Delaware County is thinking of one for its courthouse. Nothing new about these, I remember reading an article about them years ago and the idea interested me enough to do some minor research on them. I agree with the editorial in the Muncie Star- Press that can be found here.
What impressed me first is something that the Star-Press did not mention. That is the possibility of using a downtown of green roofs as a tourist attraction. If people will travel to see a tree growing out of a courthouse's tower, what will they do with a bunch of green roofs? The true answer to that question depends on how the plan is implemented and how well it is promoted.
Hoosier Demographics: Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying
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Ball State Economist, Michael Hicks, has a good column that I saw in the
Indiana Citizen entitled “What the census tells Hoosiers about the Future.”
I do...
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