http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-edit-daniels-20110720,0,6156856.story
Good news from the state capital.
No, not the Illinois capital. But close.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will award bonuses to 90 percent of his state's 28,000 employees. Each worker's "efficiency dividend" will be $500, $750 or $1,000, depending on his or her performance. The money will come from a nearly $1.2 billion state surplus ? yes, surplus ? that Daniels credits in part to state employees helping find ways to save money.
And this isn't just a saga of Indiana competence. In state after state ? have you heard the latest from Wisconsin? New York? ? Republican and Democratic leaders are reinventing how all sorts of governments function, with positive results.
As soon as Daniels took office in 2005, he ended state employees' collective bargaining rights by executive order.
Good news from the state capital.
No, not the Illinois capital. But close.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will award bonuses to 90 percent of his state's 28,000 employees. Each worker's "efficiency dividend" will be $500, $750 or $1,000, depending on his or her performance. The money will come from a nearly $1.2 billion state surplus ? yes, surplus ? that Daniels credits in part to state employees helping find ways to save money.
And this isn't just a saga of Indiana competence. In state after state ? have you heard the latest from Wisconsin? New York? ? Republican and Democratic leaders are reinventing how all sorts of governments function, with positive results.
As soon as Daniels took office in 2005, he ended state employees' collective bargaining rights by executive order.
