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Healthcare: Right or Privilege? – A Smaller Indiana Debate

August 10th, 2009 by Jason Bean · 1 Comment

Smaller Indiana will be hosting their first, of hopefully more to come, debates across a variety of topics. The first debate will take place this Friday night at the Indy Fringe downtown facility.
The debate will feature two teams debating the question of whether healthcare is a right or a privilege.
Here are the teams:
Arguing for [...]

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Tags: Events · Government · Life Sciences

Officer Jones Tell ‘Em What They’ve Won

March 25th, 2009 by Jason Bean · No Comments

I read a story today on IndyChannel.com about the prices for speeding tickets not being printed on tickets anymore. Or at least not for awhile.
I guess the problem is that ticket prices are changing or something and we can’t expect officers to know what the ticket price should be. Are you serious?
If they get [...]

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Tags: Government · Indy News

Broke Unemployment Fund Fix – Charge Employers More

March 24th, 2009 by Jason Bean · No Comments

On the surface you’d think charging employers more for their unemployment tax would be the most appropriate thing to do to increase the amount of money available in the state’s unemployment.
Here’s the challenge.
The Senate Republican plan would raise the maximum rate to 8.2 percent. The taxable wage base would increase from $7,000 [...]

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Tags: Government · Indy Business

Colts Helping Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers

March 19th, 2009 by Douglas Karr · No Comments

Click through if you don’t see the video, Colts Pass It On Video.

The Mission:
Hoosier hospitality is inherent in all of us. It’s caring on a personal level. It’s performing random acts of kindness. It’s giving a ride to a friend, helping a sick neighbor or simply buying a stranger a cup of coffee. In these [...]

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Indy Mayor’s Action Line

March 4th, 2009 by Jason Bean · 7 Comments

Do you have a complaint about something that you need someone with a little bit more clout than you can muster.
This time of year the thing that we seem to be finding more of is pot holes and you can visit the Indy Mayor’s Action Line and report a pothole.
You can report more here [...]

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Tags: Government · Indy Neighborhoods · Indy People

Are You Friends with Mayor Ballard and Governor Daniels

January 18th, 2009 by Jason Bean · No Comments

Browsing through the friends of a friend on Facebook I noticed he was friends with Mayor Greg Ballard and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
If you’re in Indianapolis, are you friends with your local politicians? Are they on Facebook?
President Elect Barack Obama took politicians using the Internet and social media to a new high. If politicians were [...]

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Tags: Government · Indy People