Today is the lovely Mrs. Shabazz’s birthday so you guys are on your own.  Feel free to pick a topic from IndyPolitics.Org. I have to go be the best husband in the world.

If anti-smoking advocates were hoping to reduce the number of smoking establishments in Indianapolis before the Super Bowl,  they will have to wait until the next one comes to Indianapolis, whenever that is. A proposal that would have banned smoking in most businesses with a few exceptions failed to garner support tonight in the Democrats’ […]

Redistricting is always an interesting process.  I enjoy looking at it from a  political perspective, although it can freak some people out.   I attended the last two hearings on the new proposed City-County Council maps and the one thing that stuck out was the handful of people protesting that the eastside neighborhood of Irvington was […]

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard today met with officials from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in an effort to lure the exchange from the Windy City to the Circle City.   The Dow Jones News wire has reported on the meeting and city spokesman Mark Lotter confirmed the Mayor had left a conference in Wisconsin early to attend […]

(Full Disclosure before you read, I am an independent  contractor with the Indianapolis Star for the monthly column that I write.) This week I saw about 100 people, some of them I know very well, take to the picket lines over at the Indianapolis Star to protest working conditions, cut backs and outsourcing of jobs […]

If you’ve been following this blog you’ve known for a while what happening with the smoking ban.  The Mayor said he would sign off on a plan that exempts private clubs, VFW halls, cigar bars, tobacco shops and hookah bars.  The latest addition includes off track betting parlors.   Right now the measure’s fate lies in […]