With a couple weeks of no session, there was still quite a bit of good gossip, rumor and plain old fashion political innuendo running around town this past week.  So without further adieu… House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Crawford and Speaker Pat Bauer apparently aren’t on the best of speaking terms these days.  Crawford […]

With $30 million down, state and local officials are looking to close a $17 million funding source gap for the Capital Improvement Board.  With things still fluid behind the scenes, no one was willing to go on the record, however talks have centered as of late on how to close $17 million of the $47 […]

Normally this spaced is reserved for local and state matters, but every once in a while I get a bug in my craw to write about national matters.  Today that bug is the national Republican Party. I recently looked at some polling data and found that 28-percent of the population identifies themselves as Republicans, but 34-percent […]

I’m at the Statehouse today and ran into a key lawmaker who says he would not be surprised if Governor Mitch Daniels vetoed whatever budget comes out of the General Assembly.  The Governor has expressed concerns that the budget spends too much money and relies to heavily on federal stimulus dollars.  There’s no word yet […]

If anyone thought a sagging economy and high unemployment might be hurting Indiana Governor Mitch Daniel’s approval ratings they might want to think again. According to a poll conducted last week by the Indiana Association of Realtors,  Daniels has an approval rating of 69 percent.  That’s up five points from September 2008. His favorable ratings […]

Expect a comprehensive statewide proposal to  be this Thursday regarding the Capital Improvement Board and its $35 million operational deficit. Lawmakers are being tight lipped, but the proposal will be included in HB 1604 which created a similar like Capital Improvement Board in Ft. Wayne.  Senator Luke Kenley says the proposal will not only address […]

Here are my thoughts for the morning… Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was featured Friday night on 20/20 about the leasing of the Indiana Toll Road.  It’s a pretty good interview.  Opponents of privatization still don’t make a valid argument about why it was a bad idea. Lawrence Township Trustee Mike Hobbs says he is definitely […]

Here’s some of  the reaction from Tuesday night’s State of the State address… House Speaker Pat Bauer “Creating jobs is more important than extended philosophical debates over taking local government control out of the hands of the public. It should take priority over whether we need to pass constitutional property tax caps, something that cannot […]

I need to make a point of clarification in yesterday’s post.  I talked about Jill Long Thompson’s campaign’s criticism of Governor Mitch Daniels’ travel on the day the stock market lost nearly 800 points.  First, I think her staff should have waited to make a big deal out of this on another news day. More […]

There are a couple polls worth talking about this morning in the Indiana Governor’s race. The Jill Long Thompson camp has just released a poll showing Mitch Daniels with an overall 7-point lead in the Governor’s race. The poll shows Daniels leading 43-36, with 21 percent undecided. The poll also shows Hoosiers are split 43-43 […]