Showing posts with label mayor ballard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mayor ballard. Show all posts
Thursday, September 3, 2015

City Loses No Time Asking for Bids On Electric Fleet

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Today's paper reports that just yesterday, Mayor Ballard and Council President Lewis  signed an agreement over the new electric car flee...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Board of Public Works Approves $6 M Expenditure for Blue Indy Infrastructure

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Blogger Gary Welsh over at Advance Indiana has been following the Blue Indy contract with the Ballard Administration (see here and here fo...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Ballard Uses Neighborhood Services to Shill For Blue Indy

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The Ballard Administration is pushing out ads for Blue Indy's electric car rental for profit business. Like many of you, I receive mes...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

State Legislature Meddling in Indy Yet Again

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Last night began the City-County Council committee work to review, amend, and adopt the 2016 budget. There was one particular item that go...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Can We Just Stop With The Lying?

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So the income taxes are going up. Front and center in the IndyStar review of last night's vote of the Council , is this quote from Cou...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Slow Down the Criminal Justice Center Bullet Train

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The Ballard Administration no longer pretends that it is transparent. The behind closed doors decisions being made regarding the proposed ...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

$3 Million of TIF Money (Taxpayer Money) Going To Enrich IndyStar

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Resolution 2014-B-002 goes to the MDC for a vote Wednesday. This resolution would float $5.5 Million in bonds as taxpayer investment in t...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Rebuild Indy 2 - How We Pay for Roads Is Important

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What's holding up Rebuild Indy 2? To hear some tell it, Council Democrats. Let me disclose right here, I am a Democrat, even though ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Follow the Money

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A long time ago now, the Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations began following the City's annual budget based on one propo...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Update on SB 188 and Its Applicability to Marion County

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Last week I noted some of the exciting changes the Legislature enacted through SB 118 .  Well, an alert reader gave me a heads up that the ...
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Onus of TIFs Not Equally Shared

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Anyone who has followed this blog for very long knows that TIF districts cause all of our tax rates to rise, account for at least half of th...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Parking Meter "Windfall" - Profit - Or - Loss ?

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I read and see reports of the jump in revenues the City collected from ParkIndy last year; amounting to some $3 Million ( click here for one...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Council Meets Tonight

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The Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council meets tonight.  The agenda lists a couple of items that caught my eye. Among those Pr...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Mayor Removes Airport Director - Curiously Says Its About Economic Development

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Anyone who had any reservations accepting the idea that nothing happens at the airport that the Mayor does not want to happen, need only loo...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Is Anyone Really Surprised? Parking Meter Deal Nets Less Than Expected

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Its not like the Ballard Admininstration truely sold the residents of Indianapolis on the desirability of leasing our parking meters to an A...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Taxpayer Fleecing For NO-SO (aka City Way) Continues

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On Monday night, the Council's Metro & Econ Devel Committee heard a number of interesting Proposals.  One of those was Prop 66 , app...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Decatur Township - (Part 3 - More than a parking facility)

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Like all neighborhoods of Marion County, Decatur Township has a unique blend of opportunities and challenges.  I have spoken to a number of ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Broad Ripple Parking Garage - Farce Extraordinaire

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Its like we all went through the Looking Glass with Alice the day the City opted for the Keystone Group's proposal to build a garage on ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Indy Star Calls Ballard's Comments Like They Were

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Today's Indy Star editorial calls out the Kennedy campaign - softly, but still it calls it out - on their deliberate warping of the fact...