Ask the Mayor
A weekly program where mayors from Bloomington, Columbus, and Terre Haute answer questions about your community. We also delve into new and long-term city topics.
The show airs on WFIU on Wednesday mornings at 6:45 AM and 8:45 AM
- First Wednesday of the month: Columbus Mayor Mary Ferdon (R)
- Second Wednesday of the month: Terre Haute Mayor Brandon Sakbun (D)
- Third Wednesday of the month: Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson (D)
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"As we lose revenue across the board from our two big sources, which are income tax and property tax, then something has to go away." - Mayor Mary Ferdon
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"I don't care what party you're in. People should choose their representatives. It is not the other way around. What's even more frustrating is, where was the special session to address these out-of-control utility bills from private companies?" - Sakbun on redistricting -
"We've got great employees here at Columbus, and we have police and fire are some of the best in the state, so I have no complaints. I'm really proud of the work that's been done this year." - Mayor Mary Ferdon -
"Good government does not need to waste its time on party politics. We need to be governing the state or the city as the case might." - Mayor Kerry Thomson on redistricting -
"At the mayoral level, there's only so many levers you can pull as state, federal and frankly, international policies and failures really combine." - Mayor Brandon Sakbun -
"Just hoping that the federal government can get their act together and figure this out quickly or a lot of people are going to be hurt." - Ferdon on government shutdown -
"I think trust absolutely is earned, and if you have a values conflict with someone, it's always best practice to talk to that person. And there has not only been no outreach, but there's been no response." - Mayor Thomson on city council trust issues -
"Local solutions to local problems is the way to go, and we want to bring a proven strategy to folks at the higher levels of government to open that dialog." - Sakbun on safe property initiative -
"It wouldn't surprise me if from their perspective, the best thing to do is to move anybody who's homeless to a larger community. Is that the right way to deal with it, no. But I assume it happens." -Mayor Mary Ferdon -
"I have a lot of people tell me that they don't vote anymore because they don't think that who's in office makes a difference." - Thomson on canvassing neighborhoods -
"Until we're ready to have these conversations about transforming the state economy, we're just going to find more ways to cut employees and cut services." - Mayor Brandon Sakbun
