Now that we are in 2007, everyone can turn their attention to Municipal races. Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson is likely to announce soon that he will run for a third-term in office. Third terms can be tricky for elected officials. By the end of eight years, voters, although they like you, are usually ready for […]
Back in September I wrote about how control of Indianapolis Public Schools should be turned over to the Mayor’s Office. I argued that one person responsible for the school district would be better than several. There’s an article out today by the AP that talks about the same thing. I think the subject makes for […]
I got a weird press release in my e-mail today. It came from the City-County Council Office on official letterhead. Here’s the first part… Council Democrat Caucus Announces Leadership Indianapolis — The Democrat members of the City-County Council announced today their support for the re-election of Monroe Gray as President and Joanne Sanders as Vice […]
Governor Mitch Daniels today announced that he doesn’t have bill sponsors lined up yet for some of his major initiatives, Full Day Kindergarten, the Commerce Connector and Lottery Privatization. I spent the afternoon talking to Democratic and Republican sources and here’s what I’ve come up with so far, noting this is the government so it’s […]
Yours truly will be on TV this weekend. I’ll be a guest on Indiana Week in Review on WFYI-TV. It airs Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at noon. Check it out.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Indiana’s Voter ID law. By a 2-1 vote, the panel held the state’s law requiring voters to show a government-issued ID when they vote was constitutional. Indiana Democrats argued the law disenfranchised voters, however the Court ruled Democrats could not produce one voter who had been turned […]
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has filed charges against an Indianapolis woman whose 3-year old was found walking Saturday on I-465. Four counts of Class D Felony Child neglect charges were filed this morning against Nancy Dyer. Dyer’s initial hearing is tomorrow morning. According to police reports her 3-year old son, Damon, was found playing […]
There’s some good news and bad news to report today. The good news is Eric Dickerson and friends have acquired a mobile trailer for Thelmon Green, the 93-year old man who lived in a van at 38th and Keystone who was told last week to leave his home by the Marion County Health Department. Green […]
One member of Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson’s Blue Ribbon Panel on crime was once included in a grand jury investigation regarding a scam involving local bingo parlors. According to public records, local authorities investigated a number of questionable connections between three not-for-profit groups and their gaming operators, which according the October 12, 2001 edition of […]
Today I attended the inauguration ceremony of the new Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The ceremony itself was fairly routine, how the circumstances surrounding it were not. The merger of the Indianapolis Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff’s Department has, in the words of fellow pundit Matthew Tully of Indianapolis Star, been a marriage the […]
