Jan
15
Conservative Cafe Owner To Be On Vocalo
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Crown Point’s Conservative Cafe’s owner will be featured on Steve Walsh’s Vocalo radio program this afternoon to talk about Indiana’s tough voter ID law.
We have David Beckham, owner of Conservative Cafe in Crown Point, who is proud Indiana has the toughest voter ID law in the US.
BTW — I’ll also be on the program sometime during the 6 p.m. hour to speak about what’s happening in Northwest Indiana’s blogosphere.
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Jan
15
Encouraging Illegals To Invade Dune Acres
Filed Under Dune Acres | 5 Comments
Post-Tribune columnist Jerry Davich encouraged “illegals” aka taxpayers from other cities and towns to invade Dune Acres by offering a $25 gas card to a reader for crossing the “border” into the security-minded Indiana town.
Things must have gotten out of hand at the border as the interlopers sought to cross into the promised land in search of economic gains.
Writes Jerry Davich:
I wasn’t sure if a measly $25 gas card prize would fuel any region residents to hop in their vehicles Monday, cruise down U.S. 12 in Porter County, and see if they could enter Dune Acres, the most unwelcoming town in Northwest Indiana.
But it did, I’m told, and many readers even did it a day earlier after reading my Sunday column, immediately hitting the road toward the hidden lakefront community.
Trouble is, some readers gave the security guards at the town’s lone entrance a bad time, even calling them names, I’m told.
And that was never my intent.
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Jan
15
Disturbing Ethical Precedent
Filed Under Christine Cid, Lake County Council, government reform | Leave a Comment
The Northwest Indiana Times calls the selection of Lake County Councilwoman Christine Cid as president a “disturbing ethical precedent” because she is a county employee and will now have inordinate power to protect jobs in her department from cutbacks at a time the Good Government Initiative suggests cutting back local government and an Indiana government reform report states that elected officials should not also be allowed to serve as government employees.
This brings us to the main reason Cid should not have been named council president: She is a county employee and, therefore, cannot help but make decisions that affect her own department.
That is a major ethical no-no, and the rest of the council didn’t prevent it.
Cid is a supervisor in the county clerk’s office, overseeing operations in the East Chicago branch. It is difficult to imagine her being able to recommend eliminating her employees’ jobs — and possibly her own — as part of a reasonable decision to consolidate operations in Crown Point.
