UPDATED – REACTION FROM BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: The Administration of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard refuses to reveal how much city contract dollars have been spent with Black-owned businesses. Last month, Mayor Ballard told an audience at a Black Expo Breakfast that the City had spent a half billion dollars with minority businesses since 2008.  […]

  Angry, yet determined, leaders of the Indianapolis City-County Council blasted Mayor Greg Ballard’s recent criticism of the Council.  During a wide ranging interview on Afternoons with Amos, Council Majority Leader Vernon Brown and Councillors Monroe Gray and Pam Hickman, all Democrats, characterized as “false” and “not true” the Mayor saying that the Council had […]