Jim Merritt: Governor has opportunity to shape state’s energy future
The governor is right to emphasize nuclear energy, in particular. Despite our industrial heritage and demand for abundant, reliable energy, Indiana has no nuclear generation.
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Jim Merritt: IPS must reinvent itself to serve students, taxpayers
While IPS continues to serve fewer students in its direct-managed schools, the district’s property tax receipts have almost doubled over the past five years due to increasing tax rates and property values.
Jim Merritt: Focus on expanding broadband, health care access
Anything that delays or limits deployment also delays or limits health care access and is inappropriate for Indiana.
Jim Merritt: Environmental policy that gives Indiana manufacturing a leg up
A border carbon adjustment would penalize imports from countries with lower environmental standards (e.g. China, Russia and India) by charging a fee at the border on the carbon emissions used to manufacture their high-polluting products.
Jim Merritt: Fighting crime is boring and complex … read on
About all anyone can agree on is, we have a “broken system” that is failing Hoosiers. Some don’t trust it to keep violent criminals off the streets; others don’t trust it to treat people fairly if they are arrested.