It was the best of Maherns. It was the worst of Maherns.  Okay, that’s probably a bit much. You probably read my blog yesterday about City-County Councilor Dane Mahern reportedly going to abstain from a vote on a stricter smoking ban because his father Ed Mahern is a lobbyist for the tobacco companies and is […]

Another potential Democratic candidate for Mayor is out of the running.  According to the Indianapolis Times blog, lobbyist Kip Tew has decided not to get into the race for Mayor in 2011. Kip tells the Times that other commitments are keeping him out of the race.  That would be consistent with a conversation he and I had […]

There is talk tonight that City-County Councilor Dane Mahern may abstain from voting on the proposed smoking ban at Monday night’s meeting because a news story scheduled to break later this week that Mahern’s father, Ed, is a lobbyist for the tobacco industry and is holding Dane a fundraiser,  his vote might be tainted. Dane […]

Hey guys, after being out of town for a few days, I’ve managed to get caught up on a few items here and there.  Some you are quite aware of, others maybe not so much.  As always, we are more than happy to print the gossip, rumor and blatant innuendo that we can confirm from […]

I’m out of town today on business, but I figured I’d treat you folks to this wedding photo that I found while looking through about 1000 of them.  It’s something you’ve all probably wanted to do at one time.  My wife is the only one who can get away with it.

Allow me to chime in on the whole Rush Limbaugh/Rams controversy.  I know there are a lot of people who think Rush was booted from a joint bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams because he’s a conservative radio talk show host. Sorry folks, but you’re not looking at the whole picture. Rush was booted […]

You probably figured out that we had some server issues yesterday.   Some of you tried to log on and got a message telling you that you didn’t have permission to access this page. My good friend Kevin Hood who manages the technical aspects of this blog is working to get our problem solved.  So if […]

The following was originally written by Jason Hammer.  Hammer is the host of “Sports Sunday” which airs Sunday nights from 5-8 on Newstalk 1430, WXNT-AM. For arguments sake, let’s just ASSUME that Rush Limbaugh is actually serious about buying the St. Louis Rams and this is NOT a publicity stunt…Let’s just go with that…That being […]

A recent decision by Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy to exercise more control over the local slating process is creating an underground of inter-party resentment that could grow into a major battle based on racial lines. As I told you before,  Treacy is creating rules that would ban anyone from running against the slate […]

My good friend and occasional political counterpart Thomas Cook is opining about some recent recommended reading by Governor Mitch Daniels.  At the last meeting of the Education Roundtable, Daniels handed out a copy of “Real Education” by Charles Murray. According to a review at  Amazon.com, the book stresses four major themes… Children have different abilities. […]