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will you go 50/50 with me im planning on investing in an alpaca fighting ring for indianapolis if you wont help ill have to seek funding from the government.

Thank you for your honesty.... Your friends are indeed fortunate to have you doing their thinking for them. Shame they must lack the ability to educate themselves and draw their own conclusions

Not sure how you jump to extremes about trusting govt. People can desire city improvements being sometimes led by local governments without "blindly trusting government". Hard to have good dialogue with extreme comments and stereotyping. Help me again to understand on this proposed cityof Indianapolis project how YOUR tax dollars are being spent......

Yes, I believe I should have a say in how my tax dollars are spent. Unlike you I don't blindly trust the government.

In Morgantown (between Indian Creek and Martinsville), the Green Hill is reopened and has a good tenderloin. They make their own potato chips, also.

Indy has become a major convention city...but the city is short on hotel space. We have an amazing football stadium, with few restaurants around it. But we do have an old factory taking up primo space on the White River that could and should be used for something more beneficial than an eyesore. You call it a Trojan Horse....I call it moving forward investing in a city that needs it. I chuckle when people living outside of the Indy metro area complain about local government involvment and higher taxes. Doesn't cost you or Muda a darn thing. Don't come here if you are worried about a few more cents added on to your meal. My guess is that you don't come here much anyhow, so not sure why it matters one bit if the city is working to better itself.

I’m just going to say it and I know it’s going to make some angry…and some of you already don’t like me INDIANA IS NOT A FUN PLACE TO TRAVEL TO. Everyone knows it. Ffs I’ll never understand why Hoosiers stand in the way of making their own state/area more interesting/fun for everyone The smaller cities such as Evansville are struggling with violence and drug usage…the other destinations are either college towns like Bloomington/South Bend or places like French Lick which are slowly fading into being forgotten. And by reading some of these comments….it just seems like some would rather have nothing at all than to add just 1 thing that would make people want to stay in Indiana….and those same people are likely older and not even the intended audience for something like this. speaking anecdotally…a very large percentage of my classmates from high school and college have left the state for places like Tennessee and Florida. The ones staying I’ve noticed are often tied to factories/mining/agriculture with next to none in Healthcare/entertainment/or just entrepreneurship in any capacity. some of you may have no interest in projects like this and will never go watch a soccer game…but your grandkids and great grandkids one day might. You’re going to want your grandchildren to have all the opportunities life could offer…you’re going to want them to go to great school….you want them to fall in love with other bright creative minds who are driven to make a positive impact on this world….you want them to raise a healthy family in safe neighborhoods We all want these things, but if you don’t foster an environment that welcomes these things, the future generations are going be raised in hardships and struggles…and the kids who rise above those challenges are going to continue to leave to find success elsewhere

@Bobref Tab Bamford posted this one on his twitter.....pretty funny

This is really ironic coming from the guy who constantly shouts about the latest moral crisis to no one on the OOB forum.

If anyone can find a loophole, it's Rodney.

@Irishman, you need to start a 2023 topic. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot more of these in the near future.

Social Media Making Kids Depressed? Send Them Outside To Play: https://reason.com/2023/02/24/kids-social-media-depression-outdoor-play/ In a few months I plan on taking about a week long backpacking trip, in an area with little to no cellphone service. I can't wait.

Grow up. Sorry that you obviously have no family or friends. Or least none that will listen to you. Echo chamber and navel gazing to the max. Good luck.

My tax dollars? It probably won't effect them. But it will possibly effect the tax dollars of friends and family living in or around Indianapolis. And they need to be educated on the long term consequences of such government largesse. That they, their children, and their grandchildren will be paying for it for the rest of their lives. Heck, it was previously stated that taxpayers are still paying for the Hoosier Dome. Doesn't that raise warning bells for anyone?

Friend of mine did send me this , I know you have no idea how things play out at the beginning of the season . But Purdue did get a lot more home and home series with the bottom half of the Big Ten than IU did interesting to say the least 🤔😉

Huge S/O to NW for blowing an 18 pt halftime lead now the Boilers have a chance to clinch vs IU Saturday probably not gonna be a fun road trip to WL for the Hoosiers . oh well you get the last 2 at home in very winnable games win 1 or 2 in the Big 10 tourney and your sitting at a solid 5 maybe sneak to a 4 seed on Selection Sunday and let’s go from there !

hard to not say he is already arrived there, about every B10 team, Now Colorado and Coach Prime today, SEC, Pac 12, B10, B12. impressive stuff

So does Clarksville slide back into the abyss?

