Comments on Advance Indiana™: Let's Keep Our Priorities Straight, Please

While I can afford to go to the Super Bowl, I have...

2011-01-31T10:19:07.925-05:00

While I can afford to go to the Super Bowl, I have zero desire to go.

I am all for the naked body scanners being installed at every gate to the Oil Can to radiate everyone who attends the game (for their own safety, of course).

The gov't says those scanners are safe, so they must be. (just like agent orange was safe)

"And maybe the people who call themselves jou...

2011-01-30T08:32:57.438-05:00

"And maybe the people who call themselves journalists can focus on issues that are relevant to the rest of us."

The original Willy Wonka was winding-up when Gene Wilder said something to Charlie like, "So shines a good deed in a troubled world." That's the glass-half-full attitude I have to believe in sometimes. Thanks to the constant investigative work of yourself and the few others we have, including channel 6's Kara Kennedy on Wayne township's retiring superintendent.

I sure hope they play the SB next year, without de...

2011-01-30T07:33:15.354-05:00

I sure hope they play the SB next year, without delay.

Otherwise the city will have even more time to find even more reasons and even more things they 'must' spend (er, 'invest') our tax dollars on it.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that if you're unl...

2011-01-29T22:26:20.398-05:00

Oh, and I forgot to mention that if you're unluncky enough to have a heart attack or some other medical emergency, you better you can hold on for at least 30 minutes because that is the average response time for an ambulance run in Detroit.

Jeff, I won't disagree with you that Detroit f...

2011-01-29T22:24:57.928-05:00

Jeff, I won't disagree with you that Detroit finally has a competent mayor who might not be on the take, but the poor guy is pushing rope up a hill. Detroit has a 39% graduation rate, nearly 80% of children are born out-of-wedlock and it is one of the most crime-ridden cities in America. What used to be beautiful neighborhoods where the rich lived are now lined with houses boarded up or broken down. Every year on Halloween the kids have fun setting fire to the large stock of abandoned homes. Even the downtown hotels that were a part of the Ren-Cen project back in the late 1970s have fallen into disrepair and convention centers avoid the city like the plague. Not much hope up there.

Pretending that the Super Bowl is important is the...

2011-01-29T20:39:36.310-05:00

Pretending that the Super Bowl is important is their priority, which our fearless leaders and feckless media believe should be our priority also, since the sports / convention strategy has transformed Indianapolis from Indiana-no-place to its present glory, with never-ending economic benefits.

The Super Bowl is just the frosty icing on the succulent downtown economic cake cooked up by our Five-Star Michelin politicos. And no matter what anyone says, we can have our cake and eat it too.

Gary, I agree with your sentiment about hosting t...

2011-01-29T18:38:39.572-05:00

Gary,

I agree with your sentiment about hosting the Super Bowl completely, but I have to take exception to your characterization of Detroit. I travel often to Detroit to visit family, and can attest that it is a city working very hard to fix its numerous problems. In fact, it has a distinct advantage over Indianapolis - a well-respected mayor (Dave Bing) with a vision who has the city's best interests at heart and who isn't in some big law firm's pocket.

I know Detroit seems like an easy target to denigrate, but it really isn't fair.

Thanks.