Congratulations to the Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund & Council on receiving several grants in the 2010 grant cycle from the Marshall County Community Foundation! These grants are slated to further their efforts to preserve and protect Lake Maxinkuckee.
South Bend Tribune article here.
From Dr. Martin Regalia: Econ 101, Tax Facts: Where the $ Comes From in Free Enterprise, April 2010
As part of the program at the March Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) State Board of Directors’ meeting, we heard four of the five Republican candidates running against Brad Ellsworth for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat speak. There were three politicians, Marlin Stutzman, John Hostettler and Dan Coats. The fourth, John Bates, Jr., has not held political office in the past. This wasn’t a debate. Each candidate was allowed to make a short introductory speech and then they took questions from the audience. It was set up in half hour time slots, so we received individual presentations.
The political season is well underway. We’re only a couple of weeks from the Primaries and the rhetoric is already high. I have high hopes for some of the candidates I’ve heard from. I recognize the same B.S. from a lot of the others. I hear that this is the most important election of my life… among other hyperbole.
I plan to vote. In a few cases, I plan to vote for someone I think will do good things. In other cases I plan to vote for the lesser of evils, just as I have done in most elections. I’m hoping the mood of the Country is such that we hold them to their promises this time around.
I got an email from ASLA last Friday suggesting that I volunteer to speak at the local school since April is Landscape Architecture Month. In what must have been some kind of a magnanimous fit I fired off an email to the Culver School Superintendent volunteering to do just that. Wouldn’t you know it, April 23rd is Career Day at the the Culver Middle School and they were thrilled to hear that I was volunteering to speak that afternoon. Five 20 minute rotations of about 15 students each. Wow…