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  1. There's no reason the two primary counties of NWI should not have some sort of pliable public transportation system. One of the biggest issues was the citizenry letting politicians try and run such a system. The RBA never knew how to run a bus system. Leave that to the one that's been doing it for 30+ years (GPTC) and instead of just focusing on city limits, extend out further than it does now as they go to EC, Hammond, Merrillville and CP but that's mainly to benefit its own residents. What's needed is cooperation. GPTC runs straight north and south when outside of the city and runs one east-west along 30. An effective way, GPTC could pull it off is use the smaller paratransit style busing in the burbs running east and west routes which sorely lacks. Gives teenagers the opportunity to catch the bus to the mall or movies or part-time jobs without having parents be the ones to constantly have to pick up and drop off. Instead of just being able to get out to CP, you can now get out to Valpo, Portage, etc for jobs or leisure.
    October 10, 2012 7:02 am on Transportation: Public transit ailing in Northwest Indiana
  2. Funny just reading some of these comments. Instead of automatically getting defensive, why not actually listen to what the man is saying. Life in NWI is like this: Schererville hates Munster, Munster hates Crown Point, Crown Point hates Valpo, Lake County hates Porter County, Porter County hates Lake County and everyone collectively hates Gary. It's a region where one community lures an employer and the remaining ones get jealous because it's not in their community. A community where public transportation is non-existent. Lake County is a county in which it expects the citizens of Indiana to pay for everything instead of implementing your optional tax like the remaining 91 counties to get things accomplished. That's the OneRegion you need to get away from. Attach yourselves to Chicago all you want (and yes, it makes since for Chicagoland and NWI to work together due to proximity) but Chicago could care less about NWI as it doesn't even hold its own weight in tri-state. Illinois takes NWI dollars through varying methods that helps Illinois but does nothing for you all. There's just a myriad of self-inflicted reasons DaRegion and Indianapolis are night and day in terms of economic development and opportunity.
    September 28, 2012 10:23 am on Daniels: Cooperation key to region's economic future
  3. @People, comments like that is what keeps Lake County as the laughing stock of the state. Lack of regional cooperation. What's good for one is good for the entire region.
    July 20, 2012 3:30 pm on $65M nuclear medicine company picks Gary
  4. Sad thing that happened. Unfortunately, all things point to someone being involved in something they shouldn't have been whether it was her or the husband. To GPS an exact address means it's not random, he/she/they were targeted and I would suspect for retaliation of some sort (you do not target people you know that are just as broke as you for financial gain since the gf and wife worked together). Over the time, the full story will rear its head.
    May 24, 2012 3:35 pm on 3 men charged in Schererville killing
  5. dingaling, you state we don't need more taxes and then go on to state that they are cutting funding in "good" school districts. The two cancel each other out. Education reform isn't free! It has to be paid for since no one is going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts. As far as school funding, the cost per pupil is derived from all sources and with any school district that isn't the true amount that trickles down to the classroom. What makes it to the classroom is but a small portion. To get a true gist of how school funding is incorporated, there is a document on IDOE Web site with true breakdowns for each school district. Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head but it shows where each expenditure is for. There are budget line items some school districts have that others do not such as GED and debt allotment, both of which GPSC has while Munster does not. It's the same with Hammond and East Chicago. It also takes into account lunch programs that are primarily found in your poorer urban districts like Gary and IPS that you will not find or find to the extent of such as Lake Central or Carmel. Yet all of that gets calculated as cost per pupil which also includes administrative costs; money that never makes it into the classroom.

    It's the standard war drum that gets pounded without truly understanding it. Kind of like the 1st amendment. People claim to always have it but don't really understand the intent of the 1st amendment which states, one cannot be prosecuted but that doesn't mean there aren't any consequences to what you say from someone or some entity that doesn't require the court of law (employer for example).
    May 08, 2012 11:06 am on Lake Central School Corp. says it needs to lay off 20 teachers
  6. And the finger pointing begins. The only ones taxpayers have to blame are themselves. We voted for a 1% property tax cap knowing full well the bulk of school funding comes from property taxes. Now school districts across the state are complaining right and left about something we all knew would happen once we decided to cap in order to save personal income. Now the same taxpayers are wanting the same level of service all while paying less. Teachers don't teach for free, aides don't aid for free and schools don't repair themselves for free. State budgets are dependent on the taxes it receives. It gets less, it provides less. Here's a notion, The district is well within its rights to ask the taxpayers for more money via referendum. Zionsville has a referendum today that will more than likely not pass. A cap of 1%, the district can easily ask for another 1% and everyone still end up paying less than the previous taxing formula the state used to use. Indiana taxpayers scream how they care about the children but at the end of the day, they don't care enough to shell out more money in order to provide the best opportunity for Indiana children to succeed.
    May 08, 2012 8:32 am on Lake Central School Corp. says it needs to lay off 20 teachers
  7. Clark wasn't ousted for being bad at his job. IIA is the only airport to make J.D. Power & Assoc. for excellence, ranked one of the best midsized airports in the world (top 3), all under his watch. He was asked to leave due to his excessive spending. IIA went from a joke of an airport to one of the finest in the nation. Call it what you will, but a bad job wasn't the issue with IIA. Of course regionites would never know that.
    April 27, 2012 5:41 pm on Mayor says airport adviser's hiring was her idea
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