Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard Shoveling Another $15 Million To Politically-Connected Developer For Downtown Apartments

Good thing they've ringed Indetoilet with 465,...

2015-11-09T12:04:55.888-05:00

Good thing they've ringed Indetoilet with 465, that will make it easier for martial lawmart troops to contain zombies when the economic collapse happens.

You are spot on correct Mr. Welsh. Many of these...

2015-11-07T05:36:42.420-05:00

You are spot on correct Mr. Welsh. Many of these units will sit empty because there simply are not enough hipsters in Indy to pay $1500/month to live in a mediocre, taxapayer-funded, Midwestern downtown esp. when Mommy and Daddy's basement is empty up in inner city Carmel. Those that do move in will abandon quickly when crime and shoddy maintenance makes them realize that they scewed up. Fortunately fo them, they're renters. They don't own these dumps. Indy does. As you said previously, one need only take a drive around 465 to see what these apartments will soon look like. It's all over for Indy. This city is officially in the Detroit death spiral, circling the proverbial drain, picking up speed. This is going to be case study stuff in another generation. How to destroy a city...

These corporate handouts are also prohibited by th...

2015-11-06T21:47:14.638-05:00

These corporate handouts are also prohibited by the Indiana Constitution, but our judges simply read the words right of the constitution just like our U.S. Supreme Court. We are a nation of men, not laws. We have to stop lying to ourselves about what our country has become. "It's a Republic as long as you can keep it," Ben Franklin said after its adoption in Philadelphia. Americans are just too much in a haze to realize the Republic was lost decades ago.

Mayor Brainard has passed out more TIF money than ...

2015-11-06T21:06:05.087-05:00

Mayor Brainard has passed out more TIF money than Ballard. Mr. Chambers was given a TIF for Gramercy in Carmel but still couldn't afford to do what he proposed so he rehabbed the apartments in place. Developers love TIF. It is a cheap buy for them. A $10 or $20K campaign contribution gets them millions in taxpayer money. Just ask Mayors Brainard & Ballard.

I loved how the Star buried the $15 million TIF su...

2015-11-06T19:32:40.158-05:00

I loved how the Star buried the $15 million TIF subsidy near the end of the story as if it was an inconsequential detail.

What a thoroughly corrupt POS is this Greg Ballard...

2015-11-06T18:43:26.085-05:00

What a thoroughly corrupt POS is this Greg Ballard. The guy should be hauled off in ankle irons... but we all know it's not gonna happen.

Is this a payoff for a future job for the outgoing corrupt Marion County Republican Mayor Greg Ballard? This guy is just unbelievable and more so is the Council that refuses to stop the illegalities of this crook

No, it really didn't matter who got elected... it sure as hell doesn't matter a damn who your Councilor is... because it's all still there with more largess and corruption to come.

GREG BALLARD IS THE VERY REASON THE DEMOCRATS TOOK THE COUNTY. The. One. Reason.