An IMPD police officer was shot tonight on Indianapolis’ east side.  No word yet on his condition, but he was part of a team serving a warrant on a suspect. I’ve been worried about this for a while.  If these idiots will shoot each other with no regard it was a matter of time before […]

Jesse Jackson has done it again.  While waiting to be interviewed on the Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Jackson said some rather derogatory remarks about Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.  On Sunday, Jackson accused Obama of “talking down to Black people” and said (watch out for tough language here) “I want to cut his nuts off.”  He made […]

With the recent rash of murders in this town (a dozen or so in the past two weeks), I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a bigger public outcry.  There were 50 people who protested property taxes on the 4th of July, but I have yet to see one rally on homicides and murder.   The city and some […]

Our friends at The Bilerico Project are celebrating their first birthday!   While we take a more right-of-center approach to issues, the blogosphere is a much better place with them.  And we both agree that people should be judged as individuals and what they do not who they do.  Happy Birthday, guys!  

My Democratic friends are throwing some criticism at Indianapolis Greg Ballard saying he has failed to speak out on the problems facing IMPD. In a news release put out today Marion County Democrats stated… “Since the arrests of nine public safety employees including police officers the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is in turmoil and Mayor […]

Has the Center Township Assessor been listening to Judas Priest lately?  You could make the argument that Eugene Akers has.   As citizens have been going in to appeal their property tax assessments, Akers’ office has been handing out political literature telling them to vote against transferring the Township Assessor’s duties to the County Assessor. I […]

It looks like Taxpayer’s Party Gubernatorial candidate John Waterman is out before he was ever really in.  My good friend Brian Howey is reporting that Waterman was far from the 33,000 signatures he needed to get on the ballot. Waterman ran on a platform of repealing property taxes.  Oh well.

As Marion County residents line up this week to pay their property tax reconciliation bills , I spoke to some area officials to get their take on the subject… Governor Mitch Daniels The reassessment was more fair than what homeowners were paying before. Homeowners would have been paying what businesses should have been paying. People […]

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita says nearly two-thirds of the state’s mortgage brokers didn’t bother to take a standardized license exam as required by law. The General Assembly passed the law last year to toughen requirement for brokers. Rokita says out of the 950 licensed brokers, 639 never bothered to take the exam so […]

We’ve added a new link here at Indiana Barrister to help you guys and gals make more informed decisions in this year’s Presidential election.   In the links column we’ve added the website FactCheck.Org. FactCheck.Org does a very good job at keeping everyone honest at the national level. It’s a pretty useful tool, so I suggest […]