Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 2000 — Page 4

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By MIKE SMITH Associated Press Writer Has the time finally arrived for Indiana to observe daylight saving time like 47 other states? The Hoosier Daylight Coalition, a newly formed group of business, law enforcement, recreation and education people, answers that with a resounding “Yes!” One by one, its members took a microphone in the Statehouse Rotunda recently to make their case. A former deputy prosecutor from Clay County said more sun in the early evening hours, when traffic is heavy and more pedestrians are out and about, would reduce car accidents and discourage crime. An official with Bloomington Parks and Recreation said lighting fixtures for softball fields and tennis courts could be turned on later in the evening, saving energy. He also said it was hard to sell golf tee times after work in Indiana during the months the state is not observing daylight savings. “In the golf business you sell a finite item — time,” he said. More golf clubs would be sold, too, the coalition said in a court-like brief. A mother from Jasper said her 14-year-old daughter suffers from night blindness. “Daylight-saving time would mean one more hour of independence for her,” she said. A business executive said the change would boost Indiana’s economy. For one thing, Wall Street would have an easier time

tracking its investments here since the state - would be on the same time as New York City. Fewer conference calls would be missed because confusion over the time differences would be eliminated, he said, and airlines would have an easier time scheduling flights. “Other states can’t figure out what time zone we’re in,” he said. All that having been said, the coalition is likely to face high hurdles and a long history in making their case to the General Assembly in January. Bills to enact daylight savings in the vast majority of Indiana that does not observe it have been introduced numerous times over the years, only to be rejected. The coalition will cite a recent survey in which they say 57 percent of Hoosiers favor moving up clocks one hour in the spring and one hour back in the fall. But daylight savings has proven to be an extremely emotional and divisive issue in the Legislature. In fact, its repeated failure to pass has become almost a comical part of Hoosier lore. In 1995, Republican Rep. Richard Mangus of Lakeville helped kill daylight saving time by offering silly amendments. One suggested a classic compromise of splitting the difference so Hoosiers would spring forward by just half an hour in April. If it was noon in New York and 11 a.m. in Chicago, it would be 11:30 a.m. in most of Indiana. Is a 57-percent favor margin enough to

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force in the General Assembly. Farm Bureau lobbyist Bob Kraft said

farmers have cited a variety of reasons for ,, opposing the change. One of them is quite "

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“Quite frankly, some of them say there is; a sense of pride in the fact that Indiana is different from the rest of the nation, and they like being different,” Kraft said. Indiana University economist Morton Marcus said daylight savings should be a non-issue. in In a recent column Marcus writes that id*' printed in some Indiana newspapers, he dismissed the latest argument for adopting the time change — that it will help the state join the “new economy.” “Now we are to believe that people who understand nanoseconds are , >;; discombobulated by Hoosier time,” Marcus , wrote. “Entrepreneurs who operate around the world, around the clock, are seemingly, so sensitive that they are confounded by our :;

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