The curse of an election season that has a lot of focus on the national climate as well as control of the Indiana House of Representatives is that it’s real easy for a lot of candidates to get lost in the shuffle.  If you want to know what I mean, I’m talking about the races […]

We interrupt our daily political coverage to talk about something silly! Let me see if I understand this.  The Black unemployment rate in Indianapolis is about 20 percent.   More than 1,600 students could not attend IPS schools because they didn’t have proof of shots.   Blacks are disproportionately more impacted by crime,  poverty and foreclosures.  And […]

Indianapolis City officials are announcing a new parking deal with ACS.  One  they say will be a better deal for the city and address concerns by critics of the original proposal.  The original 50-year deal would have paid the city $35 million up front and some revenue sharing,  however the deal would be binding for […]

“Hey, maybe you haven’t been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!” It’s not everyday I can use a quote from the 1986 film Aliens, but after talking on background with several  Democrats across the state Monday, I seriously think, for the first time this election season, we could […]

More television ads are surfacing.  Here’s one from Andre Carson, 7th District candidate for Congress.

Although I spend a lot of time talking to political figures from across Indiana, every once in a while I sit down and spent time with people outside of the political bubble.  My criteria are they don’t have to be Ph.Ds in political science, but it helps if they pay attention to what’s going on […]

The campaign finance reports for the latest filing periods are up.  Here’s how the candidates are doing and what they’ve got left to spend for the last two weeks of the 2010 campaign. The Dan Coats campaign tells me they raised more than $2 million in the third quarter and have more than $1.3 million […]

Mark Massa’s campaign is stepping up its efforts in the race for County Prosecutor. It’s unveiling a new television ad today going after Democrat Terry Curry and his record on sex offenders. It’s pretty heavy hitting. It will be interesting to see how the Curry camp responds.

Wow, there’s nothing like two weeks before an election to have multiple story lines pop up all over the place.  So let’s get started. Indiana Democrats continue to accuse Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Coats of lying about when he began to pursue his lobbying career.  State Chairman Dan Parker has another news conference slated […]