Well, it’s that time of year where I trot out my top ten stories of 2015. So here we go, in reverse order to get you to read all the way down to the bottom… Dan’s Departure – Dan Coats decides not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. I was planning to list all the […]
A proposal is being introduced at Monday night’s City-County Council meeting that would raise Mayor-elect Joe Hogsett’s expected salary from $95,000 to $125,000 annually when he takes office in January. In the world of bad ideas, politically speaking, this ranks up there with inviting Jared Fogel over to babysit. As I wrote over at Indy […]
The last thing I was expecting to hear Saturday afternoon when I picked up the phone was that my fellow Indy radio talk show host Amos Brown had died. Amos died of a heart attack while visiting his family in Chicago. Much of the Indianapolis community has offered its words of condolences and perspective on […]
Well, it’s not every day I get asked to leave a political event where the public is invited, but Sunday was one of those days. The Joe Hogsett Mayoral campaign held a “jobs fair” at Marian University. The point of it was for Joe to go into more details about his plans to put a […]
This may sound odd, but if you are a Republican who does not live in Indianapolis, you should be concerned about the Indy Mayor’s race. Why? Allow me to explain. Later this week, Marion County Republicans are slated to unveil their candidate for Mayor. Right now the only candidates that have filed are former Fall […]
I am no longer disappointed that my good friend Greg Ballard isn’t running for a third term, because Democrat Joe Hogsett is doing it for him. As I listened to the speech that Hogsett gave Wednesday at the Kennedy-King Memorial at 17th and Broadway, everything he spelled out that he wanted to do Ballard has […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard tells me that he is not running for a third term. In his office Wednesday afternoon Ballard said after eight years it was time to move on. He says he was not phased by Tuesday’s Democratic victories in Marion County. He cited polling that had his approval ratings in the 70s. […]
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 […]
When I talk to my Democratic friends about now former U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett running for Mayor of Indianapolis in 2015, you would think they were talking about the second coming and the only thing missing is the donkey and the palm leaves. I don’t blame them, there has to be something frustrating about Greg […]
I have always argued that when dealing with crime, more cops doesn’t equal less crime unless you do some other things, like keep the bad guys behind bars and mitigate the conditions that make new ones. The plan Mayor Greg Ballard announced today does just that. It adds nearly 280 more police officers over the […]
