Matt Tully on Governor Time

While I disagree with his opinion that Daylight Saving Time was necessary, I like this article by Matt Tully. (Found via TDW.)

Daylight-saving time is Gov. Mitch Daniels’ own personal Harriet Miers.
A heavy and politically painful weight pulling him down, a target drawing flak from all directions.

But while President Bush released his Supreme Court albatross Thursday morning, Daniels can’t, and won’t, back away from his own mess of an issue.

He’s gone too far. So even as the federal government mucked things up this week, revealing senseless preliminary plans for time zones across Indiana, Daniels stood by his tick-tocking Harriet Miers.

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For now, however, it’s got to be a headache of the pounding sort. This Mount Everest of Indiana issues never really goes away. It keeps finding new ways to irritate and aggravate.
And it’s back, with a federal plan that puts bordering counties with integrated economies in different time zones. Even Daniels — Gov. Time — called a part of the feds’ plan “unworkable.”

Tully points out that, under the preliminary federal plan, 3 of the state’s 5 largest cities (Evansville, Gary, and South Bend) will be on Central Time while the other two will be on eastern time. (Indianapolis and Fort Wayne.)