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Indiana Companies to Watch celebrates high-performing, second-stage companies in the state. Known for their performance in the marketplace, innovative products, unique processes or philanthropic actions, these companies represent a wide range of industries from all corners of Indiana.

This is not an award of the “top” or “best” companies — the companies selected each year make a point about Indiana’s diverse economic landscape. They make an astounding impact on the state’s economy by collectively providing thousands of jobs and contributing millions of dollars of revenue. Do you know of a company that’s worth watching? Nominate that company. If yours is such a company, apply directly.

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Global Warming is killing the planet. So our brain trust is congress is looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions. So they are proposing Cap and Trade.

A key element in Cap & Trade proposals to limit greenhouse gases is how to allocate carbon-dioxide emissions allowances to companies.

Proposals include a government-run auction, which would generate revenue for the U.S. Treasury.

But a detailed industry-backed blueprint unveiled last week calls for a significant number of emissions allowances to be given to companies as free allotments, which would curb the cost of compliance and mitigate price increases for consumers.

While both proposals would likely mean higher electric costs for utilities, relying solely on a government auction would mean dramatically higher rates, according to Duke Energy, which has about 1.3 million electric customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

Duke played a key role in developing the blueprint for the allotment program presented to Congress by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of 32 corporations, including General Electric, DuPont and General Motors.

More than 95 percent of the electricity Duke sells in the local region is from carbon-dioxide producing coal-fired generating plants.

An analysis Duke Energy did last summer showed that an initial $30-a-ton carbon emission price would cost the utility an additional $629 million a year in 2012 when fully effective, and mean a 35 percent rate increase for industrial, commercial and residential customers.

A $44-a-ton price would cost $864 million and mean a 48 percent rate increase, said John Stowell, vice president of environmental policy for Duke Energy Ohio.

So can you afford a 35 to 48% increase in your home heating bill? How are the poor going to pay for this?

2008 was the coolest year in over a decade. 2009 right now is well below the normals. So are we warming or cooling?
See the source:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090118/BIZ01/901180334/1076/rss01
Dems pushing hard for global warming regulations:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95NNE8O0&show_article=1

yes it will. i listened to one of the top meteorologist in the nation say that it has been calculated to add about 375.00 per month to the average residential electicity bill. this is not including the industrial sectors that are already in dire straits. many of the leading scientists are changinging the mind and are becoming more worried about global cooling now. i farm corn, cotton and soybeans in the southern u.s. and the last 2 springs we have set record lows in april and records for the latest freeze date. our corn was burned to the ground by late freezing temps. the last 2 years. the meteorologist that spoke said that global warming is crap. actually the last 2 years have been cooler than average for the usa. there are proposals by liberal democrats to tax livestock for farting out green house gases, does this mean that one day we tax humans for farting and if so will we need fart police to ticket us for farting and destroying the planet?

As far as I can tell, this is the only video clip on Youtube of an actual revenue trip on a working caboose on a class 1 railroad. And of course, cabooses are no longer used on railroads, for the most part, so this is really valuable history. This is a movie I made of an inspection trip on the Hamilton Subdivision from MP 68.8 Salters, Indiana to MP 122.4 State Street Yard on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 17, 1985. I was the track supervisor on this territory from July 1982 to June 1985, and it was my responsibility to make an occasional train ride over the territory and get an idea of the condition of the track. So on this day, I had Charlie Hutchins, a track man who acted as my office istant, to drive me in my hirail truck out to Connersville, Indiana (my territory went from just outside of Hamilton, Ohio to Marshall, Indiana, about 150 route miles).

By some kind of coincidence, the westbound train I boarded happened to have one of Chessies first female locomotive engineers Jackie Clark. I believe I had met her once before. As her train arrived, I think I saw her in the window of the locomotive (my memory is a bit hazy as this trip took place over 24 years ago). I am going to guess she had 3 units, probably GP 40s or the like, and a fairly long empty grain train with a smattering of other freight; it was likely near-on a mile long. The conductor on the caboose was J. Bandy. I didnt know him very well, but like all working stiffs on this territory, he was quite friendly. This crew started their journey in Cincinnatis Queensgate Yard, and would complete the trip at Moorefield Yard on the west side of Indianapolis.

The caboose had a cupola, which I think is somewhat unusual for Chessie; most cabooses had the bay window type. I liked cupola rides the best because the view up top is better and more interesting, plus the novelty of climbing up into position. I dont think the railroads liked them in the later years because of the risk of injury getting up into the cupola, in a vehicle prone to very sudden stops and starts.

The movie starts just outside of Connersville, headed west to Indianapolis. The first thing to notice are new crossties distributed along the side of the track. We had unloaded our allotment of new ties that summer, expecting to install them in the track. Unfortunately our production tie gang lacked the productivity to get them in before winter and the gang was cut off. The track freezes in the winter and tie installation is almost impossible, so every year the production gangs are laid off. Also note the pole line, still in use and in reasonably good shape. Is it still there today? Perhaps one of you train fans can post a comment about it.

