Indiana Blog Review

Your Attention Please

Paul Musgrave was one of the first if not the very first (as my colleague Josh Claybourn claims) bloggers in Indiana.  On Saturday, he bode farewell to blogging with his last post at PaulMusgrave.Com.

I've always enjoyed Paul's blogging and am proud and humbled to have been his co-blogger on two group blogs.  Every blogger could benefit from some sober contemplation of his thoughts on the medium.

We're In the Money

Doug Masson:

Voting for Privatizing the Toll Road and supporting (or at least not
impeding) Daylight Saving Time appears to have been very lucrative for northern Indiana Republicans. The campaign finance reports are coming in, and they make for some interesting –to a geek such as myself– reading.

A Trilogy of Government Reform

Abdul takes an exciting look at the plot for Indy Works, Part III.

De Bate

Craig @R&F reviews the Souder-Hayhurst debate.

Keep New Jersey Out of Indiana

Bil Browning takes on Brian Bosma taking on gay marriage.

Meanwhile, Chris Douglas peers a little closer:

It would be a mistake to interpret the Governor's carefully worded statement as support for this sweeping amendment, and instead it is appropriate  to understand the Governor's statement as support for the traditional definition of marriage and concern for the use of that definition as an excuse for discrimination.

The Hoosier Dome

Advance Indiana, "Taxpayers should be absolutely outraged by the fiscal practices of the city on the RCA Dome, but the city has no qualms about what it's doing."

Amazing Poll

Mark Rutherford posts some exciting news:

Results of last night's poll commissioned by the Libertarian Party of Indiana on Libertarian Rex Bell's Indiana House District 54 race:

Among Decided Voters
Saunders (R) (I) : 35.4%
Bell (L) : 33.1%
Sadler (D) 31.3%

Wow.

The Fightin' 9th

Scott Fluhr comments on Bush's visit to help out Mike Sodrel and the situation in the 9th District.

He also looks at recent polling and the spoiler effect of Shansberg.

And finally, a review of Hill and Sodrel's appearance on WTHR's "Indiana Insiders."

More Sober

Jen Wagner posts some documents that shed new light on the Hamilton Avenue massacre:

Two weeks later, after it became apparent that a high-risk criminal had slipped through the cracks and helped commit the city's worst homicidal attack in history, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi undertook a bizarre combination of back-pedaling, grandstanding and rewriting history.

Once Again . . .

The Marion County Prosecutor's race makes me chuckle -- or rather, Matt Tulley did.

First, "After all those TV commercials, it will be nice to see Brizzi without the smoke billowing around him."

Second, "One glaring problem with Kennedy's analysis is that her campaign included as a 'loss' cases in which suspects were convicted of much more serious charges -- such as attempted murder -- instead of domestic violence."