It hasn’t been easy but here’s a  rough “guestimate” of an early breakdown of early voting in Marion County. City-County Building,  80-20 Democrats. J . Everett Light,  60-40 Repubicans. Southport Community Center,   70-30 Republicans. Mail-in, 60-40 Republicans. These are guestimates based on conversations with people who pay pretty close attention to this stuff. Please […]

This final Sunday before the election I figured would be the perfect time express a thought or two about the Presidential and gubernatorial races. I’ve been accused of being a shill for the Barack Obama people, although no one can point to an example of where I’ve written for Obama anywhere.   And I got […]

I got this tonight from the JLT campaign.  All I can say is thank God this race will be over in 72 hours.   Dear Friend, Sunday morning at 2:00 a.m., Hoosiers across the state will be moving their clocks back one hour, thanks to Mitch Daniels and his one-sided decision making style. His approach […]

The Republican candidate for President, in the last days of the campaign, is rallying the faithful in Indiana. The Democratic candidate for President, in the last days of the campaign, is running commercials in Arizona, Georgia and North Dakota. The polling data and anecdotal evidence shows a significant number of Hoosiers are going to vote […]

A Marion County Judge is ordering County Clerk Beth White to instruct all poll workers to treat any challenged mail-in absentee ballot like a provisional ballot.   Marion County Republicans argued that the Clerk’s training manual was incorrect when it told poll workers to put all absentee ballots into voting machines. The GOP said the clerk […]

Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes is disputing claims by the township assessors that the property tax appeals are proving their initial assessments were more correct than the reassessed property values.   The assessors, who are fighting a proposal to consolidate their office functions to the county level, say many of the residential appeals show homes […]

The guys at Politico have done a great piece on the most idiotic campaign rumors and why none of them are real stories. I suggest some of you read this and go relax for a while.   Trust me, you’ll feel better.

Much to the chagrin of conspiracy theorists and their ilk, Barack Obama is a U.S. Citizen. Now get out of your basement and off the Internet and try using a real issue, like taxes and fiscal policy.

Current Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and former Mayor Bart Peterson are having a news conference today to promote the consolidation of the township assessor functions into the county assessor.  So in that spirit, I’m reprinting a letter  a listener to my morning radio show sent me in support of consolidation. Consistency Trumps Accuracy in Assessing […]