“You are entitled to all the lousy, crummy, graft-ridden government you want and are willing to pay for.” Governor Mitch Daniels last week on government reform to 450 Lake County Residents at a town hall meeting.

Although they were scheduled at about the same time, I managed to attend both the Democratic and Republican County re-organization meetings where both Ed Treacy and Tom John were re-elected as chairman of their respective parties.  As the only media to show up at both events, here are some of my observations of the day. […]

I attended today’s Marion county reorganizations for the Democrats and Republicans today.  I’ll have some analysis tomorrow, but guess who was at the GOP re-organization, running for Sheriff and brought his IMPD vehicle with him?   Not sure?  Here are some photos I took to help you out.     Nice way to start your run […]

Since Democrats and Republicans are doing their county re-organizations today and nothing major is expected to happen at either event, I thought I’d do a little handicapping of the 2011 Mayoral Race, since everyone and his mother is planning to run on the D side. I’m mainly sticking with the candidates whose names have appeared […]

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Although some members of the Franklin Township Board in Marion County may have opposed fire consolidation in the past, some are giving it a second look. Faced with the loss of at least $1 million in annual revenue due to property tax caps, the township trustee, Terry Royalty, is forming a committee to look at […]

The state’s teacher’s union are getting ready to cover their rear ends. ISTEP testing has begun and the union is complaining that the test is too hard and will lead to students not performing well.    Call me crazy, but shouldn’t we wait until the test results are in before making this kind of judgment call […]

If you were counting on any big changes this weekend in the leadership at either the Marion County Democrats or Republicans party re-organizations, forget it about. No one has filed to run challenges against either Democratic County Chairman Ed Treacy nor Republican County Chairman Tom John.  So either everyone is happy with their leadership or […]

I just finished watching the latest meeting of the City-County Council Municipal Corporations Committee.  You know what the subject was?  Lucas Oil Stadium.  The Committee got a presentation from Capitol Improvement Board Executive Director Barney Livengood and CIB President Bob Grand.  You can click here to see it for yourself. You will see the CIB […]

Any solution to fix Indiana’s unemployment trust fund deficit won’t be pretty.  That’s according to Republican State Senator Dennis Kruse, who’s chairing the committee that’s trying to solve the problem.   Kruse has been holding hearings this week on the fund which is $470 million in the hole and running deficits to the tune of […]