Although they won’t make an official announcement until this afternoon, I hear the two likely candidates to replace Jim Kittle as head of the Indiana GOP are Mark Lubbers, aide to Governor Mitch Daniels and former State Senator Murray Clark of Indianapolis, who also ran for Lt. Governor in 2000. I’ll let you know for […]

I hear the likely candidate to replace the outgoing head of the Indiana Republican party is key Mitch Daniels aide, Mark Lubbers, who is also the husband of State Senator Threasa Lubbers. We’ll see. So much for taking Friday off.

I’m taking a few days off to spend time with my son, but before I disappear I wanted to leave you with these two items to chew on for a while, lawmakers health insurance and Marion County Consolidation. Health Care for Life As you know there has been a stir raised in the Capitol over […]

In the nearly year and a half that I have come to know Mitch Daniels one thing I can say is that although he may be from Indiana, he sure doesn’t act like it. In his second State of the State address the Governor outlined a road map for Indiana that continues it in the […]

Below Abdul notes that the Indiana GOP is calling for the elimination of township assessors, trustees and consolidating township departments. Within Marion this may serve as an interesting juxtaposition for the recent GOP opposition to Bart Peterson’s consolidation efforts. But in the context of the wider state this move makes sense. After all, it was […]

In his quest to consolidate local government, Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson may have found an ally in the most unlikely of places, the Indiana Republican Party. I am not making this up. I was checking the state GOP website this morning and under Indiana Watch (Jan 10, 2006 edition), the GOP calls for the elimination […]

Just how far is government willing to go to reach openness? Taking Down Words points to how one Florida city started dealing with employee e-mail in December 2004: “The public and the media may read e-mails sent and received by City of Sarasota employees, including the city manager, city commissioners, and all department heads. “Effectively […]

As someone who covers the Indianapolis City-County Council allow me to offer a thought or two about the presidential election in the largest county in Indiana… The facts, on their face, are simple. Current City-County Council President Steve Talley decides his personal commitments are too much for him, so to focus on family and other […]

The House Judiciary committee today passed by a vote of 10-0 HB 1010, which puts serious restrictions on the government’s ability to take private property for public use. The bill is also retroactive to Nov 23 of last year, which impacts the NK Hurst/Stadium Building Authority conflict. The unanimous vote sends a strong warning to […]

There’s a highly disturbing story in CNET titled, “Create an e-annoyance, go to jail.” It begins: Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. Sen. Arlen […]