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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Ind. Gov't. - "Vast government reform proposals raise prickly issue"

In her Sunday column today, Lesley Stedman Weidenbener of the LCJ reports:

The moment came in the middle of the press conference during which the governor's Commission on Local Government Reform was presenting its bold recommendations for change.* * *

This was a sweeping set of proposals.

And then the question was in front of them, compliments of expressive Indianapolis radio and newspaper reporter Amos Brown:

"Who sells this after today, knowing the special interests will stop at nothing to stop this?" he asked the group, somewhat incredulously. "Who is going to go out and educate Hoosiers?"

Long pause. Long.

What is missing is a "Part II" to the Commission's report, a blueprint for staging the implementation of its recommendations over the next few years, one step at a time, taking into account the real-world problems each of the various recommended changes will address, and the targeted opposition each one will face.

For an overview of the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform's report, see this Dec. 12th story by Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 16, 2007 12:13 PM
Posted to Indiana Government