I’m getting ready to head out of town and do a comedy gig for a charity back in Springfield. I’ve done this for the last several years on New Year’s Eve, so I’ll be sober this evening. But before I left town, I wanted to share my New Year’s Resolutions for my favorite public officials. […]

Saddam Hussein is dead. No one will miss him, but I just have to think that maybe if we did a better of job of picking who we get in bed with in regards to our foreign policy that maybe things like this won’t be necessary in the future. Hopefully, Iraqis will take this opportunity […]

If you get a chance today, check out NUVO. I’ve got a year in review piece on Gov. Mitch Daniels. I think you’ll find it interesting.

My sources tell me a class action suit could be filed this week that could throw a major monkey wrench into Mayor Bart Peterson’s plan to consolidate the IPD and the Sheriff’s Department. They also say the class action suit will center around social security. Several officers will file suit to stop the city letting […]

A tentative deal has been reached between the city of Indianapolis and the Fraternal Order of Police over stalled contract talks. The two sides have been at odds over retro pay, causing officers to picket city hall and Monday Night Football. Under the terms of the tentative agreement, the issue of retro pay will be […]

Merry Chirstmas folks! I hope you have a great holiday season. Be back in a few days.

Jeff Bennet was certified tonight as the winner in the Warren Township Trustee’s race. Following a recount, the Democrat took a seven-vote deficit and turned it into an 11-vote win over Republican Tom Marendt. The vote total was 10,592 to 10,581. This is good news for Mayor Bart Peterson, since Bennet supports consolidation. This is […]

The City-County Council made its biggest mistake Monday night. It introduced a measure that would give Councilors a 75-percent pay raise. That’s right, 75-percent. The proposal would raise council pay from just over $11,000 to nearly $20,000. I wrote about this back in November, but there’s nothing like actually seeing the measure on a sheet […]

On Friday night, RTV 6’s Jack Rheinhart ran a story on how the pay raise and retro pay offer by the city of Indianapolis to the police department had been taken off the table. I did some follow up on this over the weekend (which I managed to do and stay until 3 a.m. both […]

There’s another controversy brewing with the Marion County Coroner. This one could be potentially more disturbing than all the other issues. More details next week.