With less than a week to go before the March 11 special election, an emergency meeting of the Marion County Election Board has been called this afternoon.  Although the agenda simply says it involves an investigation regarding voter registration, my sources tell me that nearly 1,000 voter registration cards have been mailed with the wrong […]

With nine days left before Indiana lawmakers are required to adjourn, Statehouse Republicans are making Democrats and offer they hope they won’t refuse. The Republican property tax reform plan calls for an average 30-percent reduction for homeowners.  In addition it phases in tax caps over the next two years, while putting them in the State […]

Although the latest polls show him behind, Republican State Representative Jon Elrod may have an early lead over Democrat City-Councilor Andre Carson in the race for the 7th Congressional District. According to the Marion County Clerk’s Office, more than 6,400 voters have either requested absentee ballots or have come into the office and voted early. […]

I spent a good chunk of time last night with Indiana lawmakers at an end of session gathering downtown.  I asked a number of them, both Republicans and Democrats, about  what they thought about getting out on time on providing Hoosiers with permanent property tax relief. Everyone seemed confident lawmakers would get out on time, […]

After a nice trip through the looking glass this morning it’s back to reality and things that matter for taxpayers.  Indiana lawmakers continue their behind the scenes negotiations on property tax reform.  One item I hear that may be surfacing is that schools are trying to exempt themselves from any property tax caps.  Yes, the […]

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard  says his administration has found a few million dollars in government waste and inefficiencies since taking office.  He plans to release full details as his administration completes its review.  Ballard says the millions are in contracts and bad management.  The Mayor has also ordered five-percent budget cuts in preparation for property […]

Gary Welsh at Advance Indiana is writing about me (again)  this morning.   Gary must not remember that I’m a big media whore (whores get paid, sluts do it for free) and love the publicity.  It doesn’t bother me though because that’s just another thing that Welsh doesn’t know and he makes it clear by writing about […]

I think I have officially seen it all today.  Instead of debating real issues such as Iraq, health care, the slow meltdown of the American economy, the blogosphere is ripe with stories about Republican Jon Elrod’s sexual orientation and  Democrat Andre Carson’s religion. It’s ironic that individuals who want to be treated with the same […]

There are 12 days left before lawmakers are set to adjourn.  I’m going to try to have daily updates from the legislature for your reading enjoyment. The conference committee met today on HB 1001 and of course nothing was decided.  There was some information distributed on how local governments could use local option income taxes […]

Let me ask you a simple question.  If you made a mistake at your job which cost your company $4 billion, how long do you think you would be able to keep it?