"Trouble continues today as the Serbs have refused to provide services to the Croat community saying that the law doesn't force them to so they won't.
This is just the latest round in the ethnic troubles that have plagued the area for decades."
Sound familiar? If you read the Times ( www.nwi.com )it should; this is what the county health department is saying to the citizens of Hammond.
I guess step 1a of moving Hammond forward would be to convince the elected officials, at all levels, that working together is a good thing regardless of who gets the credit. This is a tough time for all the units of government, so do they work together? NO. Instead they seem to be trying to make us believe that the problems all lay with the other units of government, not their particular fiefdom.
We need to contact our elected officials, every last one of them, on a regular basis and demand that they work together, not just stand at their pulpit pointing fingers everywhere else.
And enough of the "busywork" grandstanding that really does nothing to help our economic situation. What am I talking about? See Matt's post about Carsons at http://msaliga.blogspot.com/
What we need is to know and see what is happening with the Gibson Yard intermodal project. This is the type of project that needs to be sold publicly, and to the industries that will use it, before it's built. Every week we hear about the project in LaPorte and other proposed projects, but nothing about Hammond. Are we losing out because of the desire for secrecy and the worry over who will get credit?
I certainly hope (probably in vain) that politics won't win out over good policies
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