I sat down with the Mayor of Indianapolis this morning for the standard end of the year interview.  Here are some of his thoughts local issues. Biggest Accomplishment: An honestly balanced budget and being a good steward of the taxpayers’ dollars and saving them close to $50 million in his first year. Crime: The city is […]

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels plans to present the budget to lawmakers on Tuesday, January 6. He sat down with us media folks Monday morning and answered some of our questions on the budget, education, government reform and other issues. Here’s a summary of portions of that conversation. Biggest Accomplishment of 2008: Property tax reduction. It […]

Although vacations are notorious for accomplishing absolutely nothing, there were some things that I learned while being “gone” for the last week or so.  Here they are. The people who are still trying to prove Barack Obama is not eligible to be President have way too much time on their hands. You know your future […]

Hope you have a great Chirstmas!  See you in a few days!      

Only in my home state of Illinois is something like this possible. A Christian group wanted to put a  nativity scene in the Capitol, so the Secretary of State who oversees the facility, against his better judgement, put one up. Then the atheists got mad and then they got a display. Then the Jews were […]

As we get closer to 2009, I recently came across an on-line list of things that are “vanishing” and may not exist in a few years.  I’ve listed some of them.  What do you think should be included? The printed “Yellow Pages” Answering machines Handwritten letters Personal checks Drive-in theatres Honey bees News magazines Analog […]

I’m technically on vacation this week.  By “technically”, I mean I have days I have to use or lose.   But since there are still interesting things to write and talk about I figured I’d keep our conversation going on the blog.  Here are my thoughts on a few stories that have surfaced lately. Government Consolidation […]

Before heading back to Indy after a weekend of telling jokes and having a lot of fun at the expense of the current Governor of Illinois, I thought I’d post a few items of note for you to munch on until tomorrow… Expect a new report on charter schools to come out soon counteracting the […]

If you are someone who is not an elected official, doesn’t work for local government or has a family member who works for local government, make your case against consolidation and Kernan-Shepard, which by the way according to a Ball State study would free up more than $600 million in taxpayer funds. Go ahead,  I […]