From Our Founder December 2, 2009 By Bob Wichlinski 100 South Editorial The improvement of CR 100 South in Porter County is not a zoning issue; it’s a public safety issue.  The Harper administration appears willing to forsake the protection of life and property for partisan politics.  This isn’t a landfill, the Illiana, South Shore rail or the RDA.  This is an entirely foreseeable tragic accident waiting to happen.  Must human life be sacrificed to convince them? Must the taxpayers bear the cost of a resulting lawsuit? Inevitably, every taxpayer in Porter County will be forced to pay to improve the road, only not with the help of $ 1 million federal dollars which expire on September 30th.  Porter County banked $ 14.37 Million in proceeds received in September 2006 from the lease of the Indiana tollway. The county has the money to satisfy any local match requirement and more.  The engineering is done and paid for.  My guess is that the laid off operating engineers from Local 150 living in our community would sure appreciate the work.  Anyone who believes that ordinances, road signs, police officers and prosecutors can throttle the wave of traffic resulting from the new I-65 interchange is living in lawyer la la land.     As always, I can be reached via e-mail at b@219.com Notice to Reader: The following are comments from readers. In no way do they represent the views of editor of the article or 219.com. We will not edit or alter your comments, but we do reserve the right to not post or to remove comments that violate our code of conduct. No comment may contain potentially libelous statements; obscene, explicit or racist language; personal attacks, insults or threats