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"The air show, conducted in partnership with the Gary Jet Center which started the show with the city 13 years ago, is a free event to the public and costs the SSCVA about $100,000 to $125,000 a year after all is said and done, down from the more than $400,000 a year it cost when the SSCVA took it over from the city." - From SunTimes a Chicago paper not from the one that is "devoted" to the region. Gues if it was union jobs impacted they would have gotten all the facts.
That figure doesn’t include the vendors who make money off of the 20,000+ who attend it every year. Good to see they won't be making money either.
All religions are a myth, continue to be the biggest Ponzi scheme throughout the history of the world and seem to be a place for molesters to hide and thrive. How can I prove it religions are a myth? Using the same test you have to say that Zeus was a myth ... that Odin was a myth and anything else you discount as being a mythical being in power. Provide proof first that those are mythical beings then prove that your myth isn’t.
Glad to see these scammers get exposed. But there will be another idiot who claims to hear the voice of god and will need you to send 29.95 per month to the church keep that connection going. All churches should be made to pay property taxes ... no exemptions.
Revoke their tax exemption status and force them to pay property taxes back to when the church was founded. The county could use the money to pay back Porter County.
Religion is just a front for child molesters it seems. Thank blank I’m an Atheist.
The New Deal served its purpose for the most part after the depression but then there were programs such as the CWA which ended up costing the government more than expected and evolved to the WPA. Interestingly the WPA was opposed by labor unions and so the WPA provided limited new skills to workers who were in the program. Sounds no different than the labor unions of today. Obama’s attempt at a New Deal type approach failed quickly and he had to continue to use the Bush tax cuts to keep the country out of a depression.
Why did it fail? Society is nothing like it was then. Technology rules this country not manufacturing and it shows in the number of people unemployed and under educated to get those technological jobs. Companies are learning that they don’t need as many people as they had previously and get the same amount of performance. People today expect the government to give them money for nothing in return and whine when they are expected to give something back. Companies and unions pay politicians to pass laws at the state and federal levels that suits their needs. Politicians don’t do what’s best for the entire country but what is best for their voters so they can continue to get re-elected, until their death or get caught doing something illegal, and get paid highly for little work. The problems in the world today don’t easily match any economic model from the past and why “well this should turn us around” doesn’t.
However the idea of a national network of roads needed for national defense dates back to the early 1900’s. In the 1920’s General Pershing created such a map at the request of the government and he wasn’t the Postmaster General. Also remember there are 3 "interstate" highways in Hawaii built because of the need to connect military bases, not post offices. One of the reasons for the I-69 route chosen in Indiana was to help serve the NSWC-Crane. So to say that interstate roads were never built for military needs and only commerce is well just another example of a posters inept grasp of facts.
There had already been a history of failures by the construction companies cutting corners to make more profit and wouldn't be surprised if it continued after those deaths nor be surprised if INDOT people were paid to look the other way either.
So Cline was added to the list of 112 other bridges in the state that were closed due to being structurally deficient in 2010. "Eastbound Cline Avenue-to-Riley Road ramp, [was] found to be structurally unsound [in November 2010]"
"[In 2009] there were nine post-tensioned concrete box girder bridges located around the state:
2 bridges on State Road 26 over the Wabash River between Lafayette and West Lafayette
The bridge on State Road 47 that runs through Turkey Runs State Park
The bridge on US 136 at the west edge of Covington
Bridge on US 50 east of North Vernon
Two bridge ramps on I-70 over I-70 and over I-465 and E. 21st Street
The eastbound and westbound SR 912 ramps over I-80/94
Reed added that because of the unique construction of these bridges with the post-tensioned concrete box girders, a separate contract was created as additional training and expertise was needed to correctly inspect these structures. "These inspections have been ongoing, prior to the closure of the Cline Ave. bridge. All bridges in Indiana are inspected at least once every two years where each component of the bridge is evaluated including the deck or pavement portion, the supporting beams and the structure beneath. "
Ask to see it. If the union refuses contact the Indiana Attorney General as a crime may be occuring. With Indiana now a RTW state, unions should be kissing their members butts and praising how great unions are to attempt to increase membership. Instead they are acting as they always have.
Unions never do anything wrong ... they said they don't.
Don't forget the accident either: "Investigators from the National Bureau of Standards for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) discovered several errors that caused the collapse of the bridge section. The most likely cause of the collapse was "the cracking of a concrete pad supporting a leg of the shoring towers." The failure of the concrete pad, built too thin, led to another finding; 1 inch (2.5 cm) bolts that were supposed to connect key stringers to cross-beams instead were replaced with frictional clips, but investigators did not find any documentation that supported this substitution. Investigators could not locate any engineering calculations supporting the pads as designed; worse, the pads were built substandard to the undocumented design"
And this is the likely answer to why Cline Ave wasn't able to be handled like the MLK bridge "Lawsuits against companies involved in building the ramp [involved in the accident and the construction of the span] were settled out of court, as no single party could be found to explain the discrepancies."