Indiana has the pleasure of actually mattering in this Election year. Earlier in the month, Barack Obama visited Plainfield High School. Hillary Clinton visited Ben Davis High School this past Saturday. WXNT producer Chris Spangle covered both and here are his impressions:
Both gyms are of equal size. Both Schools opened space for overflow. Senator Obama [...]

Eliot Spitzer has set off a fire-storm of media-whoring. Everytime I turn on the tv, I see whores. No, not the cast of High School musical, but ladies of the night on Mike and Juliet, 20/20, CNN, (especially) Fox News, MTV (definitely), VH1… Etc….Everyone is disecting this Spitzer story by delving into the secret life [...]

Maybe THIS is why the Fed actually started taking action: Bernanke’s own home down 260K in value
Zig Ziglar says that if you want to get what you want, you have to help enough other people get what they want: Money buys happiness — if you spend on someone else
I’m sorry, but this blog is just [...]

Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
This may not be comforting, but your confusion is shared by many people in the middle of this financial crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/business/19leonhardt.html?ex=1363665600&en=35f7524e6da2b2eb&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

My friend Whitney Allen is working for MTV through November covering Indiana Politics. Check out her site here: http://think.mtv.com/whallen/
She’s asked me to sit in on a political talk show thingy… Check it out here:
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Ok, so I was wrong.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10407955/1/jpmorgan-chase-to-buy-bear-stearns.html
 Last Thursday, Bears was worth $50, and now it’s worth $2?
Uh-Oh.
That means that J.P.M.C./the Fed took a look inside Bears when they offered to bail-out Bears on Friday, and it’s bad. And if one of the largest investment banks in the U.S. is bad, then there may be more banks that are in serious financial trouble. [...]

Two summers ago, gas hit $2.50 to $3.00, and have never looked back. During that summer, there was a panic. Drive-0ffs at gas stations went through the roof, so now almost all gas stations are Pre-pay only. Siphoning theft went through the roof. Credit Card debt is going through the roof. Most of it is [...]

Forget the politics, although it seems as though the General Assembly can’t. Government is by the people, and for the people. So where did Indiana and the U.S. go wrong? This is the real reason for reform:
Hi Abdul,
My story is just one example of why you can’t just take the purchase price and figure a property tax. My [...]

I am taking some heat because I defended Beth White this morning. I remember hanging around the Election warehouse during the counting of the Scott Keller ballots (who won by 3 in a recount in 2003), and watching Doris Anne Sadler cry because of the shady dealings of Ed Treacy and his crowd. We can [...]