Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star Propaganda Campaign To Promote New Pacer Subsidy Kicks Into Gear

Any economist worth his or her salt will tell you ...

2009-11-06T15:06:07.623-05:00

Any economist worth his or her salt will tell you that you're talking about local discretionary spending. If people spend it Conseco or around Conseco, that means they're not spending it someplace else in the local community. The vast majority of people who attend games and events at Conseco are local folks. All you're doing is changing where money is spent in the local community.

Welcome to the 'club', Roger. They shut m...

2009-11-06T14:50:05.948-05:00

Welcome to the 'club', Roger. They shut me out last week when I dared to question their Wishard propaganda.

This apparently is a modus operendi for Ryerson, R...

2009-11-06T14:23:14.082-05:00

This apparently is a modus operendi for Ryerson, Roger. He has decided to simply censure all dissenting opinions. The guy would have fit in well at the old Soviet Politburo.

They have now locked me out from making comments o...

2009-11-06T14:01:04.389-05:00

They have now locked me out from making comments on any of their stories.

Quite predictably, the comment section is filled w...

2009-11-06T12:55:29.063-05:00

Quite predictably, the comment section is filled with folks oohing and aahing about the design of Conseco. One person dared to mention the financial burden and was instantly labelled as 'stupid.'

Have you ever heard of a newspaper going door-to-d...

2009-11-06T11:43:19.112-05:00

Have you ever heard of a newspaper going door-to-door to peddle a free subscription to a weekly advertising bundle?

The Star was in my neighborhood this week begging me and my neighbors to take their weekly junk circulars.

Perhaps if the Star looked out for the people and dug to find the facts behind the city's corruption, they would not have sinking circulation numbers.

Ruth Holladay reported on their circulation numbers recently. From October 08 to October 09, the Star's subscription numbers sunk 41,479 subscribers.

SOURCE:
http://www.ruthholladay.com/2009/oct/31/star-circulation-down/

Wonder if anyone is willing to say what interest r...

2009-11-06T09:54:34.882-05:00

Wonder if anyone is willing to say what interest rate the taxpayers/CIB are paying the Star and the other investors on that long deferred balloon payment loan.

200-300% ROI ???

It still makes me laugh to hear people laud the bu...

2009-11-06T08:40:25.439-05:00

It still makes me laugh to hear people laud the bustling downtown - having known the earlier years when downtown was TRULY a busy place.

Sure, it had little nightlife but it was elbow to elbow with people all day long. Companies made a living without one handout after another from the taxpayers.

It's ironic that Simon and deBartolo siphoned off the retail from downtown with their suburban malls, killing off most of the downtown retail. Then taxpayers financed a new downtown mall for the Simons.