Lacy: Don't Squander Reform Opportuntiy

Indiana Chamber:

"Longtime Indianapolis-based business leader Andre Lacy is serving as the 2008 chairman of the Indiana Chamber board of directors.

Prior to the legislative session, Lacy shared his views on the property tax/local government efficiency challenge facing Indiana."

Pfizer To Cut 660 Jobs in Indiana

MLive.com:

"Six-hundred-sixty jobs will be lost by the middle of this year in Terre Haute, Ind., a result of Pfizer Inc.'s decision to stop production of its inhaled insulin product Exubera.

Saying it did not have another use for the specialized production operation at its central-Indiana facility, Nat Ricciardi, president of Pfizer Global Manufacturing, announced Pfizer's decision to cut staff in Terra Haute in a press release Monday.

Workers were told of the decision Monday morning by site leader Frank Foley. And they were told layoffs would begin in March, according to the press release."

Former Indiana Rep. McIntosh endorses Romney

IndyStar.com:

"Former Indiana Rep. David McIntosh, who had been an advisor to Fred Thompson's presidential campaign, is now backing Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination.

McIntosh said Romney 'has the vision to bring true conservative change to Washington and strengthen our economy.'
McIntosh had been volunteering with Thompson's campaign, helping pull together experts and proposals on various domestic policy issues. Thompson withdrew from the race last week after failing to catch fire with GOP voters."

Indiana Seeks To De-List Contaminated Waters

Alliance For The Great Lakes:

"Indiana seeks to remove hundreds of mercury and PCB-tainted waterways from a statewide list of impaired waters -- including several Lake Michigan tributaries – in a move to free the state of a federal mandate to restore them.

Using new methodology, Indiana's Department of Environmental Management proposes to delete more than 800 stream and river segments from the list, even as state regulators warn the public that contamination makes fish from those waters unsafe to eat.

The proposed methodology would no longer determine a waterway's impairment based on the existence of fish consumption advisories, a measure the U.S. EPA has determined meets the intent of the federal Clean Water Act."