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I’m way late to the party on both the Indiana Pacers bailout and the Indianapolis Water Company transfer/sale to Citizens Gas. These issues have both been resolved via questionable deals by our city, and, by most accounts, the taxpayer is the loser while moneyed interests benefit greatly.
These two deals are in large part responsible for my motivation to put this site together. Reading Paul Ogden’s “Ogden on Politics” and Gary Welsh’s “Advance Indiana”, most particularly, I became convinced that our city continues to be run by and for privilege. Worse, it was clear that the Indy Star and most other “official” local news media were not going to examine any facts of the deals if they did not support their pro-city positions.
If you haven’t already been following these blogs, please do yourself a favor and go back through their studied and persuasive coverage of these two stories. While both Ogden and Welsh consider themselves conservative, this very-left progressive found great common ground on these issues.
Again, that’s why we’re here, to do our small part to foster better awareness of the truth in our city and state government, as well as some of the large business interests that clearly have favored status when public money is involved.
