As you probably read Thursday, the blog post was not written by Indiana Barrister, but Indianapolis Public School Board member Kelly Bentley. The response was very good. I plan to ask for submissions from other news and policy makers and hopefully get something up here once a week or bi-weekly. If you think you […]
Indiana Barrister is tied up today, so we asked for a guest editorial from IPS School Board member Kelly Bentley. The piece was not edited and appears just as she wrote it. ****** Abdul is experimenting with guest editorials for his blog and asked me to write one. To say I was a bit taken […]
Parents at nearly a dozen Indianapolis Public Schools may actually get to exercise their school choice option. According to the Indiana State Department of Education, 10 IPS schools are on their fourth year of academic probation, which means under state law, parents can transfer their kids to another school in the district. In addition, the […]
The Capital Improvement Board is defending raises for some of its employees. Under normal circumstances the raises make sense, but unfortunately, these aren’t normal times. The raises pretty much amount to cost of living and were done last year, but still perception eventually becomes reality. Of course it would have been nice for my Democratic […]
Got a busy next couple of days, so I will make this quick. If you ever decide to become a national spokesperson against gay marriage, make sure there are no half-naked pictures of you running around on the Internet. Carrie Prejean, Miss California, probably wishes she had.
I spoke with Senator Luke Kenley today on the new budget numbers. Here are his thoughts… Sen. Luke Kenley
In my never ending effort to help alleviate the problems of this city and state, I’ve come up with another idea to help solve the Capital Improvement Board’s funding crisis. It not only solves the funding shortfall, but it also takes care of getting out-state Indiana to buy into the solution. I started with City-County […]
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels says the budget will be more than $1 billion short based on new actual budget numbers. Daniels told reporters the state took in $255 million less than projected. He did not specify which budget cuts to make, but said he still wanted to give lawmakers flexibility to address the shortfall. Democrats […]
Normally this spaced is reserved for local and state matters, but every once in a while I get a bug in my craw to write about national matters. Today that bug is the national Republican Party. I recently looked at some polling data and found that 28-percent of the population identifies themselves as Republicans, but 34-percent […]
Although it was a busy week at the Legislature, here are few tidbits of things you might have missed. Former State Rep. Luke Messer pulled in $100,000 Thursday night at his first fund-raiser in the quest to win the primary in the 5th Congressional District. Speaking of money, City-County Councilors Ryan Vaughn and Jose Evans […]
