Elon Musk calls Indiana Senator Todd Young a ‘deep state puppet’ in now-deleted post
The tweet concerned reports that Young would not support the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence.
Later Musk backtracked like a baby lacking the slightest bit of impulse control.
https://fox59.com/news/elon-musk-calls-indiana-senator-todd-young-a-deep-state-puppet-in-now-deleted-post/
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Reporter Joe Hren asks: Convention leaders pushing expansion along, but where's the parking?
Easy-Peasy! Provide a great pedestrian area, lots of buses and bike-shares, and we're in like Flynn! Who needs parking?
"Architects presented updated renderings and floor plans at a recent CIB meeting. The refinements help get the project within budget...The expansion amounts to about 61,000 square feet"
https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/convention-leaders-pushing-expansion-along-but-wheres-the-parking.php
@bloomington_in
[#]CarsRuinEverything
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If Indiana accepted the seceding counties from Illinois, it would drop from the 14th to the 11th poorest state
Todd Huston invited those counties to join Indiana.
"If the secessionist parts of Illinois were their own state, they’d have the worst 25 years of population loss of any state in U.S. history. So, it’s pretty easy to see why these counties might be unhappy about their economic conditions. They are truly dismal."
https://commentaries.cberdata.org/1300/the-great-state-of-illiana-or-is-it-indinois
[#]HoosierMast #INLegis
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The world’s richest man tried to gain access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment system
"Elon Musk deployed engineers to the agency to find a way to shut off funds to various projects...become a focus for Mr. Musk and his team of aides at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. They have spoken to others about their desire to find dramatic ways to cut costs, including ways that don’t require congressional authority."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/30/us/president-trump-news#the-treasury-official-who-oversees-payments-resigns-suddenly
[#]oligarchs #criminals
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Indiana House May Freeze Transportation Grants to Localities
"Cash-strapped local governments could soon pick from a broader menu of ways to self-fund transportation infrastructure — including through contentious delivery fees or township surplus funds — but wouldn’t get any more financial aid directly from the Statehouse.
“We need investment and assistance from the state, but this legislation doesn’t include it,” said Ryan Hoff"
https://www.governing.com/finance/indiana-house-may-freeze-transportation-grants-to-localities
[#]INLegis #transportation
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On January 20, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration resigned, having been hounded out of office by American oligarchs.
Then, the administration fired the heads of of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.
And today we have the worst plane crash in fifteen years. Whoever could have predicted it? 🤔
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Indiana Strategic Highway Safety Plan
"Indiana’s SHSP is data-driven and establishes the goals, objectives,
and strategies to save lives, reduce suffering and limit economic losses that result from motor vehicle crashes
by advancing the vision of zero fatalities and serious injuries...Guiding this process is the belief that everyone should be able to use Indiana’s roadway system with the certainty they will arrive at their
destination safely"
https://secure.in.gov/indot/files/BR1_Indianna_SHSP_10-17-2022-Governor-Signed.pdf
[#]indiana #SafeStreets
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Kirkwood Avenue to close for annual Outdoor Dining Program
"Predictable economic stability and improved safety to Kirkwood.
“Students are able to walk through the streets. They’re going across the streets without worrying about cars, Ubers, DoorDash. It brings a sense of order and safety to that area,” said Costello."
My only complaint: "Some residents voiced concern over accessibility issues" but 40% of people with disabilities don't drive anyway.
https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/kirkwood-avenue-to-close-for-annual-outdoor-dining-program.php
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USDA invests over $9M in Indiana’s energy independence
This includes eleven dollars for useful solar panels and $9,000,000 for some sort of biodiesel nonsense. At least it isn't going towards coal mining, I guess that's something.
https://indianapolisrecorder.com/usad-invests-in-indiana-energy-independence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
[#]HoosierMast
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"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds; and each day a gash is added to her wounds" - Malcolm in Macbeth
[#]ShakespeareSunday
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Mr. Hogan Goes To Washington
"So, I picked up the credentials from the ... Inauguration Committee today and asked if there was a schedule. They were very hostile, to be honest, and I thought, “That’s weird.” Then it started leaking that all the ... inauguration activities, even the parade, would be indoors. Even worse, there would only be eight credentialed photographers allowed to photograph it."
https://bloomingtonian.com/2025/01/17/column-locked-out-in-the-cold-in-d-c/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-locked-out-in-the-cold-in-d-c
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @bamaq23
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Hottest year ever in Indiana
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/earth-roasts-through-its-second-consecutive-hottest-year-on-record/
[#]ClimateChange #HoosierMast
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IndyGo receives $149 million federal grant for Blue Line bus rapid transit project
"Officials said the 24-mile project will “provide fast and frequent public transportation” for one of the main east-west travel corridors in Marion County. This will include 12 miles of dedicated bus-only lanes in the “urban core”
The route will provide access to downtown, the Capitol, the airport and the zoo, as well as three high schools.
https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indygo-receives-149-million-federal-grant-for-blue-line-bus-rapid-transit-project/
[#]BusRapidTransit #Indianapolis
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What do you get when you cross a revitalized library bookmobile with a bookstore? A bookstore on wheels called Babycake’s Book Stack
“We want to have something that’s very fun and playful and colorful, but also include a lot of different cultures in it. I want everyone when they walk into the store to feel comfortable and say, ’This is a place where I belong and I belong here even if it’s not my cultural heritage month.”
https://saintpaulbybike.com/2024/12/13/classic-american-cars-and-a-bookstore-on-wheels/
[#]bookstodon
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Property owners in south-central Indiana pushback on Mid-States Corridor study
Brand new horrific highway that nobody, other than construction companies, wants.
"The corridor is a highway, planned to bypass Huntingburg and Jasper, and connect to I-69.
The corridor is set to connect State Road 231 with I-69 in the north near the Crane Naval Base. Proponents say it will spur economic growth. But some residents are pushing back."
https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/property-owners-in-south-central-indiana-pushback-on-mid-states-corridor-study.php
[#]PaveIndiana #CraneNavalBase
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"Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), a known weirdo and wild card, has already indicated she is unsure how she will vote on Friday"
Well. It's not wrong.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/johnson-performs-confidence-as-dems-vow-perfect-attendance
[#]uspol #HoosierMast
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Each day, 4 to 6 flights depart the South Bend, Indiana Airport for Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
"This lack of integrated booking infrastructure means that a passenger traveling from South Bend to San Francisco, for example, would need to acquire a ticket on the South Shore line to Chicago, and then book a separate ticket from O’Hare to San Francisco on an air carrier."
https://www.hsrail.org/blog/closing-the-gap-in-air-rail-connectivity/
[#]SouthBend #Chicago #trains
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Can anyone recommend the best ways to influence the Indiana Department of Transportation to do things besides make bigger highways? I'm not at all sure how to work with an organization of that size.
[#]HoosierMast #INDOT
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