The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Indiana’s Voter ID law. By a 2-1 vote, the panel held the state’s law requiring voters to show a government-issued ID when they vote was constitutional. Indiana Democrats argued the law disenfranchised voters, however the Court ruled Democrats could not produce one voter who had been turned […]

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has filed charges against an Indianapolis woman whose 3-year old was found walking Saturday on I-465. Four counts of Class D Felony Child neglect charges were filed this morning against Nancy Dyer. Dyer’s initial hearing is tomorrow morning. According to police reports her 3-year old son, Damon, was found playing […]

There’s some good news and bad news to report today. The good news is Eric Dickerson and friends have acquired a mobile trailer for Thelmon Green, the 93-year old man who lived in a van at 38th and Keystone who was told last week to leave his home by the Marion County Health Department. Green […]

One member of Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson’s Blue Ribbon Panel on crime was once included in a grand jury investigation regarding a scam involving local bingo parlors. According to public records, local authorities investigated a number of questionable connections between three not-for-profit groups and their gaming operators, which according the October 12, 2001 edition of […]

Today I attended the inauguration ceremony of the new Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The ceremony itself was fairly routine, how the circumstances surrounding it were not. The merger of the Indianapolis Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff’s Department has, in the words of fellow pundit Matthew Tully of Indianapolis Star, been a marriage the […]