Now that a federal judge has ruled Marion’s County system of selecting judges is unconstitutional, it’s time to come up with a new system to pick the individuals who impartially dispense justice. For those of you who aren’t aware, under the old system Democrats and Republicans got to pick the number of judges based on […]
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has caught a lot of grief over the last few months for defending Indiana’s marriage statute. Because he defended the statute which defined marriage as one man and one woman, some people think his motivation was that he was opposed to same-sex marriage. In all the time I written about […]
I have been called a lot of not so pleasant names in my 40-something years of living on this planet, and most of them were true. However, whenever I get called a “liberal” I have to take a little bit of an issue. In the wake of recent legal decisions, my position on same-sex marriage […]
When I go down the list of things that I worry about, the Ebola virus is not one of them. As you may be aware the Center for Disease Control announced Monday the first diagnosed case of Ebola here in the United States. According to media reports, the unidentified man left Liberia on September 19 […]
Although I am more of a “Target” person, I find myself in the odd position of using this space to defend Wal-Mart. I was recently in my boyhood neighborhood on the South side of Chicago checking on my parents who are getting up there in years. I took my Dad grocery shopping and instead of […]
Whenever I am asked whether Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard will run for a third term, my answer is pretty simple. It depends on the day you catch him; some days he is gung ho, other days he’s ready to call it a day. Ballard ignited a lot of speculation about his future this past week […]
The Indiana Public Access Counselor has issued an advisory opinion saying it believes the Department of Education violated the state’s public access law when it failed to respond to my request last year for e-mails regarding former Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett. A copy of the opinion can be found here. The request […]
Normally when I go cover a city budget address, I don’t expect to walk into the middle of a controversy. Here’s what happened. I went to the Indy City-County Council meeting Monday night to cover the Mayor Greg Ballard’s budget address. In the Council Chambers, several Democratic Councilors displayed signs saying “Hands Up…Don’t Shoot” And […]
I’ve been out of town for a few days, but even in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan my wife and I couldn’t get away from news coverage of what’s going on in Ferguson, MO. I think I can speak somewhat intelligently on this seeing how I spent three years going to law school in St. […]
There is a new exhibit coming to the Marion County Public Library this week that is definitely going to stir a lot of controversy, but more importantly I hope it stirs a lot of thought. It is called “Kin Killin Kin”. Yes, the initials are KKK. And no, we’re are not talking about something out […]
