I’m hearing a deal will be announced tomorrow between the NK Hurst Bean Company and the Indiana Stadium Building Authority. Neither side is commenting but a source close to the negotiations tells me that under the deal, NK Hust will be allowed to stay at its current location just south of the new stadium. There […]
One 7th District Republican Congressional candidate says he is the victim of dirty tricks by his opponent. Former City-County Council member Ron Franklin says comments made in a recent interview about gays and some individuals on disability are being taken out of context. In an interview conducted last month, Franklin was asked about gay rights […]
The Indiana State Teacher’s Association will file suit tomorrow arguing Indiana’s system of funding education violates state law and the State Constitution. ISTA argues the state has put mandates on schools to perform, but has not provided the necessary funding. Indiana is not alone, according to some research I did this morning, 37 states have […]
Voting Headaches You heard it here first. Doris Anne Sandler told us this morning that while most of the testing went fine yesterday, there were problems with Washington and Decatur Township School Board ballots. She told us the machines could not read the ballots so now they will have to be hand counted. She expects […]
Despite the fact I enjoy covering Indiana state and local government and the politics that permeates them both, every once in a while I like to leave and return to the home state of Illinois. I check on the house, play comedian, visit with old girlfriends, make new girlfriends and have the best alcoholic beverages […]
One of Indiana’s top political pundits, Brian Howey, has re-tooled his website to create a much more user-friedly design. There is a scrolling ticker with daily headlines, political photos, breaking news, and, perhaps most notably, original commentary from your humble Indiana Barrister contributors. Both Abdul and myself contribute semi-regularly, as do a few other diverse […]
On the day the Governor signs the lease of the Indiana Toll Road, the Citizens Action Coalition filed suit in St. Joseph County trying to block the deal. The group is holding a news conference Wednesday afternoon at the Statehouse, but as the Indianapolis Star reports the gist of their compliant is that the Indiana […]
That was the ratio yesterday of pro-immigration supporters to counter demonstrators at the downtown immigration rally. According to city officials, about 20,000 demonstrators showed up to march in support of illegal immigrants. The fact that so many people came out to march in downtown Indianapolis, as well as other places around the country, shows that […]
When it comes to immigration reform, we have met the enemy and he is us. Confused, don’t be because you’re not alone. Since there are rallies scheduled for around the country today, including Indianapolis, I decided to look at some polling data to see exactly where the American people are on the illegal immigration issue. […]
I ran into Mike Edmundson last night. Mike is the Executive Director of the Indiana Democratic Party. I asked him about rumors that former Secretary of State Joe Hogsett is going to run for the job against Todd Rokita in the fall. Mike told me that Joe is not running for the job, but they […]
