Since the city won’t be hiring 100 new police officers anytime soon, you might be wondering where your public safety tax money went that was supposed to hire them? $38 million of the tax increase went to IMPD, $10 million of that was supposed to hire new cops. Here’s a breakdown of how it was […]
Some food for thought… The federal government is bailing out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The federal government may bail out the Big Three automakers next year. The federal government already bailed out Bear Stearns. There’s a good chance the airlines will ask for a bail out. With all these bailouts of all these industries, […]
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been consumed with focusing on the Presidential race , my teaching duties, and progressive movement in my domestic situation, unfortunately to the detriment of keeping an eye on city hall. No longer. When I saw the news reports about Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard not being able to hire […]
The following is a guest blog posting by Mark Miles, President of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. This morning I had the chance to chat with Abdul about a critical issue – how do we make local government cost less and work better? The Kernan-Shepard Commission has given us a blueprint: Eliminate township government, wiping […]
In our never ending quest to provide you with information this election season, each Saturday we will list where the candidates for office will be for the following week. If your candidate has an event you want us to list, just send it to us via the “Submit A Story” link under the main menu […]
No I’m not talking presidential politics or gubernatorial politics for that matter. I’m talking about the dorky morning show that I weekdays from 6-10 on WXNT. When I first got here I was only expecting to be here a couple years. I had no idea I’d see another Presidential cycle. Or a change in the […]
John McCain laid out his case to be President. He worked to re-brand the Republican image by telling the American people they can trust them again to lead on energy and the economy. He gave more details in his speech than Barack Obama did in his last week. But whereas, Vice-President nominee Sarah Palin appealed […]
If you are a member of Jill Long Thompson’s campaign staff, you have my deepest sympathies. A new Howey-Gauge poll of 600 likely registered voters shows Republican Mitch Daniels with an 18-point lead with 60 days to go in the Governor’s race. The poll showed Daniels leading 53-35 over JLT. Libertarian Andy Horning had 3-percent […]
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama is going on the O’Reilly Factor tonight on Fox News. I think it will make for interesting watching. Now only if I could get Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy to do the same and come on my morning radio show. Oh well, I guess being brave and getting out […]
Like most of you I watched Sarah Palin tonight accept her party’s nomination for Vice-President of the United States. Overall, you take away from the speech what you brought. If you like her, she hit a home run. If you don’t like her she took cheap shots. Regardless this was an address geared primarily toward […]
