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Tuesday's Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority symposium shed plenty of light on both the need for regional unity and for educating the public on its benefits.

The most vocal critics of the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority see the government body as expensive and unneeded, if not downright subversive.

The nuts and bolts of consolidating transit systems running in four northern Indiana counties would be a massive undertaking and would create a bus/rail transit system unlike anything in the state.

What is the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority?

In my very first remarks to the board of directors of the Quality of Life Council at the Sept. 4 quarterly meeting, I shared the inspiring words of Australian poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, who wrote:

Donald Mason, 35, boards a bus in the wee, dark hours of the morning in the parking lot of a shuttered unemployment office in economically distressed Gary.

I don't have much time to surf the Web or visit Internet networking sites, but I was winding down from a busy day recently and came across a site where people were having some vigorous dialogue about

Public transportation has a long, fractured history in Northwest Indiana. Here are some of the milestones:

A visionary mass transit project known as FasTracks in Denver shows both the promise and peril of such endeavors and the voter referendums that launch them.

The Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority is undeniably at a crossroads. Porter County's secession attempt is short-sighted.