Couldn't agree more, and honestly, truer may have never been spoken in these hollowed threads

Sounds like your dad understood the assignment and was a great man. you work hard and with dignity to give more than you take….AND you pass down those lessons to life. I apologize if what I’ve said here today is coming off as altruistic or anything else but I’m just tired of seeing people gatekeeping opportunities for future generations because they have entitlement to the taxes they pay. Everyone pays taxes…some people just believe they are entitled to dictate how every dollar is spent. at $1B, the cost per resident for the entire state of Indiana would be less than $160 per person…and that doesn’t even factor in commercial properties that also pay taxes. I think I saw only the Indy area would be paying for it but the end result is still not that much money. Most people who have the audacity to complain probably pay more in annual fees on their credit cards than what this would cost over multiple years. that lack of perspective coupled with the entitlement really gets me

I remember talking with my dad when I was in high school, early 80s, one time we were driving back to visit my grandmother; his mother-in-law. The discussion turned to Social Security somehow and I asked him about the idea of Social Security going bankrupt. My dad talked about the ins and outs of the financing of the program and all the bits and pieces about it and how politics often latches on to it. As we pulled into my grandmother's driveway, I recall my dad's final thoughts on the subject ... he said, even if he never lived long enough to get his benefits or they went bankrupt he was content to know that his contributions were aiding my grandmother and the "folks across the street" ... my grandmother lived across the street from the "old folks home" where she often volunteered her time helping "those old people" who were younger than her. 🙂 My dad died almost 35 years ago as a young man ... and his Social Security payments are still helping my mom.

1) I’m not complaining. I’m the success story. The sad stories are our friends and family who took their own lives so early, the girl who at 20 was killed by a drunk driver, or the other young people who end up addicted to meth and either die from it or end up in prison….or the kids in Evansville who get shot and killed because of gang violence. I’m the success story to a long list of obstacles that I’ve overcome. 2) I wake up everyday and I mean every single day trying to prove myself right about people who want to flaunt their money around like they are better than me. I’ll just add you to the list of people who called me “Trailer trash” and people who wanted to keep me down. You have no idea how hot that fire is inside of me and how much I’m willing to overcome to shut people like you up. You don’t know me, you only know what I have told you. 3) you could say it was trauma bonding or whatever…but when Coach Hart took over Gibson Southern and made it into what it is today, it was the only success story I had in my life. I admired his work and dedication to doing things the right way and the football team served as hope for a bunch of poor kids working hard and winning in life. It’s why I somewhat obsess over the team…because they show every day what discipline and hard work will do for you. 4) I’ve considered moving back to indiana many times but the opportunity isn’t right for my wife and I. We both have so many family members there and we have talked numerous times about going back…but the time isn’t right. All of my friends and family still live there and I care deeply about all of them and that’s why I still care so much about what goes on in Indiana because it’s not just me this is about it’s about our friends and family and the kids down the street.

Hmm, you failed to address the debt issue. I'm sure that was intentional. As for factory work, my father worked at the Kokomo Chrysler transmission plant for 34 years, and was damn proud of it. It allowed him to provide a good standard of living for his family, and help put multiple children through college. Did it carry health risks? Sure it did. But all those non-factory, "white collar" careers out there where you usually sit in a sedentary position for 8-12 hours a day carry there own different sort of health risks, do they not? And my parents were responsible with their hard earned money, and decided to stay here. Sure, they visited places like Florida and Tennessee but they chose to live in Indiana. Just because you chose to flee the state of Indiana, and be part of the problem and not the solution, doesn't make you a genius.

There is a great market for soccer here. I have no doubt this new venue will draw 13 - 15k a match.

And you probably weren't raised in a household where between around 1977-1984 my father would go to work every day not knowing whether or not himself and others would be laid off and out of job by the end of the day, primarily due to company mismanagement. Or forced by that same union to take a pay cut during those lean years in order to help keep the plant open. And your obvious sour grapes concerning "Cadillac" insurance plans and pensions is duly noted. If you want a real "Cadillac" insurance and pension plan you need to look at what retirees from the Teamsters get. No, the UAW has been gutting it's members pension and insurance plans for decades. They are not what they used to be.

I wasn't raised in a household under a privileged union umbrella of artificially high wages, Cadillac insurance plans and pensions, but I'm opposed to taxpayer money being used on a soccer stadium also. Indy just isn't going to support soccer enough to get any return on this investment.