Indiana lawmakers are voting on the $28 billion budget today. There is is $150 million more for schools and full day kindergarten. Lawmakers also have agreed to split the difference between taxpayers and the teachers pension fund of any budget surplus of over 10 percent of state revenues. I’ve embedded a copy of the budget […]
With a few days to go before the May primary, Democratic City-County Council at-large candidate Pat Andrews is hitting the airwaves with this commercial. I think the the two most interesting things about the ad are one, a commercial was actually made. Second, it’s running on Black Entertainment Television, which tells me Andrews is trying […]
I received a copy of the following statement in my e-mail tonight from the Indianapolis Bar Association. The organization took issue with my recent blog post Treacy v. Parker? As a big believer in free speech, I have no problem with the Bar Association criticizing yours truly. I stand by my blog post. This blog […]
Today is the second to last day of the Indiana General Assembly. We’re doing the morning show love from the Statehouse talking to various newsmakers so I figured I’d so something a little different today. I have this thing for the Academy Awards so I figured I’d do the same thing and let you offer […]
I thought I was done for a while with the perpetual stories of Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy’s inability to play well with others like 7th District Congressman Andre Carson and Mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy, however the fates have decided on a different course of action this morning and this tale takes us by […]
With one week to go before the May primary I’ve been taking a look at some of the early voting. As of Monday afternoon just under 2600 people voted early, either in person or mail (1772) the rest have submitted an application to vote by mail, traveling board or fax/email but have not yet returned […]
Although we’re still quite a bit away from the 2012 elections, Democrats are slowly lining up to take on Republicans. Former Speaker of the House John Gregg is forming an exploratory committee to run for Governor. There is also talk State Senate Democratic Leader Vi Simpson may also make a run, appealing to the more […]
Yesterday got a little hectic and away from me, so I didn’t get time to compose a few thoughts for your reading pleasure this morning. So today, I’ll let you do the work and express your own thoughts. I’ll give you a few topics to get things started. I’ll try to have something up later […]
As I look at the debate in Washington, D.C. over federal spending and how we get this nation’s finances under control, I always marvel at the words, “the wealthy need to pay their fair share”. Usually this occurs when the President talks about rolling back the Bush era tax cuts. While I don’t think taking […]
The Indiana Senate voted Tuesday to concur with the House on SB 575 and send a bill to Governor Mitch Daniels’ desk that would limit collective bargaining in teachers union contracts to wages and benefits and eliminate layoffs based solely on seniority. Score one for the good guys and for education reform. This is the […]
