One of my favorite films is Casablanca. And while you would think my favorite character would be Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine (totally understandable), it is actually Claude Raine’s character Capt. Louis Renault, particularly the scene above when he tells Rick he is closing down the Club because he is “shocked to find that there is […]
by Douglas Stephenson Even though “hanging out” has been a rite of passage for U.S. teens for decades, the practice has become an over-populated (and recently violent) problem in downtown Indianapolis. After a 16-year-old fired a gun outside Circle Centre Mall last Friday, there has been a lot of hand-wringing, finger-pointing, and blame-avoidance in the […]
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Jan 29 at NUVO.net. You can get an update by clicking over to IndyPolitics.Org. Here we go again, another story about a mall shooting and young people getting out of control. I hate to be the bad guy here but when it comes to shootings and silliness, someone […]
Here is the Mayor’s introduced budget for 2013. Below is the audio from today’s briefing as well. 2013 budget presentation 8 13 12 from IndianaBarrister Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 1 Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 2 Leon-Tailored Audio – City Budget – 3 A more detailed line by-line budget will be available […]
A less than two weeks the city of Indianapolis will unveil its budget. I’ll be writing about this over the course of the next few weeks, but here is a cop of the adopted budget for 2012 so we all have a frame of reference to work from. Note: public safety (IMPD, IFD, MCSD, Courts) […]
If it appears that the Indianapolis City-County Council hasn’t done much in 2012 it might be because its committees are hardly ever meeting. A check of committee meetings from January through June showed the following… January – 11 meetings were scheduled; 5 meetings were cancelled; (45.46%) February – 13 meetings scheduled; 2 meetings were cancelled; […]
Under current city of Indianapolis curfew laws, it is perfectly fine for a 15-year old to be running the streets at midnight on a Friday or Saturday. Somehow, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. As the summer gets into full swing and we see and read more reports of juveniles getting in […]
If you are a hookah bar or cigar bar in Indianapolis, you have until Friday to file with the city to keep your exemption from the stricter smoking ban that goes into effect June 1. Under an ordinance passed by the city, smoking will be banned in nearly all bars and taverns at 6:00 a.m. […]
I was getting a little burnt out on the upcoming May primary and have been looking for something else to write about. And then, like manna from heaven, I was looking at the Indianapolis Star’s website and found that the Indianapolis City-County Council Democrats are seriously looking at wasting more than $180,000 of the taxpayers’ […]
It’s apparent that for some of you we are going to have to agree to disagree on whether Frank Straub should be reappointed as Public Safety Director, so let’s set that aside for a moment while I ask a simple hypothetical. You are now in charge of public safety in Indianapolis. Your power is no […]
