The City of Indianapolis and Fraternal Order of Police have reached a tentative agreement. Under the terms of the four-year deal, officers would not get a raise in 2007, but would get a 12-percent raise by 2010. There is no retro pay in the agreement, but the city would increase its contribution to the officers’ […]
Mitt Romney was in town yesterday raising money for his Presidential campaign. He had his fundraiser at the Columbia Club. I’m told he did pretty well. John Edwards raised $75,000 his last trip. Rudy Giuliani made $250,000. Hilary Clinton may be coming on May 5 and Lord knows how much she’ll raise? It’s got me […]
Once again there are quite a few things going on in the world of local and state politics today. Indiana Republican continue to express their outrage over the failure of constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, however sources inside the GOP camp admit that a good chuck of this issue was to corner Democrats […]
Although I’ve been critical of the Indiana General Assembly for not getting anything done so far this session, I have to say yesterday, their inaction was one of the best things they could have ever done. The House Rules and Legislative Committee voted 5-5 on a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage. Because […]
Today the Indiana House Rules Committee will take up SJR-7, the amendment to the Indiana Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage. The language of the amendment reads as follows, marriage shall be between a man and a woman and nothing in Indiana law shall be construed to require the legal incidents of marriage to unmarried […]
I was out of town this weekend working on legal stuff back in Illinois and made it a point to keep Indianapolis off the radar screen. I asked myself “what could possibly happen while I was gone?” I should have known better. Not only is a 4-year old one of the city’s latest homicide victims, […]
Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson announced a new program yesterday to get illegal guns off the street. Using $100,000 as seed money, Anderson hopes to use the money as a seed fund for Crimestoppers. The money would be used for people who report illegal guns. If you report the gun you get $500, but it […]
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson offered some thoughts today on a number of issues. And in those thoughts there was praise for Republicans and criticism for some of his fellow Democrats. He said while he disagreed with State Senator Jim Merritt over consolidation, he gave Merritt praise for offering up ideas on how resolve the issue. […]
Everytime I think Indiana is taking a step backwards, someone comes along to prove me wrong. And thank God for them. Eli Lilly and Co. has sent a letter to House Speaker Pat Bauer saying that SJR-7 is bad for business. Any smart corporation knows that you need to attract the best and brightest people […]
There are a quite a few items of political note today. Matt Tully has a pieice on how gracious Governor Mitch Daniels has been regarding the defeat of the Commerce Connector and part of the Illiana Expressway. I agree with Matt that the Governor has been gracious in defeat. He’s a much better person than […]
