If you are African-American and read this blog on a regular basis, we need to talk. If you’re white and reading this, just hang out for a moment. Like you, I’m still amazed at the events of this week and the swearing-in of Barack Obama as President. As I watched I thought of my deceased […]
Three weeks into a legislative session full of some of the most important issues facing Indiana and you would have thought Indiana lawmakers would spend the day taking up the budget, property tax caps or the economy. You would think. Today lawmakers talked about Sugar Cream Pie and its Hoosier heritage. And that’s all they […]
There’s word on the street that some of the local activists folk may show up at the Mayor’s Community Luau this Saturday (1-4 p.m. at the IMS Pavilion ) and cause a stir. Apparently they have some issues with the administration and who it uses to lobby and they think the “People’s Mayor” has forgotten […]
The new report is out on the Mayor-Sponsored Charter Schools in Indianapolis. Here are the findings… 94 percent of the 2007-2008 Mayor-sponsored Charter high schools are now enrolled in either two or 4-year colleges. Students who usually come to a Mayor-sponsored charter school are academically behind their traditional public school counterparts. Mayor-sponsored charter schools are […]
I’ve been glancing through the Mayor’s campaign finance reports this evening. For the 2008 cycle, an off-season for municipal elections, incumbent Greg Ballard raised more than $835,000 and had more than $530,000 in the bank by the end of the year. A Ballard campaign official says they exceeded their expectations for the year seeing how […]
There’s more evidence that Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson is planning a run for Mayor in 2011. Anderson’s political action committee, Citizens of Frank J. Anderson, had a political fundraiser last night at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Indianapolis. It was $100 a person and about 50 people attended. I’m still working to confirm that […]
My thoughts on this Inauguration Day are real simple. For Black folks, there is now a new age of accountability! The last thing I want to hear is how some white person kept you down. For the young “brothas”, pull those pants up, turn that hat around and get a job or an education! […]
It’s become a tradition for me to reprint this column I wrote back in 1996. And with the new age of accountability that’s coming, it seems to be even more relevant this year. Recently I had a conversation with a black friend of mine and she told me something I found was a bit disturbing. […]
You guys know that in addition to the broadcasting and politics, I teach college part-time. I had something interesting happen this past week. While in class Thursday and going over the course schedule, I had one student (a young African-American male) ask me if we had class on Inauguration Day? I told him “yes, why […]
