Maintaining Indiana’s Strong Economy By State Sen. Daryl Schmitt (R-Jasper)? In recent years, Indiana has become one of the nation’s leading economic powerhouses as businesses look to invest in our state. Every year since 2017, the state has broken economic development records. This includes more than $39 billion in capital investment commitments in 2024, up…
Greetings, fellow citizens. My family and I are some of the families being sued by the state regarding the Mid-States Corridor. Along with many of you. I received in the mail this week a donation request from Senator Mark Messmer. I have personally known Mark Messmer and his family for decades. I have had several…
On Wednesday evening at 5:30 p.m., INDOT and the Lochmueller Group will be having an Open House at Jasper Middle School to present the Screening of Alternatives Report. Note that it is an Open House, not a Public Meeting, where they would be required to allow the public to ask questions. They are trying to keep the…
While tremendous progress has been made against vaccine-preventable diseases, in this era of global health challenges—from reduced funding to competing priorities to the proliferation of anti-vaccine sentiment—we’re at risk for the resurgence of diseases like polio. Although Rotary and its Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) partners have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide thanks…
On October 22, 2025, INDOT, the Lochmueller and the Mid-States Corridor RDA will host another Open House to present their latest report on the Mid-States Corridor project. They call these events “Open Houses” because they don’t have to address or answer the public’s questions as they would in a Public Meeting. The iron is heating…
Proverbs 14:4 says, “Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.” I love to read the Proverbs. They offer very simple, practical advice. The main idea behind this verse is this: “Do you want less problems or less product?” It is more convenient not to…
The last few weeks, people have been complaining about the traffic delays in Dubois County due to the roadwork on SR-62 from the Bretzville Junction to Rural King, as well as downtown Jasper. Well, if the Mid-States Corridor ever comes to be, get used to it. Dubois County will be a construction zone with traffic…
The Mid-States Corridor Project wants to build a new terrain highway through Dubois County to bypass our towns and save trucks a few minutes traveling to their destinations. They see all the open countryside and think that it is a perfect place to pave over for the benefit of a few with wealth and power….
“This land is my land, this land is your land,” but this land is not INDOT’s land. This land is here to support the people and the future; it is not here to be paved over. This land is the land God provided to the farmers to nourish us. It is not land to provide…
Based on statistical modeling, the Mid-States Corridor Project is forecasting hundreds of millions in economic development and hundreds of new jobs. As Mark Twain once famously said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”. None of the forecast economic growth is guaranteed. What is guaranteed: Hundreds of people will be forced…
