I now have a new tradition. The second Saturday night of Indiana Black Expo, I work the door at Nicki Blaine’s Cigar and Martini bar. I do it to get a feel for the atmosphere and to see what problems occur when thousands of teenagers are unleashed on downtown Indianapolis and what the impact would […]

Marion County Public Safety Director Scott Newman has unveiled a plan to clean up IMPD.  Those measures include… More intensive supervision of officers in the field Tighter accounting and inventory controls of search warrants and seizures of drugs and money Bringing back the previous practice of polygraph tests for officers assigned to narcotics enforcement, vice, […]

According to my colleague Jack Rinehart at RTV 6, City-County Councilor Paul Bateman is under investigation for his role in a charitable foundation that is missing more than $1.5 million. Marion County Grand Jurors served a search warrant last week on the headquarters of the Russel Foundation seizing computers, IRS records and other documents. Bateman […]

I’ve gotten a preview of the next budget for Indianapolis, I’ll have more details as they become available, but from what I can gather, things are not as bad we thought they were, they are much worse! So brace yourself for the disaster of almost Biblical proportions that is coming.

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Barack Obama is in Indiana today talking National Security at Purdue University.  That motivated me to look at some polling data between Barack and John McCain. Although the national polls show a virtual tie, when you look at the state polling data (which I argue is a more accurate measure) you get somewhat of a […]

The numbers are in for Mitch Daniels and Jill Long Thompson.  In the interest of trying to keep this as consistent as possible I’m including what they started with, raised this year, spent and how much is in the bank.   That way you can draw your own conclusions. Daniels $6.7 million at the beginning of […]

I woke up this morning with a few thoughts on my mind, most of them were random but there was one that stuck out with me. I was thinking how nice it would be if as many people in this town got as worked up over the murder rate as they do free tickets to […]

Barack Obama will be back in Indiana on Wednesday.  The Senator and presumptive Democratic nominee for president will be at Purdue University in West Lafayette He will be holding a summit on national security with Evan Bayh and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. The topics will include bio-terrorism, non-nuclear proliferation and cyber security.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson had some strong words for incumbent Governor Mitch Daniels and his fellow Republicans.  Shortly after speaking to a Veterans group on Saturday, Thompson said Indiana needs to do more for veterans in the areas of education and health care.  She also attacked Governor Mitch Daniels,  saying that during his time […]