You may have heard the story today that about 500 IPS families went to the Center Township Trustee’s office seeking poor relief so they can afford to buy school uniforms. I’m all for helping the poor, but you have to ask what have these parents been doing all summer? It’s not a new story that […]

Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson says he doesn’t expect an easy road to re-election. Peterson responded to a Marion County Republican party poll which said 64 percent of voters think the County is going in the wrong direction and 53 percent want someone other than Peterson as Mayor. Peterson says he doesn’t take re-election for granted […]

I did some more checking on the residency status of City-County Council member Patrice Abdullah. His address is listed as 1144 Warman on the Council’s website and in candidate paper’s filed with the Clerk’s Office. However, that address is right on the border between District’s 14 and 15. According to the Council’s website, 1144 Warman […]

The controversy is continuing surrounding the residency of Indianapolis City-County Council Member Patrice Abdullah. Not only are local Democrats privately expressing concerns that Abdullah could be removed from the Council because his listed home address on the Council’s website is not in his district, but now the controversy has gotten the attention of the State […]

Already the spin is coming on the poll recently released that says a majority of voters think Marion County is on the wrong track and want someone other than Bart Peterson as Mayor. Let’s establish a couple things. A poll is a snapshot of the mood of the voters. Second, the poll done on Peterson […]

More than half of likely voters in a new poll of the Indianapolis Mayor’s race say they will vote for someone other than incumbent Bart Peterson. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed say they want a new person in office, while 41 percent say would definitely or probably vote for the Mayor. This is a sharp […]

The blog, Advance Indiana, has raised some legitimate questions about the residency of City-County Council Member Patrice Abdullah. Abdullah represents the 15th District, however his home address on the Council’s website, 1144 Warman, is not in his district. I did a check of the council map and there are two 1144 Warmans, one north and […]

The coffee is brewing and the bacon is on the stove, so now I can get back to blogging. I misplaced my jail overcrowding notes, but I should be able to find them by the end of the day and get that story to you. Meanwhile, Judge Rueben Hill came under fire this week for […]

Let me start by saying it’s nice to be back. I had a great time with my son and revisiting old haunts in that other Capitol City across the border. However, all good things must come to an end. Although I was gone for 10 days, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t paying attention to what […]

A lot of you have been asking me to come back and get back to work covering the issues facing Indianapolis and Marion County. I’ll be back Sunday with a lot of things to talk and write about. I’ll dissect the Mayor’s 2008 Budget address. While the Mayor did make some valid points in his […]