An extensive multi-media campaign to help reduce the levels of Black-on-Black violence and overall violence and crime in the community has been launched by Mayor Greg Ballard and a consortium of community, media and faith based leaders. Mayor Ballard launched the program along with Public Safety Director Troy Riggs at an event at Washington Park […]
Mayor Greg Ballard has unveiled his plan to reduce “black-on-black” violence in Indianapolis. The “Your Life Matters” initiative includes mentorship, employment programs and reentry services for youth, along with counseling services for parents. Citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ballard said Wednesday the city loses “more young men of color to murder than […]
Leaders of the Democratic majority in Indianapolis’ City-County Council slammed Mayor Greg Ballard’s 2014 State of the City Speech. Appearing on Afternoons with Amos, Council President Maggie Lewis, Vice-President John Barth and Majority Leader Monroe Gray assailed Ballard for a speech with plenty of platitudes but no solutions to Indianapolis’ pressing problems. Council President Lewis […]
Ryan Vaughn, Chief of Staff to Mayor Greg Ballard expanded and amplified on mayor Ballard’s 7th State of the City Speech emphasizing the Mayor’s efforts to make Indianapolis a desirable place for people to want to live. Appearing on Afternoons with Amos’ Friday edition with Amos & Abdul, Vaughn expanded upon the themes Mayor Ballard […]
Extreme Cold Poses Serious Health Risks The bitter cold is hanging on for at least another day or two throughout much of the country, including right here in Central Indiana where we are under a Wind Chill Warning. High temperatures in some areas are expected to remain in the single digits Tuesday, for Indianapolis that’s somewhere around one degree, […]
As temperatures in the Indianapolis metro area take a dive to sub-zero lows Monday, that the city hasn’t experienced for decades, more than 30,000 Hoosiers are without power. Indianapolis Power & Light and Duke Energy are working to restore energy to homes however officials say it may take days to restore it. This is creating […]
Indianapolis and Marion County Officials have unveiled a proposal to have a private company build a new consolidated Justice Center that would house the county’s Criminal Courts, an expanded state of the art Marion County Jail, the Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Detention Center, plus offices for the Prosecutor, Probation, Community Corrections and Public Defender. It’s […]
For the second year the City of Indianapolis is sponsoring a competition among most of the city’s high schools and many middle schools to encourage more young people to enter STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) Careers. It’s the 2nd annual Indy VEC Vex Robotics Championships held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Teams from 44 high schools and 40 middle […]
Unlike the mess in Washington where Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on the time of day, the two parties did something unusual in Indianapolis. They agreed and compromised on the 2014 budget for Indianapolis/Marion County. City-County Council President Maggie Lewis and Vice-President John Barth appeared on Afternoons with Amos and talked about the bipartisan budget […]
In an Afternoons with Amos exclusive interview, City-County Councilwoman Christine Scales, a two term Republican Councilwoman speaks out on why the Republican leadership of the Council banned her this week from sitting with the other Republican Councilors during their regular caucus sessions. For years Council members of both parties meet in separate caucuses before each […]
EXCLUSIVE: In a groundbreaking interview, a top leader of the Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) came to the African-American community to open lines of community and make the case that public safety and crime fighting are being compromised by a failure of the City to put resources and dollars behind the city/county’s police. Rick […]
AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS EXCLUSIVE:The day after Brian Mahern appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain why he attempted to remove Maggie Lewis as City-County Council President, Lewis, joined by numerous Council colleagues, appeared on the program with their side of the story. Lewis was joined by Council Vice-President John Barth, veteran Councillors Monroe Gray and […]
