Even when I’m out of town, my presence is felt. If that’s not enough, you can catch me this weekend on Inside Indiana Business.

It never fails, the day I have to go back to Illinois and practice law is the day anything and everything breaks lose.  Let’s do a quick run down… Pence off the Fence 6th District Congressman Mike Pence has decided to make my political pundit life a lot less interesting by deciding not to run […]

Supporters of a measure that would change the way alcohol is sold and distributed in Indiana admit changes will have to be made to the legislation amidst growing opposition from a number of places. Currently, the bill requires an alcohol wholesaler to be reimbursed if they lose a contract with a supplier to another wholesaler.  The […]

When a candidate for the U.S. Senate talks about polishing his gun and taking up arms (offensively) against the Government (at 1:40) it’s time to be concerned.

Editor’s Note:  If you haven’t read Sunday’s post, Bar Wars, you may want to do that first before going through this one. As I wrote Sunday, there is legislation pending in the Indiana General Assembly that could potentially give a virtual monopoly on alcohol distribution to one Indiana company, thus leading to potential higher prices and […]

Is the Indiana General Assembly attempting to pass a bill that would create an illegal and possible unconstitutional monopoly when it comes to alcohol sales in the state?   It depends on who you ask.  A coalition of alcohol-related businesses say “yes” others say it’s a way to protect Hoosier jobs. Under current Indiana law, alcohol […]

I’ve got some work to do today so I’ll just throw out a few issues for you to discuss amongst yourselves, hopefully in an intelligent manner. Schools say it would cost millions of extra dollars to do remedial education for 3rd graders who don’t know how to read.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t […]

It’s amazing what you come across when you’re playing on the Internet and scanning through local campaign finance reports.  For the record, I do have a life, I was just killing time before meeting up with friends for cocktails. You come across the usual things; Greg Ballard raised more than $1.3 million in 2009, with […]

Two big items from Tuesday, the Massachusetts Senate Race and Governor Mitch Daniels State of the State Address.  We’ll knock out Massachusetts first. Massachusetts Miracle Although it “sent shock waves” through political world, anyone who was paying attention to the dynamics of the race between Republican State Senator Scott Brown and Democrat Attorney General Martha […]

The Indiana Senate today by a vote of 35-15 passed a measure giving Hoosiers the change to vote on tax caps in November.  The House approved the same measure last week.   If passed into the Constitution, property taxes would be capped at 1-percent of a home’s value for residential property, 2 percent for rental […]