With $30 million down, state and local officials are looking to close a $17 million funding source gap for the Capital Improvement Board. With things still fluid behind the scenes, no one was willing to go on the record, however talks have centered as of late on how to close $17 million of the $47 […]
Say what you will about the politics, but he does a pretty good job.
This is a photo of my lovely mother. She rocks. One day my future wife’s picture will be up here as well. Spangle is there because I couldn’t photo shop him out of the picture. Happy Mother’s Day!
The political gossip and rumor mill was full blast this week, as well as some inside information on key events. So here we go. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay can’t seem to figure out why he’s been getting a lot of bad PR lately. In a 90-minute meeting with city officials this past week, Irsay […]
The national unemployment numbers are out. It’s at 8.9 percent. The figures aren’t out yet on Indiana, but I don’t expect them to be good. However, here is something to think about. I’m hearing from the business community that although the unemployment rate is high, there is a shortage of labor in skilled and highly […]
As you probably read Thursday, the blog post was not written by Indiana Barrister, but Indianapolis Public School Board member Kelly Bentley. The response was very good. I plan to ask for submissions from other news and policy makers and hopefully get something up here once a week or bi-weekly. If you think you […]
Indiana Barrister is tied up today, so we asked for a guest editorial from IPS School Board member Kelly Bentley. The piece was not edited and appears just as she wrote it. ****** Abdul is experimenting with guest editorials for his blog and asked me to write one. To say I was a bit taken […]
Parents at nearly a dozen Indianapolis Public Schools may actually get to exercise their school choice option. According to the Indiana State Department of Education, 10 IPS schools are on their fourth year of academic probation, which means under state law, parents can transfer their kids to another school in the district. In addition, the […]
The Capital Improvement Board is defending raises for some of its employees. Under normal circumstances the raises make sense, but unfortunately, these aren’t normal times. The raises pretty much amount to cost of living and were done last year, but still perception eventually becomes reality. Of course it would have been nice for my Democratic […]
Got a busy next couple of days, so I will make this quick. If you ever decide to become a national spokesperson against gay marriage, make sure there are no half-naked pictures of you running around on the Internet. Carrie Prejean, Miss California, probably wishes she had.
