new airport. I guess the property tax revenues they extort from us aren't enough to feed this insatiable monster they call a "world class city".

This makes me ill as I just coughed up nearly $5,0...

2010-09-17T09:59:32.383-05:00

This makes me ill as I just coughed up nearly $5,000 cash (with three weeks notice) to shore up the defiencies in my escrow caused by my property tax quadrupling!

I think I literally have pocket change to live on for a month after that.

Yet the Simons, who are billionaires, get a million dollar scoreboard and a multi-million dollar bailout.

I worked day and night that summer of 2007 to help Ballard's victory because I believed him. I believed that he would protect our property. Sadly, he's too dim to protect the citizens. If he was bright, he would have surrounded himself with a kitchen cabinet of the activists who helped him win. We were the ones who had no agenda except to create an honest city. And he all but ignores our advice. Instead he puts his trust in the untrustworthy and self;-serving.

The gravy flows freely from the Indianapolis Gravy...

2010-09-17T08:23:25.629-05:00

The gravy flows freely from the Indianapolis Gravy Train Corporation, er, I mean Capital Improvement Board.

I don't believe Ballard has 'misplaced priorities.' I believe hs has NO priorities -- What is commonly called 'being interrupt driven.' Whomever last left the 25th Floor Catering Office is where the next bucket of gravy goes.

Mmm, mmm, mmm. Ballard's Biscuits and Gravy. They are what keeps the Fat Cats getting fatter.