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More work on West High Street

Flaherty & Collins construction team is expected to take delivery and pour concrete at its Whiskey City Apartments construction site on West High Street tomorrow, April… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close

No to school choice expansion; support k-12 public education

Terry Spradlin

The tone of the 2021 budget session of the Indiana General Assembly has been quite different from the last budget session in 2019 when K-12 public education leaders stood with legislative leaders to announce a state budget that devoted $763 million in new funding for K-12 public education. Fast forward to this session, and it has been one consumed with a contentious debate on the proposed expansion of school choice programs that devote significant funds to private education. Indiana already ranks fifth for spending of state tax dollars on private school programs, but now ranks just 39th in the nation for per-pupil expenditures for public schools and the more than 1 million students we serve—down from 22nd among states in 2004. Why this shift in legislative priority has occurred is befuddling, given that the facts neither support the need nor benefit of state funding for private schools.

Commissioners aware of landfill, have no say on development there

Dearborn County Commissioners

A statement from the Dearborn County Commissioners on the ladnfill expansion: “It has been brought to the attention of the Dearborn County Board of Commissioners that Rumpke has purchased 466 acres adjacent to the Bond Road Landfill located in Whitewater Township, Ohio. Unfortunately, no elected officials or departments in the state of Indiana or Dearborn County have any control, authority, or influence over projects located in the state of Ohio.