You know there is something wrong in local government when an employee of a mainstream institution — such as a local newspaper columnist — calls for blowing up the current system and starting from new.

Writes the Northwest Indiana Times’ Mark Kiesling:

Indiana is ready for reform. If it does not reform, it can continue to expect the brain drain that now saps so much of the home-grown talent that is driven elsewhere by Indiana’s unwillingness to change due to selfish political considerations. …

I predict squealing like that of a thousand stuck pigs and righteous indignation that this removes the voter from the “public servant.” That is bull. How much farther removed from the voter can our elected officials be, the ones who fill their own cars at county gas troughs and cry like babies when they can’t get a county-owned car to drive?

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