Hope you have a good Valentine’s Day.   Spend the day with someone you love, which for some of you means hanging out by yourself.  Me, I’ll take the lovely Mrs. Shabazz.

I received this e-mail from a friend a couple days ago.  I think it makes for interesting reading as well move forward with the debate on school reform.  I left their name out to protect their privacy. Abdul, Today, I received a call on my personal cell phone, from the teacher’s union presumably, from a young […]

When making a decision to attend a political party slating convention, the big thing I ask myself is which one will be more interesting.   This year the winner was the Marion County Democrats.  They had four contested races which in turn led to a lot more drama.  My Republican friends only had a couple contested […]

Here’s who got slated today.  I’ll have some perspective tomorrow. Republicans Mayor: Greg Ballard City-County Council At-Large: Jackie Cissell At-Large: Mike Kalscheur At-Large: Barb Malone At-Large: Angel RiveraDistrict 1: Susan Blair District 3: Ryan Vaughn District 4: Christine Scales District 5: Ginny Cain District 6: Janice McHenry District 8: Stu Rhodes District 12: Mike McQuillen […]

Sam Carson, the son of the late Julia Carson, told me Thursday morning that he is running for Mayor of Indianapolis.  Shortly after formally announcing, Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy put out this statement. “The entry into the mayor’s race of the unemployed Sam Carson brings an interesting development — a candidate with neither […]

I’m doing the morning show live from the Indiana General Assembly today, so this will be short and to the point. Politico is reporting that Governor Mitch Daniels will announce later this Spring whether he will run for President.  The article is pretty interesting.  Of course looking at the current field of contenders, Daniels would […]

I attended the Statehouse teacher (union) rally Tuesday afternoon and stayed for the subsequent charter school vote in the House.  The measure passed 59-37. What was most interesting was the reaction of the teachers.   I have honestly never seen so many people so angry and afraid like that in a while.  I’ve embedded their comments […]

In today’s episode of the battle over education reform, two of the state’s biggest teachers unions have scheduled rallies in Indianapolis, Anderson and East Chicago to protest what Indiana lawmakers are doing at the statehouse. I think it’s rather ironic the Indiana Federation of Teachers and the State Teachers Association chose two school districts that […]

There’s a joke I tell in my comedy routine about same-sex marriage.  Once you get married, the sex is always the same!  (Rimshot here)  Now I make it a point not to tell that bit with my lovely wife in the audience, otherwise sex won’t even be a question when we get back to the […]

Since today is Super Bowl Sunday and politics is probably the last thing on your mind, I’ll try to be as brief as possible while talking the latest gossip, rumor and blatant innuendo. Mark February 22 on your calendar at Republican State party headquarters in downtown Indianapolis.  That is reportedly when and where Indiana State […]