Been a Week

Yes I did take a week off from posting. So, some thoughts from the last week.

The City of Valparaiso continues, under Mayor Costas' leadership, to make dramatic changes to our community. Streets being totally rebuilt even late into November. Buying the dilapidated Couunty Seat for a major rehaul. Negotiating to continue growth of the business and retail region on the eastside. Westside utilities and annexations. Good job.

Of course, the downside to growth is that there are costs associated. So the developers in Porter County are not at all happy that one of the favored ways to gain access to money is to slam new home buyers with impact fees. Pound the new people that can't vote yet! Oh and the little known secret is that at the same time that $2,500 to $5,000 impact fees are being levied ... every municipality in the county decided to slam through a 100-300% increase in fees.

Yep, 300% in Portage, home of spending largess. Time to change some seats on those councils?

More on that in the next couple months. Pro-Growth and Pro-Jobs isn't a democratic or republican principle. We need some standard bearers.