A lot attention was raised this weekend on how much money was raised by Republican Greg Ballard and Democrat Melina Kennedy in the race for Indianapolis Mayor.   However, there wasn’t much reporting on how much the political parties raised nor individual City-County Councilors. I decided to spend some time this weekend looking through reports and [...]

Here is the latest Indianapolis political gossip, rumor and innuendo for your reading pleasure. Expect announcements this week from the Indiana Department of Education on recommendations concerning the six failing Indianapolis Public Schools that failed to make it off of academic probation.  Washington, Arlington, Broad Ripple, Emma Donnan, Howe and Manual are potentially on the [...]

Here’s most recent list of the slate of candidates for Mayor and City-County Council as of Thursday.  An asterisk indicates which candidate is the incumbent.   As you can see both the Democrats and Republicans have someone running in virtually every seat and the Libertarians are running more candidates than usual as well.  Regardless of which [...]

Here’s some audio from last night’s council meeting following the 15-14 vote to approve the parking deal.    I’d have written more but it was late and I needed to get to bed. Mike Huber (City) Paul Bateman (Yes Vote) Ed Coleman (No Vote) Ryan Vaughn (Yes Vote) I’ll have some analysis a little later in [...]

I’ve got some work to do today, so I’m posting a guest column by Matt Wittlief of the Marion County Libertarian Party.  Enjoy. ********** On Monday, July 26, the Indianapolis City-County Council voted to approve the transfer of water and waste water utilities to Citizen’s Energy Group. The deal is very complex and convoluted – [...]

It’s not very often I see tri-partisan support for somewhat controversial measures down at the City-County building, but by a vote of 19-10, the Indianapolis City-County Council approved the nearly $2 billion deal to transfer the city’s water and waste water facilities to Citizens Gas.  All 15 Republicans, three Democrats, and one Libertarian all supported [...]

The Indianapolis City-County Council Parks and Recreation Committee tonight will hear Libertarian Ed Coleman’s proposal which would allow guns in city parks.    Depsite the fact, the Mayor has already said he will veto the proposal in its current form, the Coleman proposal is running into strong headwinds from other Council members. While some members tell [...]

Libertarian City-County Council member Ed Coleman has introduced an ordinance that would allow guns to be brought into city parks and playgrounds.  Proposal 39 would allow anyone who is licensed to carry a gun to bring the weapon into any of the city’s more than 200 parks as well as the Monon Trail.   Coleman and [...]

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 [...]

Usually the elections to run a legislative body are pretty mundane; not so much in Indianapolis. Although Monday night’s election of Republican Ryan Vaughn seemed pretty nonchalant on the surface, there was actually an attempted coup behind the scenes.  The original plan, hatched by Democrats my sources tell me, was to elect Barb Malone President [...]