Showing posts with label ballard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ballard. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Had Enough Indy? How Ballard's "Freedom Fleet" Saves (sic) Money

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I am so very weary of the fleecing the taxpayer gets under the Ballard regime.  The latest example is the belatedly announced deal to leas...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Ballard Tax Revenues About $100 Million More Than Peterson Had

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What can you say about the Ballard Administration's request to drop the local Homestead Credit (increasing taxes on most property owner...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Jon Murray Tracks Down SuperBowl Ring Mystery

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The mystery of the Value of the SuperBowl ring has been solved by IndyStar's City Beat reporter, Jon Murray. As you will recall, Gary ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

2012 Budget - Big Picture, Big Problems

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Over the next couple of weeks the City-County Council committees will offer final amendments to each of their segments of the 2012 budget.  ...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Robbing The Downtown TIF - How Will The Feds Feel About It?

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Plans are to rob $38.5 million from the consolidated downtown TIF district, in order to make ends meet for the City in 2012 (see earlier blo...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

IMPD Budget Shows 5% Cut

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The introduced 2012 budget is curious in many ways.  Some of the anomalies will surface in this blog entry.  The topic for this morning is t...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Is The Sale Of City Assets The Real Reason For This Year's Budget Chrunch?

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This is the fifth year that I have spearheaded the budget review effort of the Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations.  Each ye...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Ballard Pushes New TIFs Forward - Attempts To Complete Before Term Of Office Up

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With a schedule that appears to be reverse engineered to beat the expiry date of Ballard's _____ (first, last) term, the Mayor is pushin...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Cash Flows At The CIB

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Its like we have our very own soap opera.  Instead of who is sleeping with whom, we have the always entertaining exhibition of the Capital I...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Our2012SB, Inc., Tax Returns

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What I hope to accomplish with my posts on Super Bowl 2012 is to get the City of Indianapolis to divulge all that it has committed to do for...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Oy Vey ! They Are Robbing The Downtown TIF District - AGAIN !

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I don't know if it was luck that I had too much to do yesterday, so I couldn't blog about how intrigued I was with the Ballard Admin...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

City Way - The Rebranding Of North of South

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You know that a deal stinks to high heaven when the powers that be are forced to rename it. So it went the other day, when Mayor Greg Ball...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

More News About Broad Ripple Parking Garage Deal - Sheesh !

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In what ranks as a truly convoluted and weird twist in the ongoing saga of the bad Broad Ripple Parking Garage deal, WRTV reporter, Kara Ken...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Superbowl 2012 - What Are They Trying To Hide?

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The Superbowl Ordinance, Proposal 188, 2011 , now before the City-County Council's Rules and Public Policy Committee, leaves a lot of bl...
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

IBJ On Topic Yet Again

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The IBJ is on top of it, yet again.  In today's issue, Cory Schouten follows up on the issue of the Broad Ripple Parking Garage .  (Unfo...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The All Important Budget Season Ready To Commence

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By July 1, the County Assessor must report all real and personal property gross assessed values to the County Auditor.  This starts the budg...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Request for Information From You, My Valued Reader

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I am still as stunned and appalled as when I read yesterday, that the Ballard administration decided to "forgo collecting business pers...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Are They Insane, Stupid, or Totally Corrupt? Had Enough Indy ?

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I just got home from doing my grocery shopping and got my copy of the IBJ out of my mailbox.  I saw the front page article by reporter Fra...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Are Taxpayer Dollars Being Flagrantly Misused?

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Yesterday I posted about the announced Broad Ripple parking garage and some tidbits I had gathered by simply going through government public...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Tidbits on the Proposed Broad Ripple Garage Project

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The announcement of the use of a third of the up front money collected by the City from the sale of the parking meter system to fund a garag...
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