I wanted take a moment and wish friend and foe alike a Merry Christmas and joyful holiday season. This will be the the third Christmas for me and Mrs. Shabazz, but our first one as a married couple, so this should prove to be interesting and a lot of fun. I’ll have some new thoughts […]
Remember, there is no such thing as bad publicity! Or is there?
My Democratic friends are circulating a Night Before Chirstmas parody that mentions yours truly. So not to be out done, and to show I’m a good sport, I took a sneak peak at the Marion County Democratic Chairman’s Christmas carol collection and noted the following titles. Enjoy All I Want for Christmas is a Tax […]
I’m on “vacation” for the next couple weeks. The following is a guest column by Kevin Teasley, The President of the Indianapolis-based GEO Foundation. The state’s call for savings in education combined with the public’s on-going need to improve schools can appear to be quite a challenge and indeed it is. However, this challenge isn’t […]
Although I’m in “vacation” mode I still intend to do some blogging. And from some reading I’ve done in the local blogosphere lately, I couldn’t do it to soon. Some of my Democratic friends are screaming bloody murder over the Governor’s announced $300 million cuts to K-12 education funding. Nevermind the fact that state revenue […]
I wanted to give you a heads up that I’m going to be taking a few days off. It’s the end of the year and it’s “use them or lose them” vacation time. I’m not going anywhere, but I’m giving Indiana Barrister a little rest. I’ll do some postings during the week on a few […]
I’ve got some other work to do today so this post will be real quick. Like I hinted at weeks ago, the city is naming Frank Straub, the former Public Safety Commissioner of White Plains, NY as the new Public Safety Director. Indiana Superintendent Tony Bennett says teachers unions may have renegotiate local contracts and […]
Okay, we all know that the state revenue forecast has Indiana in some pretty dire straits and Governor Mitch Daniels is calling for $300 million in cuts from education. Now while some people may argue that the dark clouds have finally hit, I maintain there is a ray of sunshine in all this. Maybe, just […]
Indiana lawmakers got the bad news today. The state faces a $1.8 billion revenue shortfall by the end of the biennium. Governor Daniels talks about it in the link below. If the forecast is true not only is the $1 billion “surplus” gone, but the state is $800 million in the hole. I doubt there […]
Okay, here’s the follow up to yesterday. Contrary to popular opinion, Indiana lawmakers are not stupid and see the handwriting on the wall when it comes to property tax caps by overwhelmingly voting them out of committee. In addition, the committee also overwhelmingly voted to cap tax bills to the previous year, plus the consumer […]
