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As a person who was displaced by this weeks floods, I felt it important to raise awareness that the damage caused to Hoosiers this week is not only the result of a freak weather event.

Decades of environmental negligence by Republican administrations has resulted in millions of acres of destroyed wetlands not being properly mitigated by DNR, many of which were supposed to occur along the White River watershed. The failure to mitigate these wetlands has a direct impact on the ability of the White River and its tributaries to drain floodwaters.

I’ll eat my words but not my shorts. Apparently, I was wrong about this, only in the sense that I honestly never expected it to happen. I wasn’t wrong about what it means though.

Apparently, if I’m reading the article correctly, part of the issue that held up the Arlington Heights proposal is that Illinois legislators wanted to work in a property tax rebate for the homeowners in the area. The Bears ownership of course didn’t want to agree to that because that means more money out of their pocket. So now, it may appear that Indiana Republicans are chalking up a big win and Illinois Democrats are posting a massive L, but in the end it’s the taxpayers of BOTH states that are getting screwed, all at the expense of the billionaire Bears ownership, who I guess are the ones taking down the win. Pretty much all other businesses in this country pay their own costs for owning or leasing the facility they operate in; I still don’t understand why it’s different for these people.

I’m happy for NWI, and honestly hope it does become an economic upgrade for the area. And I’m still also extremely skeptical that they won’t end up running into all sorts of problems with environmental due diligence and cost overruns that we’ll probably have to pay for.