Six of seven Indianapolis Public Schools that were on academic probation could be taken over by the state of Indiana next month. The results are in for seven IPS schools that have been on academic probation for the past five years and six of them failed to make adequate progress under state law. The list […]

Friday at 10:30 a.m. the Indiana Department of Education will release the names of schools that made it off academic probation and will not be taken over by the State.   I’ll have a post up tomorrow. In the meanwhile I thought it would be interesting to post some excerpts on education by the two main […]

U.S. Senator Dick Lugar is hitting the airwaves for 10 days with an ad attacking the President on job creation.  Lugar himself has come under fire from the Club for Growth.  The nice thing about having nearly $4 million in the bank is that you can respond to such attacks.

Now that we’ve cleared the Indiana Black Expo hurdle, I can post about some other things that have been going on. So here is all the gossip, rumor and political innuendo fit to print.  Take it for what it’s worth. The Decatur Township Small Claims Court has made the Wall Street Journal, and not for […]

I thought I was pretty much done on Expo for this year, but I forgot to mention two things.  First there were 26 arrests, 13 traffic tickets written and 5 curfew violations that second Saturday night, which is not bad for thousands of kids downtown. Secondly, listen for this to be the new spin from […]

If Friday night was dress rehearsal, the Saturday night was a command performance. The combined efforts of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Department, State Police, Capitol Police, the Ten-Point Coalition and faith-based community, Indiana Black Expo, parents who acted like parents and teenagers who didn’t act like knuckleheads all came together to […]

Let me start this by giving major kudos to the men and women of law enforcement in Marion County.  The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana State Police and State Capitol Police all did an excellent job Friday night working downtown for the second weekend of Indiana Black Expo. I did my […]

I know you were probably expecting some kind of blog post on Expo today. Don’t worry, I will put one together  this weekend.  Right now, I want to share with you an experience I had Thursday evening downtown.  I was walking back to my car from a meeting (Nicky Blaines) when I heard someone call […]

As hard as I would like to find it to believe but I am already hearing complaints about the number officers who will be working downtown this weekend during Indiana Black Expo.  The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, along with volunteers from the faith-based community, will be patrolling downtown to keep unsupervised young people from getting […]

We’re experiencing technical glitches at the station this morning and are off the air.  While I’m trying to figure out if was Eugene White or Ed Treacy who cut the wires and killed the hamster that runs the generator,  check out the column I wrote for today’s Indianapolis Star.  I think it makes or an […]