Working Indiana - Working for Democracy and Justice

 A “moral obligation” assures investors that, although there is no direct promise to fund this unlimited indemnity obligation from appropriations, the State will try to do so and it will be bound to try very hard indeed.  For, failure to honor the indemnity would likely poison Indiana’s credit in the bond market, bringing governance to the same precipice Indiana found itself facing in 1837.  This sort of indirect promise or suretyship has been identified as p

 Like many public/private collaborations which tout their ”businesslike“ approach, the Toll Road lease departs from the real world business model in an important way: lack of accountability.  Pouring concrete to ”jump start“ the state economy at the cost of eight billion dollars (Skurski’s estimated loss figure) is a strategy that will be testable only over time.  The politicians who have delivered this miracle will be long out of office before it

Indiana’s only toll road follows the Michigan state line westbound to Chicago, never straying much more than ten miles away.   Passing through 157 miles of mixed agricultural and recreational land until its terminus in “the Region,” beneath skies stained ochre by industrial haze, “The Mainstreet of the Midwest,” streams through the broken heart of the area’s once mighty industrial body until it bridges the waters of Wolf Lake where Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb stufffed little Bobby Franks corpse into a culvert just for the fun of it.

Tonight Jane and I spent about an hour knocking on doors. Sure it was cold, damp, and windy but nine more households signed up. We got some great stories and at least one volunteer who is a laid-off Nishikawa-Standard worker. She appears to have been partially transformed by the minority status organizing effort and now knows "we have to protect ourself at work."

Welcome! As a new season of walking through our community is just beginning, we have added one more way for all of us to talk about the issues that are important to us. Join us!