Northwest Indiana Discussion

A few days ago, The Times ran an editorial in their onllne edition written by William Nangle. He started off with a boisterous command that Lake county MUST adopt an income tax. He defiantly acknowledged that his stance wouldn't be popular with the average citizen. He went on to say that any politician who isn't as enthusiastic as he is about enacting another tax, is not practicing "good governance" and should be impeached. Impeached he says! There wasn't a timestamp so you can't be sure if he was ranting shortly after "last call" was made, or if he just got an early start that day. Suffice it to say, his diatribe was "spirited". Then, in short order, it seems the editorial was spirited away from the site. Even the link says "the story can't be found". It was there long enough to get another point of view in the comments from readers. So was the editorial lost or stolen? Was the editorial removed by committee after the fact? Was The Times hacked, or like good hacks, did The Times reveal where their allegiance lies then reconsider if they wanted that exposed?

So this last piece of tripe got the axe too? I noticed the story about the Munster guy taking bribes also ended up somewhere in the ether.

Is there anyone at that paper that writes anywhere above the level of the average fourth-grader?

Don't you just love how these editors and writers--who love to view themselves as "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" mavericks who record the gritty truth and let the chips fall where they may--will run for cover when anything they write might ruffle the feathers of some local Democratic hack?

Amazing how they can continually delude themselves into believing that they are not part of a dying, buggy-whip industry.

yes, I read the same article and thought how hypocritical of the guy. nothing about accountability, just more money to spend for what has been proven a corrupt politicians in Lake County.

Probably the most forthright and candid piece ever written by Nangle at the Times. I guess he forgot he worked for a TEA-GOP owned news organization.

What are you jabbering about? The editorial is still there. Nothing has been yanked.

It was there, then it was gone, then it reappeared. Mind the gap. A date gap in the public comments on the editorial, while not proof that it was yanked, documents when it wasn't accessible.