Archive for April, 2009
I sat in on Dale Tumey’s Land Use sub-committee tonight. For over an hour they examined maps, discussed options and finally came up with a possible proposal. Their task? Define the rural district of a merged Greenwood and White River Township. During this period they considered trying to include as many farms in unincorporated White [...]
Governor Mitch Daniels said if an 1800′s era Indiana resident came back today all they would recognize about the state would be the form of its local government. When the reorganization effort began in White River Township and Greenwood I had hope that the study committee would actually study options for local government and take [...]
At Thursday nights meeting of the Planning and Land Use subcommittee rural residents of White River Township made some things perfectly clear, they don’t “trust politicians from Obama on down” and they aren’t very fond of Greenwood, or its mayor, either. I won’t list all the comments. It was announced at the start of the [...]
The following questions were submitted in advance to the Planning and Land Use subcommittee but were not all addressed. Please understand that the responses listed below the questions are mine, not necessarily fact but at a minimum well thought out opinion. If you disagree we welcome your comments, thoughts of especially factual answers. 1) What [...]
This letter by Cindy Jarvis, Vice President of the Bargersville Town Council, was published in today’s Daily Journal. Since she is a public official, we thought our readers would also be interested in what she has to say. Litigation is a horrible substitute for government in a democratic society. In my view, there is nothing [...]