Comments on Advance Indiana™: More Huffing and Puffing From CIB Leaders

Where are all the sports fans in this? The arts ...

2009-05-02T10:35:00.000-05:00

Where are all the sports fans in this?

The arts supporters came out in droves.

Where are the Colts and Pacers fans?

Likely their fans are parked in front of the tube oblivious to the crisis caused by these sports teams.

The Arts and the IMA were here long before the Hoo...

2009-05-02T04:57:00.000-05:00

The Arts and the IMA were here long before the Hoosier Dome and Market Square Arena. The beautiful State Parks that dot the landscape in Indiana were also here and most of them have provided quality jobs for decades.

Where I came from the State Park was the masterpiece and pride of the whole area.

Maybe Indiana should look at the things that people really came to Indiana for instead of a bunch of thugs on a basketball court and a building with a moving roof. We all played football in the rain and snow. God forbid Jamall Tinsley doesn't get his $21M for sitting at home and Peyton would catch cold.

Load up the CIB, the Pacers and the Colts on a bus trip and go to the IMA and then to a picnic at a State Park. Maybe they will get a simpler life style attitude adjustment.

I bet most of them don't know where the IMA is and where in the world is Clifty Falls State Park?

Instead of facing their problem head-on they opted...

2009-05-01T21:08:00.000-05:00

Instead of facing their problem head-on they opted to end their grants for arts and tourism. This, I suspect, is an effort to piss off the broadest number of folks possible (given the stink that the Arts folks raised when their handout was merely curtailed a few weeks back).

After a few more 'cuts', they will have rescinded all of the budget increase they voted for last year. Big whoop!

They still are not making any effort to actually FIX their problem.