Pick an issue that the legislature has neglected for years - potholed roads, stagnant teacher salaries, oversized elementary school classrooms, unaffordable day care, Indiana's high costs of health care. The legislature just decided that all of those issues are less urgent and less important than building a football stadium for the profit of Illinois billionaires.
Teacher's salaries are not determined by the State legislature. Most potholed roads are the reasonability of the City and the County not the State. If the State wasn't involved in trying to control health care costs where do you think the costs would be? ACA was suppose to control those costs. Didn't see you condemning that approach. No argument that perhaps the State should not be in the business of building stadiums. Will see if all your friends in Illinois feel the same way as you do...
Hi, GJones. A while back I told you I would no longer reply to or acknowledge any comments you made directed toward me. Maybe you didn't see that comment, maybe you just forgot, so I'm breaking that commitment this one time just to remind you, so that you won't feel the need to waste your time in the future replying to me again.
I live in Chicago, but grew up in Indiana and went to Purdue so I started following you because of that connection. I think a lot of people in Chicago and Illinois in general are tired of the Bears' owner yanking everyone around. Let them spend their own money. IN may regret offering to help them.
I was interested in the story about passage of a bill that would mean colleges there have to get rid of programs that are 'low earning', defining them as earning less than those who just graduate from high school. Lots of missing information in that bill: earn less than which HS grad programs? Fast food restaurant workers or union qualified electricians and plumbers? What about people who decide to go into an area such as social work, which may be low earning, depending on the type of job you accept, but has obvious social value? No one thought this through, obviously.
You ask important questions. I've been wondering about the salaries of first-year teachers and how that might affect viability of education programs.
The thing with our legislature, though, is that they don't value education (because they hate teachers' unions) and they probably don't much value social work (let poor people pull themselves up by their bootstraps, etc.). Throw in that these jobs are largely populated by women, the rights and interests of whom our legislature also doesn't really care about.
Mostly their goal is to kill liberal arts degree programs and to get rid of tenured humanities and social science and education professors.
Pick an issue that the legislature has neglected for years - potholed roads, stagnant teacher salaries, oversized elementary school classrooms, unaffordable day care, Indiana's high costs of health care. The legislature just decided that all of those issues are less urgent and less important than building a football stadium for the profit of Illinois billionaires.
Teacher's salaries are not determined by the State legislature. Most potholed roads are the reasonability of the City and the County not the State. If the State wasn't involved in trying to control health care costs where do you think the costs would be? ACA was suppose to control those costs. Didn't see you condemning that approach. No argument that perhaps the State should not be in the business of building stadiums. Will see if all your friends in Illinois feel the same way as you do...
Hi, GJones. A while back I told you I would no longer reply to or acknowledge any comments you made directed toward me. Maybe you didn't see that comment, maybe you just forgot, so I'm breaking that commitment this one time just to remind you, so that you won't feel the need to waste your time in the future replying to me again.
I live in Chicago, but grew up in Indiana and went to Purdue so I started following you because of that connection. I think a lot of people in Chicago and Illinois in general are tired of the Bears' owner yanking everyone around. Let them spend their own money. IN may regret offering to help them.
I was interested in the story about passage of a bill that would mean colleges there have to get rid of programs that are 'low earning', defining them as earning less than those who just graduate from high school. Lots of missing information in that bill: earn less than which HS grad programs? Fast food restaurant workers or union qualified electricians and plumbers? What about people who decide to go into an area such as social work, which may be low earning, depending on the type of job you accept, but has obvious social value? No one thought this through, obviously.
You ask important questions. I've been wondering about the salaries of first-year teachers and how that might affect viability of education programs.
The thing with our legislature, though, is that they don't value education (because they hate teachers' unions) and they probably don't much value social work (let poor people pull themselves up by their bootstraps, etc.). Throw in that these jobs are largely populated by women, the rights and interests of whom our legislature also doesn't really care about.
Mostly their goal is to kill liberal arts degree programs and to get rid of tenured humanities and social science and education professors.
I don't usually think of Dave breaking international news, but here I am in
LA waking up to news of war from Based in Lafayette! Thanks Dave.