tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post116899795570778443..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Daniels' Indiana Dream Not As Big As A California DreamGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169129649301861112007-01-18T09:14:00.000-05:002007-01-18T09:14:00.000-05:00Mitch needs to get a clue on higher education.High...Mitch needs to get a clue on higher education.<BR/><BR/>Higher Education needs to be held accountable. Four-year public college tuition and fees are up 35 percent from 5 years ago, AFTER adjusting for inflation. <BR/><BR/>This is financially unsustainable for students and parents. It indicates costs are out of control, there is no oversight or accountability, there is no correlation with return on investment, and that government has no concept of the problem.<BR/><BR/>College Board Press Release:<BR/>http://www.collegeboard.com/press/releases/150634.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169122232731982622007-01-18T07:10:00.000-05:002007-01-18T07:10:00.000-05:00A creative class exists and is prospering and grow...A creative class exists and is prospering and growing from IUPUI/Wishard/IUSOM to Methodist Hospital along the people mover route. Richard Florida's "water cooler" is alive and well in that neoghborhood. Other places in Indiana are the same and more are on the horizon.<BR/><BR/>World class research, education, arts, intellectual property creativeness, superb clinical care all coexist in this strip in central Indiana. And recent residential neighborhoods have been born and reborn.<BR/><BR/>Walk to the theater, work in a lab, visit a museum, exchange ideas, interact with a student... Its all there and growing.<BR/><BR/>The GBLT and local music are well represented. <BR/><BR/>I recently attended an outstanding musical event at the Walker Center. The audience was diverse in every respect. ON MLK Day I spent the evening at Attucks and listened to a simply outstanding Vietnamese speaker, son a black US serviceman as well as an 8th grader who belted out a spectacular song.<BR/><BR/>A few years ago this area was a brownfield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169060920312629512007-01-17T14:08:00.000-05:002007-01-17T14:08:00.000-05:00My grandfather told me that any man who has a comb...My grandfather told me that any man who has a comb over has no problem covering up the truth. Since Mitch has one, I'm going to assume the same about him.<BR/><BR/>For a man that's so keen on building alternative fuel plants, he seems to have no issue with carving up farms to build new roads. Where is that corn going to grow, Mitch, if there's nothing but roads and development left in this state? He's talking out of both sides of his mouth.<BR/><BR/>Our college grads are leaving this state, and all the Honda plants in the world are not going to change that fact. Not every Hoosier wants to work in the auto industry. <BR/><BR/>For every artist that comes here for cheaper studio space, 5 more are leaving for more open and greener pastures.<BR/><BR/>Yes, states with ocean-views and mountains, more often than not, have a higher cost of living. But as my friends in NYC often point out, they also have the higher salaries to match.<BR/><BR/>As long as Indiana wants to be entirely white-straight-family-friendly, and loves to dish out the corporate welfare, there will be no rise of the creative class. Creative citizens don't neatly fit into the family-first, pro-corporate paradigm.<BR/><BR/>Mitch can't handle the truth, in my opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169048507969037532007-01-17T10:41:00.000-05:002007-01-17T10:41:00.000-05:00I thought Bauer's hair piece was the worst until I...I thought Bauer's hair piece was the worst until I got the top view of Mitch's horrible comb over!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169032328884819512007-01-17T06:12:00.000-05:002007-01-17T06:12:00.000-05:004:15 is so correct.Good post, again, Gary.Mitch co...4:15 is so correct.<BR/><BR/>Good post, again, Gary.<BR/><BR/>Mitch continues to harp on the "structural deficit" he "inherited." I've reviewed state budgets. I don't agree with some of the priorities of past administrations, but there was no structural deficit.<BR/><BR/>He continually uses this hammer as a verbal "gotcha" to Democrats, and it's worn thin.<BR/><BR/>Just like the motor home, he needs to retire this obsession he has with pummeling Dems on the deficit.<BR/><BR/>It's aggravating, untrue, and given the Bowen-Orr Property Tax Replacement Credit shell game, extremely disingenuous for any Republican.<BR/><BR/>He's so gone in 08. And as a side note: I pray daily for the health of the Supreme Court. Hold on, fellas. Help is on the way. You can retire in 09.<BR/><BR/>And the whole canoe paddle thing was sophomoric. And embarrassing for a Governor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169025326386468532007-01-17T04:15:00.000-05:002007-01-17T04:15:00.000-05:00There will never be a creative class in Indiana li...There will never be a creative class in Indiana like the one the Governor wants because of the hostile environment the GLBT and creative communities experience. A national stir was created a few years ago by an article written by Richard Florida entitled <A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html" REL="nofollow">"The Rise of the Creative Class"</A> that determined that a vibrant GLBT and local music culture is necessary to have an active creative community. <BR/><BR/>With the Hoosier taste for corporate culture and hostility to diversity and tolerance, lack of a hate crimes law, and repeated attempts to outlaw gay marriage, there is no way in hell a creative community can thrive in Indiana. <BR/><BR/>Creative workers do not find this state livable with good reason and so long as Hoosiers remain hostile to original, creative thinking, they will remain in the dark, with no cultural taste and no future because their more tolerant citizens flee at the first opportunity they get to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com