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 […]

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 […]

Here’s most recent list of the slate of candidates for Mayor and City-County Council as of Thursday.  An asterisk indicates which candidate is the incumbent.   As you can see both the Democrats and Republicans have someone running in virtually every seat and the Libertarians are running more candidates than usual as well.  Regardless of which […]

Lots of little interesting tidbits of gossip, rumor and political innuendo to throw out there this morning,  so without further adieu… Freedom Works continues to sit on the fence when deciding whether to get into the Richard Lugar/Richard Mourdock U.S. Senate Primary, despite what’s said officially, the word is they don’t trust the local tea […]

Every once in a while I have one of those days that starts out as pretty routine buts ends up pretty odd. Monday was one of those days. I was originally going to drive over to Cincinnati for an interview with U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner, unfortunately the Secretary cancelled at the last minute and […]

I’ve always said that if you stick around politics long enough you will eventually see everything.  That is definitely true in the race for Mayor of Indianapolis  The new topic du jour  is crime and the number of police officers on the street. Democratic challenger Melina Kennedy says the incumbent Greg Ballard is drooping the […]

The nice thing about being back from a tough road trip is the political gossip, rumor, innuendo and other political tidbits that are either waiting for you when you get back or you picked up over the last few days at political events and just didn’t get a chance to blog about.  So with all […]

This is the fifth and final installment in a series of blog posts this week regarding the possible takeover of several failing Indianapolis Public Schools by the State of Indiana. There is a debate beginning about whether the Mayor of Indianapolis, regardless of who he or she should have control of the schools.  Let’s all […]

Democratic Mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy Wednesday unveiled her “education” plan. Since I’m not on their media distribution list, I can say she and staff were surprised to see me there.  She outlined her proposal and took questions.   I know you all expecting some snide comments and criticism but I’m going to surprise all of […]

The only thing better than getting more than 900 birthday wishes (Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, text messages, phones calls) is the political gossip, rumor and innuendo that comes along with it.   So without further delay, here we go… Governor Mitch Daniels’ mood was described to me Monday as “majorly bummed” because he is not running […]