[Southsider2k12]

http://www.laportecountylife.com/community...re-january-2017

[exsteel5]

http://www.laportecountylife.com/community...re-january-2017

Too bad this program is so discriminatory. If it actually was like Hammond's program it would actually reach the goals of increasing the tax base and more people wanting to live in Michigan City.

I agree with the discrimination that you must live in Michigan City AND you must be a property owner, because these are the people that are paying for the program, but why discriminate against those people that want to send their kids to private school or home school their kids. Hammond does not do that and their program is a huge success. Instead, to get this scholarship, we have to send our kids to the sub par public schools to get a scholarship. Many low income kids get the choice scholarship to go to the private local schools only to get screwed by this program to go to college, luckliy they can still get the 21st Century scholarship if their income is low enough.

This program will never reach its goals under the current rules of the program. It is sad that our elected officials cannot see that. Too bad we don't have elected officials like in Hammond that are forward thinking and understand what it takes to get people motivated to move to their community.

I give our elected officials credit for starting the program, it is too bad they did not understand how to wring out a success with it. It is like the old police station and N-D building. Big credit to them for building a new station and tearing down these buildings, but now they want to build something right in the way of our most treasured asset, the lake view. We need to move the last obstacle, the library, and open up that view from downtown to the lake. Have they ever heard the saying, you make a better door then a window (get out of the way), or did we learn anything from the planners forcing Franklin Square on us and what a debacle that turned out to be?

[Southsider2k12]

Too bad this program is so discriminatory. If it actually was like Hammond's program it would actually reach the goals of increasing the tax base and more people wanting to live in Michigan City.

I agree with the discrimination that you must live in Michigan City AND you must be a property owner, because these are the people that are paying for the program, but why discriminate against those people that want to send their kids to private school or home school their kids. Hammond does not do that and their program is a huge success. Instead, to get this scholarship, we have to send our kids to the sub par public schools to get a scholarship. Many low income kids get the choice scholarship to go to the private local schools only to get screwed by this program to go to college, luckliy they can still get the 21st Century scholarship if their income is low enough.

This program will never reach its goals under the current rules of the program. It is sad that our elected officials cannot see that. Too bad we don't have elected officials like in Hammond that are forward thinking and understand what it takes to get people motivated to move to their community.

I give our elected officials credit for starting the program, it is too bad they did not understand how to wring out a success with it. It is like the old police station and N-D building. Big credit to them for building a new station and tearing down these buildings, but now they want to build something right in the way of our most treasured asset, the lake view. We need to move the last obstacle, the library, and open up that view from downtown to the lake. Have they ever heard the saying, you make a better door then a window (get out of the way), or did we learn anything from the planners forcing Franklin Square on us and what a debacle that turned out to be?

This is a Democratic Mayor understanding that supporting Union jobs is a good thing, as is trying strengthen the public school system from having anymore funds siphoned off of it by the private schools.

[outsider]

I wonder if there is any talk in Trail Creek and some of the other suburban and unincorporated areas about annexation in order to qualify their kids for the program. That would be the ultimate boon for Michigan City - the addition to the tax base. On the other side, it might be too expensive as I do not know if all of these areas have sewer.

[Southsider2k12]

I wonder if there is any talk in Trail Creek and some of the other suburban and unincorporated areas about annexation in order to qualify their kids for the program. That would be the ultimate boon for Michigan City - the addition to the tax base. On the other side, it might be too expensive as I do not know if all of these areas have sewer.

I have never heard any interest in annexation, and I kind of doubt it would be out there. To me it would make sense. City and a lot of the surrounding towns are very much integrated at many levels, and it would make sense to have them integrated at the government level. It would give the area a bigger voice down state, instead of splitting the voice into all of these smaller pieces. The same would apply for budgetary considerations. To me it makes sense to have one more powerful entity with about 40,000 people (give or take) than the set up we have now. We are pretty well forgotten at all levels in Indianapolis right now.

That being said, I have yet to hear anyone say this was an idea or consideration.