Legislature proves it’s unafraid to meddle in Indianapolis affairs

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10 thoughts on “Legislature proves it’s unafraid to meddle in Indianapolis affairs

  1. One point of clarity… in regards to IndyGo the suggestion that this is meddling is disingenuous. This is in fact a forcing of IndyGo to keep their word when they asked for more tax money.

    1. IndyGo didn’t ask for the provision in question … it was forced upon them by, you guessed it, the Legislature.

      And the progress they are making on setting up the means to collect said tax Is apparently not fast enough, so this provision has to be slipped into an unrelated bill with no public comment.

  2. Republicans say they hate big government … until they get the reigns and use government to control everything from people’s bodies to local cities.
    If they think they can do better, then they should run mayor or city council of Indianapolis. In the meantime, stay the f* out of Indy’s business.

  3. What can residents of Indy and other Indiana urban communities do in response to attempts by state legislators from outside those communities to suppress urban development and governance? What is and what is not an effective response?

  4. Interesting…State Legislators doing their job is now considered meddling? I suppose if all the cities can do what they want, then the counties will follow suit. So we should probably just disband the Legislature since there won’t be anything left for them to do. I think it is short-sighted (dare I say ignorant?) that the power hungry little munchkins at the local level feel it would be better to have a quilted hodge-podge of local laws differing across the state so no one knows what the hell the laws are in a hundred different jurisdictions in Indiana. State government’s purpose is to eliminate that. Next thing I guess is our local council will want authority to supersede Federal laws too. Oh, and by the way, the article is written with a slant indicating State government is overreaching by withholding funds from IndyGo. But the article did casually mention that the State wanted IndyGo to abide by their fundraising terms that IndyGo agreed to! I guess in these current times it is considered outrageous to expect entities to live up to their word. Maybe it is not so much that Trump is popular, but today’s liberalism is so unpopular.

    1. There was an excellent program yesterday on All IN on WFYI discussing the process of the developing the renter/landlord rights and responsibilities. It definitely sounds like an overreach by the state legislature.

  5. Elitist as we say ! Legislature has no interest in curing a wrong which is the comparable cost of licensing and registering a car and motorcycle of equal value .. The similar and most often higher motorcycle cost makes no sense especially considering the percentage of road used , damage to the road and amount of time and weather (5-7 months at best) in Indiana when riding a motorcycle is available…

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