With all the talk about the debt ceiling and whether and how it should be raised I thought a nice little primer might be necessary on how much we owe and what got us here.   Here’s a breakdown of who owns our $14.3 trillion worth of debt*… U.S. Individuals and Institutions –  $9.8 trillion or […]

Let’s say you’re running for Mayor in a big city.  And while the political demographics of the town tend to work in your favor, you still have some major challenges.  For example you just polled and you found out your opponent has a double digit lead and an approval rating in the 70 percentile range. […]

I planned to take the day off from blogging but this thought came to me last night so I figured I had to post it. Indianapolis Public School Superintendent Dr. Eugene White is threatening to take the State of Indiana to court over the possibility of taking over several failing IPS schools.  White’s argument is […]

I wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star a last month regarding Dr. Eugene White, the Superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools.  At the time I wrote he should be fired because of the dismal performance of the school system. Following the news this week by the Indiana Department of Education that out of the seven […]

Six of seven Indianapolis Public Schools that were on academic probation could be taken over by the state of Indiana next month. The results are in for seven IPS schools that have been on academic probation for the past five years and six of them failed to make adequate progress under state law. The list […]

Friday at 10:30 a.m. the Indiana Department of Education will release the names of schools that made it off academic probation and will not be taken over by the State.   I’ll have a post up tomorrow. In the meanwhile I thought it would be interesting to post some excerpts on education by the two main […]

U.S. Senator Dick Lugar is hitting the airwaves for 10 days with an ad attacking the President on job creation.  Lugar himself has come under fire from the Club for Growth.  The nice thing about having nearly $4 million in the bank is that you can respond to such attacks.

Now that we’ve cleared the Indiana Black Expo hurdle, I can post about some other things that have been going on. So here is all the gossip, rumor and political innuendo fit to print.  Take it for what it’s worth. The Decatur Township Small Claims Court has made the Wall Street Journal, and not for […]

I thought I was pretty much done on Expo for this year, but I forgot to mention two things.  First there were 26 arrests, 13 traffic tickets written and 5 curfew violations that second Saturday night, which is not bad for thousands of kids downtown. Secondly, listen for this to be the new spin from […]

If Friday night was dress rehearsal, the Saturday night was a command performance. The combined efforts of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Department, State Police, Capitol Police, the Ten-Point Coalition and faith-based community, Indiana Black Expo, parents who acted like parents and teenagers who didn’t act like knuckleheads all came together to […]