We’re all tired. It’s been a long year. We need our leaders to cut the crap and work on addressing the challenges Hoosiers face every day – a better economy, improved healthcare, education for our kids. The General Assembly should focus on these issues, but the GOP Supermajority has a different agenda – they would rather fight culture wars and help their wealthy friends. The republicans that we sent to represent us aren’t solving our problems; they’re creating new ones for us.
Category: Local Politics
Ohio’s Housing Crisis
Ratios of Housing to Jobs in parts of Ohio are as bad as the San Francisco Bay Area Columbus homeowners have been celebrating news that their home values have skyrocketed in that last few years. The Columbus Dispatch in particular has been praising the local market, saying that homeowners are “sitting on a gold mine”…
How much should we pay public servants?
I’m suspicious of anyone who’s willing to do public service for well under the market value of their work. You should be too. I got into an argument last week on twitter (I know, I’m really doing this wrong) about how much we should pay public employees. I had read about Mount Vernon’s Assistant Law…