Democrats seemed skeptical, Republicans somewhat supportive of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard’s budget that closes a $65 million gap with cuts to public safety, dips into reserves and eliminates a local homestead tax credit for property tax payers. City Council President Maggie Lewis said she wanted more details but thought the Mayor should have been more [...]
Here is the Mayor’s introduced budget for 2013. Below is the audio from today’s briefing as well. 2013 budget presentation 8 13 12 from IndianaBarrister Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 1 Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 2 Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 3 A more detailed line by-line budget will be available [...]
A less than two weeks the city of Indianapolis will unveil its budget. I’ll be writing about this over the course of the next few weeks, but here is a cop of the adopted budget for 2012 so we all have a frame of reference to work from. Note: public safety (IMPD, IFD, MCSD, Courts) [...]
The best part about outrage is when it’s not real. The worst part of outrage is when it insults your intelligence. Allow me to explain. My political counterpart and occasional sparring partner Amos Brown has posted on his blog about raises being given in Mayor Greg Ballard’s Office at a time when the city [...]
This may sound crazy, but I’ve been doing some analysis lately of the new 7th Congressional District maps, and Republican Carlos May actually has a pretty good shot at pulling an upset victory over Democratic incumbent Andre Carson. No, I have been overindulging in martinis. (I actually gave up alcohol for 30 days doing the [...]
I originally had planned to attend last week’s Indiana Democratic Convention in Fort Wayne but unfortunately – or fortunately depending on your perspective – I had to attend a conference in Las Vegas. I did make it a point to follow my media colleagues on Twitter as well as read what they wrote when I [...]
Although the Cheat Sheet is a subscriber-based publication, like a girl I used to date, we don’t mind giving it away for free every once in a while. This is one of those times. If you like what you read, subscribe. For the price of a martini and a good cigar, it’s well worth it. [...]
I was getting a little burnt out on the upcoming May primary and have been looking for something else to write about. And then, like manna from heaven, I was looking at the Indianapolis Star’s website and found that the Indianapolis City-County Council Democrats are seriously looking at wasting more than $180,000 of the taxpayers’ [...]
I’ll be doing a little on-air radio work this morning at 11. I’ll be filling on the “Back to Business” Radio program at my old stomping grounds of WXNT-AM, Newstalk 1430 . We’ll be talking about the State of the City and I’ll have some audio from Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and City-Council Vice-President Brian [...]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, Public Safety Director Frank Straub and newly appointed acting IMPD Police Chief Rick Hite went before the media this afternoon to tell the public that the second vial of blood in the David Bisard drunk driving case had been mishandled and several IMPD staff were being put on administrative leave and [...]
