FLOYD COUNTY: New Albany police chief, sheriff have different views on combining police protection; Mills supports a merger of departments, by Daniel Suddeath (Tribune)
... But the state push — primarily from Gov. Mitch Daniels — to consolidate public services is the reason New Albany City Council President John Gonder said his “knee-jerk” reaction to a merger is opposition.
“I don’t want to be led around by what [Daniels] thinks local government should be,” Gonder said.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
More such heresy entirely necessary where St. Daniels is concerned.
Something said by city council member John Gonder was buried a few paragraphs down, but is sufficiently prescient to see the light of day.
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We have a tremendous amount of work ahead to rebuild our public institutions and commons; work that will only be made more difficult via two additional years of our governor and his ideological toadies trying (with some success) to destroy them.
Gonder's quote is perhaps the most important statement of purpose uttered by a local/regional elected official this year, as it suggests step one of a long walk back. Like any old house restoration, you often have to start the doing by undoing what the previous owner did.
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