I’ve got some work to do today so I’ll just throw out a few issues for you to discuss amongst yourselves, hopefully in an intelligent manner. Schools say it would cost millions of extra dollars to do remedial education for 3rd graders who don’t know how to read.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t […]

It’s amazing what you come across when you’re playing on the Internet and scanning through local campaign finance reports.  For the record, I do have a life, I was just killing time before meeting up with friends for cocktails. You come across the usual things; Greg Ballard raised more than $1.3 million in 2009, with […]

Two big items from Tuesday, the Massachusetts Senate Race and Governor Mitch Daniels State of the State Address.  We’ll knock out Massachusetts first. Massachusetts Miracle Although it “sent shock waves” through political world, anyone who was paying attention to the dynamics of the race between Republican State Senator Scott Brown and Democrat Attorney General Martha […]

The Indiana Senate today by a vote of 35-15 passed a measure giving Hoosiers the change to vote on tax caps in November.  The House approved the same measure last week.   If passed into the Constitution, property taxes would be capped at 1-percent of a home’s value for residential property, 2 percent for rental […]

I’m at the Statehouse this morning waiting on the Senate to do a vote on tax caps.  Here’s some good political news I’ve managed to pick up so far. The Indiana State Teacher’s Association unveiled a plan this morning they say will make state budget cuts to education unnecessary.  It calls on school districts to […]

With a hours to go before Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels delivers his State of the State address, a new poll shows that he and property tax caps are getting high marks from Hoosiers. The poll commissioned by the Indiana Association of Realtors shows Daniels total approval rating at 65 percent, while only 29 percent disapprove […]

Just when you thought you had all the information you needed on something, more good gossip comes along.  This time it involves Libertarian City-County Council member Ed Coleman. Coleman apparently was part of the attempted coup Monday night to defeat Ryan Vaughn as Council President.  What’s funny about that is I discovered that Republicans were […]

While most Marion County politicos were watching County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi not run for a third term and Helen Marchal announce her candidacy, there was some interesting movement on the Democratic side of the equation. Candidate David Orentlicher filed paperwork showing he had more than $183,000 in cash on hand in his race for prosecutor.   […]

Although the filing deadline isn’t until Wednesday,  January 20, some 2010 candidates have already filed their annual financial reports.   Here’s a snapshot of some of them… County Prosecutor David Orentlicher Raised – $184,200. Spent – $448.00 On hand – $183,751. Greg Bowes Raised – $7,167 Spent – $2,636 On hand – $4,531 Terry Curry No […]