This morning four people are dead and more than 40 people are injured following the collapse of the State Fair stage at last night’s Sugarland concert. High winds that came through the area last night were responsible. There isn’t much to comment on this politically, but it is a reminder about how tragedies can happen […]
When I read about the scandal involving Indianapolis State Representative Phil Hinkle I was as shocked and surprised as a lot of other people. The Indianapolis Star has reported on e-mail exchanges between Hinkle and an 18-year old male which infer Hinkle offered him $80 via Craigslist spend time together at the JW Marriott downtown. […]
When I came to Indy on Labor Day 2004, the first thing I did was look up Indy Star stories on the city’s budget. One of things that struck me was then Democratic-controlled City-County Council’s decision to take $100 million borrowed to pay for police and fire pension funds and put it toward operating expenditures […]
In my capacity as a speech teacher at Ivy Tech Community College I give my students an assignment for their impromptu speeches. I tell them to take a situation that started out as a negative and turned into a positive. It’s amazing the stories that they tell me. I give them the assignment for two […]
Yes, the rumors are true. I started them. Friday will be my last day as the morning show host at WXNT-AM. I’ll fill you in the morning. However, I can assure I was not caught in a company vehicle with three hookers and blow. If I had you would have seen the pictures […]
I was out all day yesterday attending funeral services for my wife’s aunt so I did not get a chance to put something together for this morning. I will have something up this afternoon. In the meantime, check out my column in today’s Indianapolis Star. I write about entitlements and how the people who get […]
When I attended Monday night’s meeting between the Indianapolis Public School board and the Indiana Department of Education I expected some fireworks between the board and Dr. Tony Bennett and his staff regarding state intervention and possible takeover of six schools that did not make it off academic probation. The meeting overall was pretty tame […]
As you know I recently posted the overall crime stats for the City of Indianapolis. Although crime was slightly down in almost every area, the city saw an increase in aggravated assaults from 2009 to 2010. The number went from 5,271 to 5,726. Democratic Mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy has used those figures to argue the […]
As school gets underway this month for a lot of Hoosier kids I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the Indiana State Teachers Association. ISTA has been at the forefront of criticizing education reforms without offering meaningful alternatives. They’ve also complained about school funding as well. However, if you take a […]
I wasn’t planning to blog again until Monday, but never let it be said a little thing like an out-of-state trial would stand in the way of me picking up lots of gossip, rumor and blatant political innuendo. You know you all have been waiting for it, so here we go… Last week’s debt ceiling […]
