Ed DeLaney: Valuing incumbency over leadership
Instead of keeping taxes low for everyone, the dynamic has been changed to keeping taxes low for those who have assets.
Rep. Ed DeLaney / Special to IBJ
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Ed DeLaney: Will Indiana leaders offer health care safety net?
Until the passage of the Affordable Care Act, our regulation was a very light touch.
Ed DeLaney: Two slips offer insight into GOP motivation
Public concern about favoritism is increased when there has been no public testimony, no amendments allowed for the minority, no witnesses, and no public lobbying.
Ed DeLaney: A legislative special session is doubly unnecessary
The Legislature is not as transparent as it should be on the best of days.
DELANEY: There’s nothing super about this supermajority
We did little harm this year because we did so little.
DELANEY: It’s time to hold government to account
We rarely look back and report on the consequences and costs of programs we au-thorize or administer.
DELANEY: The long view: Licensing makes sense
The law requiring a gun license is supported by logic. Weapons can be dangerous and attention needs to be paid to who has them and how they are used.
DELANEY: Family impact statements would be waste of money
The state could direct $10 million to reducing childhood poverty and require that “family impact statements” be devised as to proposed regulations. The result would be that poverty would be alleviated by the $10 million minus the cost of the impact statements and the cost of the inevitable litigation about them.
DELANEY: Teachers, working class will reject austerity world view
Union leaders will organize their get-out-the-vote efforts at a far higher level than in the past.