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Boilermaker. Dad. Former newspaper guy. Unofficial property tax expert. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

Fort Wayne, IN
Joined May 2015
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If you smoke a pack a day, Indiana's new cigarette tax will cost you $2 a day, $730 per year. If you quit smoking, you'll save ~$10.70 per day, $3,905 per year. Quitting is hard, but there's resources to help. Good for your health. Good for your wallet. quitnowindiana.com/
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Continuing the tradition.
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When I was watching them against Purdue Fort Wayne, CJ Cox was clearly on a different level. But if you had to ask me who the No. 2 contributor was on this squad, I couldn't answer. It felt like Painter was searching for one in these exhibitions but no one was emerging.
FINAL Gonzaga on Monday night in Vegas for the opener. ✅: Cox - 18 pts, 7 rebs ✅: Benter - 8 pts ✅: Jacobsen - 7 pts, 4 blks, 3 rebs
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Indiana and most of the other Top 10 Blue Collar states are also in the Bottom 10 for median household income.
Are Hoosiers the hardest-working people in the United States? A new study suggests they might be. REPORT: wane.com/news/indiana/study-…
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Voter fraud is allegedly so widespread and common that the White House has to offer a $1M prize to try to find a legitimate case and the Indiana Attorney General is just now prosecuting its first *ever* case.
Trump says he will issue $1,000,000 bounties to anyone who reports "voter fraud"
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Voters: "Affordability is a top issue. Prices remain high and making ends meet is a continuing struggle." Indiana: "Let's build a casino in northeast Indiana!"
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"Bray said the suspension of fuel taxes had left the state with an estimated $1.2 billion shortfall for road work." Who could have seen that coming except literally everyone?
Senate Pro Tem @bray_rodric tells Greenwood Rotary the redistricting fight was one of the most challenging periods of his life, and he stands behind the Senate’s decision. Also: a $1.2B road shortfall, and Medicaid is now about 24% of the budget. indypolitics.org/bray-defend…
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You'll also notice that Kyiv, which is hit almost daily by Russian kamikaze drones, is nowhere near the front lines of the war. Because it's a terrorism operation.
Replying to @TheStudyofWar
2/ Russian forces have made effectively zero net gains in 2026 at the cost of over 40,000 casualties per month since July and around 458 casualties for every square kilometer of territory that Russian forces lost.
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Cast my vote today. Several hundred people at Ivy Tech here in Fort Wayne casting ballots. More than I expected for a midterm. I cast a nice mixed ballot. Voted no on the ballot questions and no on casino. Ballard. Mix of candidates in local races. Left a couple blank. Go vote!
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I love Christmas Tree Cakes but it's not even Halloween yet, come on
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Didn't they already try (and fail) with this exact same thing with the Brenda Wilson/Alexandra Wilson thing in the Greg Goode primary?
The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's US Senate election if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in the state which could decide the balance of power in the Senate. cnn.it/4i52DPm
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Also voting against Ballot Question 2 about local judges. Every other elected is required to live within the jurisdiction they serve. I don't think this should be any exception. Or, if you expand the boundry, they must also expand who can vote for it. ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Publ…
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Pretty sure I'm voting against the bail amendment. Bail is so foundational to the US the Founding Fathers put it in the Bill of Rights. Judges already have tools to address risk and the potential for this to be misapplied/overapplied feels high. wthr.com/article/news/politi…
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Which message will resonate with the voters?
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HALFTIME 3️⃣ Boilers 9-of-23 from deep. 📈 Ended half on 23-12 run. ✅: West -- 12 pts, 3 rebs ✅: Cox -- 9 pts, 4 rebs, 2 asts ✅: Mayer -- 8 pts, 2 asts ✅: Benter -- 6 pts, 4 rebs
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At the Coliseum tonight for Purdue at Purdue Fort Wayne. BOILER UP!
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They wanna build a Bears' stadium right in that dark brown area, btw
Pretty striking spatial distribution of home price gains and losses in and around Chicago...
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A reason why Boomers want property taxes to go away and be replaced by income taxes:
33 US States fully exempt Social Security income from their income taxes.
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Terrible, terrible news in the video game world today:
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