The scene than changes to show the interior of the caboose. Then I get up in the cupola and start filming out the window. Note the grain hopper in front of the caboose; it looks like B&O 601686. The camera than pans across the way and gives a shot of Conductor J. Bandy. Then at 00:39 the train starts crawling up the hill and we get a nice curve shot, showing a couple of gons mixed in with the grain empties. At about 1:00 the camera view is out the back door, and you can hear a flat wheel. This territory is predominantly 115 RE continuously welded rail, so there shouldnt be any clickety-clack. At 1:14, the camera is pointed almost straight down off the rear deck of the caboose, looking down along the side of a trestle we are crossing over. And then the camera pans over and views someones trophy house. At 1:36, we seem to be really crawling, and the flat wheel is helpful in determining how fast we are going.

At 1:46 you can see a high tension line adjacent to the pole line. This is a remnant of the interurban railway (The Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company or I&CT) that ran parallel to the Hamilton Subdivision all the way to Indianapolis from Connersville. At 1:56, the camera is back in the doorway, but the blowing snow (picked up by the train, not falling from the sky) has landed on the camera lens and melted. The next scene is another interior shot. At 2:22 you can definitely see the I&CT roadbed and bridge abutments. Then as we pull into Rushville, there is a shot of bridge piers from the I&CT. At 2:42, we begin to see the old IC&T powerhouse and car shop, then a nice shot looking right down Main Street. Next up at 2:58 is a view of the old Rushville Depot. I dont recall that we ever used this building for anything, or that I even entered it.

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HARRISBURG – Gov. Ed Rendell on Tuesday threatened to withhold state aid to help doctors and other health care providers pay for their medical malpractice insurance unless lawmakers also act on his proposal to expand state health insurance for adults.
"I believe the best and highest use … is to link (the surplus) to health care for all Pennsylvanians," Rendell said during a news conference.

"Disrupting a program designed to retain and attract doctors is a very poor policy choice when we are deeply concerned about health care access and quality," Sen. Gib Armstrong, R-Lancaster.
"Equally disturbing is the governor’s effort to target the MCARE fund as a revenue source for the universal health care proposal," said Don White, R-Indiana, chairman of the Senate’s Banking and Insurance Committee. "The approximately $400 million surplus in the fund is obviously attractive, but raiding MCARE to pay for the universal health care plan raises several red flags.

I think he is trying to do something that is not lawful. If the money was being collected to promote doctor availability in the state, how can he use it to extort the legislature???

The city is laying-off 15 cops (saving 60k each) the county is letting go 29 deputies (72K on avg each).

This is a HUGE savings to the Tax-Payers and will help our community to balance a shrinking budget.

Due to a population decrease over the past 10 years and a lower crime rate that mirrors that change….it is much needed!

The Other benefit: Less non-sense ticket!

If any of you have spent some time in your local traffic court as I have, you may notice these tickets are nothing but revenue enhancement.

Prime example: My daughter received a ticket over in Indiana 2 Months ago, she was doing 72 in a 65 and got dinged for $175. She just paid it.

but get this: She gets a letter from the State of Indiana saying that for $50 more they won’t let tell her home State know so she won’t get any points on her license.

Makes you wonder why they don’t wear mask when they rob us like this.

The one benefit I can see is…….LESS tickets, that’s money they can keep for their families, pay bills, buy groceries etc.

what other benefits can you think of?

dear god, that is extortion! They are telling you to cough up 50 dollars on top of the original ticket or they will tattle-tale on you.
The entire town, judges, county and mayor and lawmakers deserved to be in prison for 30 years for that because it’s not just 50 dollars. It’s fifty dollars times however many times they try this.

You should write to the newspapers and politicians , and include a photocopy of their criminal letter of extortion.

The buildup to a special session of the Indiana General embly began with legislators from both parties still at odds with the Daniels administration.

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1. What was the State of Indiana’s average annual growth rate for this period in Own Source Revenue, not adjusted for inflation?

2. Compute the revenue for each year adjusted for inflation.

3. What was the State of Indiana’s average annual growth rate for this period in Own Source Revenue adjusted for inflation?

4. How much Own Source Revenue did the state generate in 1980 in 1990 dollars?

6. How much Own Source Revenue did the state generate in 1990 in 1980 dollars?

Information for question:

Year Own Source Revenue GDP Price Index (2000 = 1)
1977 2993635 0.4233
1978 3358259 0.4518
1979 3681497 0.4882
1980 3895872 0.5310
1981 4246501 0.5830
1982 4511507 0.6229
1983 4880435 0.6504
1984 5722328 0.6744
1985 6280627 0.6963
1986 6652955 0.7125
1987 7129008 0.7311
1988 7752472 0.7541
1989 8621571 0.7834
1990 9160236 0.8125
1991 9603560 0.8430
1992 10954692 0.8642
1993 10850009 0.8838
1994 11767171 0.9028
1995 12821280 0.9218
1996 12799794 0.9395
1997 13775701 0.9559
1998 13933049 0.9675
1999 14668555 0.9802
2000 15504786 1.0000
2001 15171127 1.0236
2002 14088343 1.0432

