The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, July 27, 2015. A series of meetings and conference calls over the weekend led to various segments of Indianapolis’ African-American leadership to come together to provide some short term immediate solutions to the crisis caused by the sudden closing last week of the city’s four Double 8 Grocery […]

In his worst defeat since becoming Mayor nearly eight years years ago, the Indianapolis City-County Council scuttled one of Mayor Greg Ballard’s top priorities, the Justice Center and placed in serious jeopardy Mayor Ballard’s legacy project, his conversion of the city’s vehicles to electric cars.  The Council voted 16 to 13 NOT to consider revisions […]

The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Wednesday, May 20, 2015. (Located At 02:30 Mark Of Media Player) Strong reaction from listeners along with a Democratic City-County Councilman and the Council’s Fiscal Analyst to the Tuesday Afternoons with Amos interview with the City explaining their 7 year $32 million dollar deal to manage a fleet of […]

In strong statements during an Afternoons with Amos interview, key Democrats on the City-County Council went on the attack against Mayor Greg Ballard and his Administration over the continuing lack of clear information about the Regional Operations Center (ROC) Center. In the interview, Democrats flatly said they won’t move forward with the Mayor Ballard’s Justice […]

Indianapolis is known for speed. And a new effort using an adjective for speed is trying to plan the future of Indianapolis’ Downtown and the neighborhoods that surround Downtown. The effort is called “Velocity” and its spurred by Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.  They’ve recruited a group of volunteers from business and civic organizations to tart to […]

Mincing no words, leaders of the Democratic majority on the City-County Council slammed Mayor Greg Ballard’s criticism of the Council’s passage of a 2013 City-County Budget.  And Council President Ballard also strongly criticized the Mayor for his refusal to not get personally engaged in the budget process; refusing to personally reach out to Council leaders […]

With the refusal of Mayor Greg Ballard to speak to the Black community through Black media about the biggest budget crisis to Indianapolis in decades, City-County Council President Maggie Lewis appeared on Afternoons with Amos doing what Mayor Ballard refuses to do. Answer Indianapolis residents questions and concerns about Indy’s 2013 deficit ridden budget.Joined by […]