Indiana Blog Review

Experimenting with Votes

FWOb on the future of elections.

Poor Indy

Jim Shella says there will be no GOP convention in Indianapolis inthe foreseeable future.  Oh well, a Superbowl would do very nicely instead.

The State of Estate

Joe Shoemaker on real estate in Central Indiana:

Let’s get VERY clear here. The local population is not growing at the same rate as new home construction . . .

From a housing perspective, we’re not building homes for people who are just moving to the area. We’re building and filling houses in the suburbs for and with people now living mostly in Marion County . . .

Madison, Delaware, Putnam, Henry, Owen, Brown, Bartholomew and Monroe counties are rapidly shipping people into the region. Leaving the small, rural areas and schools for the big city.

Your Attention Please

Three:

• My Personal Asylum by Jon - "There are now FOUR Fort Wayne Libertarians who run their own blogs," says Mike Sylvester.
• ManfredEye.  - "Looks like there’s a new blog in town: An Indianapolis blogger focused primarily on politics," says Doug Masson.
• Chris Hardie has started a new web thingy: Progressive Wayne County - "an interactive community site that promotes and chronicles the progressive efforts of individuals, organizations and businesses in the area," says he.

Price Floor

Advance Indiana and First Republican Chris Douglas have extensive analyses of the Indiana Democratic Party's proposal to increade the state minimum wage.

Mortgage Sweet Mortgage

Karen Celestino-Horseman:

It is time for Indianapolis and Indiana to take action and decide how we are going to address the growing problems with predatory lending and mortgage fraud or else the number of empty houses festering illegal activities in our neighborhoods is going to continue to grow.

UPDATE:  Advance Indiana, " I have received countless of calls at my law office over the past two to three years from Marion Co. homebuyers complaining about being the victim of similar schemes."

Ike for Mayor

Matt Tully: "By the way, my hope was to save this story for Friday's paper. But the hard-working blog Advance Indiana has posted an e-mail Randolph sent to potential campaign supporters, so the news is out."

It's like a mobius strip of blogging.

Update: AI reviews Tully's column.

I Knew You Were Going to Post That

Dan Noland at the Indiana Skeptics blog takes a look at a recent training session held for police ooficers in the Greenfield area by . . . The Amazing Kreskin!

The Content of their Characters

Abdul pokes holes in the theory "that Indianapolis' Black politicians are under 'assault' and there is a 'conspiracy to get them.'"

Meanwhile, Advance Indiana says there is a very real assault on black Republicans, like, for instance, Eric Dickerson.

The Fightin' 9th

TPM Muckraker and Doug Masson have more on the robocalling for Sodrel.