By Jim Sack
So, I am the neighborhood president. I take my job seriously and am trying to improve the area. Sidewalks are the issue of the moment here.
When I inherited the job a sidewalk renewal project was already underway to redo a few hundred linear feet of [...]
In part one I discussed the lead-up to transition: getting trained, getting a good job, and getting financially stable. In a state like Indiana, these three things will pay huge dividends when someone finally makes the decision to transition. I'm a firm believer in good, solid planning: having this groundwork' [...]
The president thinks he’s doing a pretty good job:
US President Barack Obama, in remarks aired late Sunday, awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office, stressing in an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey that there was still much to be done.
“A good solid [...]
When do you decide you won’t have enough people to do the job right so it would be better to just close up shop? Where and how do you draw that line? Two groups in two Indiana cities are making that decision in the wake of budget problems. The mayor [...]
Former Indiana Congressman Chris Chocola has a great write up on Human Events about the colossal fail that was President Obama’s “jobs summit”.
It was a foregone conclusion that the nation ignored the White House’s “Jobs Summit” last Thursday. Even the presidents’ allies acknowledged the afternoon confab of friendly CEOs, [...]
Not according to this:
A survey called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index reveals which states are happiest. The index includes questions about six types of well-being, including overall evaluation of their lives, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors (such as whether a person smokes or exercises), and job satisfaction. [...]
Challenge filmmaking is perverse. Take something that has to be done slowly and painstakingly, and add the element of speed and deadlines and kitchen-sink required elements to it, and you’re virtually assured of a substandard final product. Add creative people to the mix, who never met a job they were [...]
Garret Matthews, writing for the Evansville Courier Press, has an article on a hearing about the coal gasification plant contemplated for Rockport that took place yesterday. Industry representatives gave rosy testimony: the endeavor will be economically successful, it will provide jobs, and there will be no environmental problems. Community [...]
Nice work if you can get it:
As struggling communities throughout the country wait for more help from the $787 billion stimulus package, one region is already basking in its largess: the government-contractor nexus that is metropolitan Washington
Reports from stimulus recipients show that a sizable sum has gone to federal [...]
So I was reading The Hill this evening and while getting my political junkie fix, this story caught my eyes. Speaker Pelosi says “Americans could absorb increased deficit if it means jobs”.
From The Hill
Americans could be ready to “absorb” increases to the deficit if it means higher employment, [...]
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay, announcing the appointment of Gary Carter as new police chief — the sixth in four years — gets today’s “Huh?” award:
Clay says he didn’t demote former Chief Reginald Harris last week because of the crime wave, but that he expected Carter to end it.
Splendid doubletalk. [...]
OBAMA TO ‘FINISH THE JOB’ IN AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama has settled on a new course for the eight-year war in Afghanistan that he said Tuesday will “finish the job” and that he will announce to Americans after Thanksgiving (Lee, Politico). “After eight years, some of [...]
Many in today's soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we befriend our teenagers (literally [...]
The Allen County Right to Life announced today that Abby Johnson will be the keynote speaker for the 2010 March for Life.
Abby made news recently when she left her job as a director at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas when she saw an abortion [...]