Q1. 6.39% (CAGR calculator)

Q2. OSR / GDP Index

Q3. 2.8% (CAGR calculator)

Q4. $5,961,549 ((3,895,872/(.5310/.8125))

Q5. $5,986,691 ((9,160,236/(.8125/.5310))

Beverly Gard & Terry Lee Michael – Indiana Senate District 28 – Spring GOP Primary Election – videotaped at The New Castle Courier-Times on April 10, 2008

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please tell me why its historic when the den’s have a woman to vote for yet when McCain does it it disrespectful to woman? Think about it if us republicans where so disrespectful to woman would we really have so many of them out there? let me name a few
Susan Collins – Maine

Elizabeth Dole – North Carolina

Kay Bailey Hutchison – Texas

Lisa Murkowski – Alaska

Olympia Snowe – Maine

U.S. CONGRESS

Michele Bachmann – Minnesota

Judy Biggert – Illinois

Marsha Blackburn – Tennessee

Mary Bono – California

Ginny Brown-Waite – Florida

Shelley Moore Capito – West Virginia

Barbara Cubin – Wyoming

Thelma Drake – Virginia

Jo Ann Emerson – Missouri

Mary Fallin – Oklahoma

Virginia Foxx – North Carolina

Kay Granger – Texas

Candice Miller – Michigan

Marilyn Musgrave – Colorado

Sue Myrick – North Carolina

Deborah Pryce – Ohio

Cathy McMorris Rodgers – Washington

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – Florida

Jean Schmidt – Ohio

Heather Wilson – New Mexico

GOVERNOR

Linda Lingle – Hawaii

Sarah Palin – Alaska

M. Jodi Rell – Connecticut

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Carol Molnau – Minnesota

Becky Skillman – Indiana

SECRETARY OF STATE

Jan Brewer – Arizona

Beth Chapman – Alabama

Karen Handel – Georgia

Betty Ireland – West Virginia

Terri Lynn Land – Michigan

STATE TREASURER

Kay Ivey – Alabama

Lynn Jenkins – Kansas

Kelly Schmidt – North Dakota

Sarah Steelman – Missouri

STATE AUDITOR

Rita Meyer – Wyoming

Samantha Shaw – Alabama

Mary Taylor – Ohio

STATE COMPTROLLER

Susan Combs – Texas

Donna M. Jones – Idaho

CHIEF STATE EDUCATION OFFICIAL

Kathy Cox – Georgia

Suellen K. Reed – Indiana

COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE

Sandy Praeger – Kansas

COMMISSIONER OF LABOR

Cherie Berry – North Carolina

CORPORATION COMMISSIONER

Kristin Mayes – Arizona

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER

Angela Elizabeth Speir – Georgia

Susan E. Wefald – North Dakota

RAILROAD COMMISSIONER

Elizabeth A. Jones – Texas

2004
President George W. Bush appoints Dr. Condoleezza Rice to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, making her the first African-American woman nominated to that position.

2nd he picked her because she votes pro life she cut property tax’s in alaska she gave oil company revenue to the people of alaska she wants to dill supports the war and the right to bear arms she also fought corruption in big oil and she has the same values as McCain and is 100% Republican that is why he picked her people!

3rd I think she scares the hell out of you dem’s lol

I agree with you.

On another note.
These people need to get over this Hilary thing. Her husband did not take care of the "problems" he needed to when he first took office even though he had the resources in place. He also messed up big time with Monica in the oval office. Bill hurt her chances at the white house. That is the bottom line.

Hilary is a VERY good and qualified woman that will give Palin a run for her money in 2012.

I just found I have 18 tax warrants for back sales tax from a business I did own but has been closed.The taxes are for the years I was not in business and the Indiana dept of revenue says they never got my BC100.I did resend all info back through my tax agency and now I am being hit up by collection agency using strong arm tactic’s.The tax debt is over $20000 for the years I was closed and my tax preparer said this should be taken care of when they(In dept of rev) get my information.

The collection agency says you are refusing to pay and we can garnish you pay(I am on SSI) and I cannot afford any trouble.They also claim I am free loading and just wont pay my bills is all.The intimidation is getting to me!

I dont owe this money but the paper work must have not been processed yet what can I do!

Tell the collection agency to pound sand and stop calling you. Have your accountant contact the state and call off the dogs.

Collection agencies are all bark and little bite. They can’t sue without proof of debt and in your case there won’t be any. They cannot garnish wages (and SSI cannot be touched anyway) without a court order. They must stop phone calls when you tell them to do so, though they can keep up the written collection campaign via mail. Just forward their demands to your accountant and let him or her deal with it. Or just ignore it if the issue really has been cleared up by your accountant.

Once you get confirmation that the issue has been settled with the state, send them a copy of the proof and tell them that you will turn it over to your attorney if they keep making hollow threats about a non-existent issue.