Indiana

I HATE BEING SICK

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

This week was tough on your favorite blogger/pundit.  I was hit with whatever bug is running around.  I don’t get sick very often, but when I do it’s a killer.  (Superman in a room full of kryptonite is the best analogy).  What made it worse was I couldn’t take time off from my 20-million jobs or end up getting way behind on the big issues of the day.  Luckily, I just barely managed to keep up.   Now that I’m better, I want to give you guys a preview of next week’s postings.

I plan to sit down and talking to Mayor Greg Ballard about his first few weeks in office, and I will ask about his appointment of Bob Grand as the head of the Capital Improvement Board and whether that runs contrary to his campaign pledges regarding lobbyist and government.

I’ll also be talking with Chief Justice Randall Shepard about the Indiana Constitution and what it means and how it should be interpreted, particularly when it comes to property taxes and the nature and structure of local government.  I’ve noticed a lot of postings lately about the state constitution so if you’ve got a question for the Chief Justice, feel free to submit it.

We’re also going to take a close look at the 7th Congressional District with State Rep Carolene Mays having filed for the primary as well as David Orentlicher and former state Insurance Commissioner Woody Meyers expected to file as well to challenge Andre Carson for the job, we’ll see if the machine that got Carson slated a few weeks ago is still running smooth, or might there still be civil war in the air.

It is so nice to be back at full strength.  When I couldn’t finish my steak dinner and martini earlier this week, I knew it was going to bad.

See you Monday.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).