Ever since being regulated to the minority, my Democratic friends on the City-County Council have been looking for an issue they think will resonate with voters and help put them back in the majority. One of those issues they’re latching onto is the Capital Improvement Board bailout.  A vote is scheduled for Monday on increasing […]

Although it won’t be made public until next Monday,  Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard says his administration expects to present a balanced budget. The city was facing a $20 million spending gap, which Ballard says his office has managed to close by doing “common sense business practices that should have been done a long time ago.” The […]

Here are a few items of interest to tide you over this afternoon… If they’re going to be on the hook, some members of the City-County Council say they want more say in how the CIB negotiates its sports deals.  Although details are not available at the moment, plans are being drawn which would give […]

Last week on my morning radio show I put an offer on the table that not a lot of listeners took me up on, so I decided to see if I would have better luck here. In the wake of the “Beer Summit” between the President, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge Police Sergeant […]

In my younger days, I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up.    I had excellent teachers in elementary and high school who were challenging and fun at the same time.  When I got to college with the idea of teaching high school math and science.   I had an aptitude for both […]