After promising that the Detailed 2013 Indianapolis Budget Book would be released to the City-County Council and to the public, late Monday Mayor Greg Ballard and City Controller Jeff Spaulding pulled back on that promise. Afternoons with Amos learned that Spaulding’s office notified City-County Council officials that the full details of the 2013 City/County budget […]
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. […]
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 […]
ANALYSIS: Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has presented his 2013 Budget for the City of Indianapolis and Marion County to the City-County Council. The controversial budget includes recommendations to eliminate a property tax savings for middle and lower income homeowners that would become a full fledged property tax increase. After recently jacking up the salaries of […]
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 […]
The Democratic majority on Indianapolis’ City-County Council is joining the outrage many in the city/county have over those large pay raises given to Mayor Greg Ballard’s staff. Afternoons with Amos and PraiseIndy.com first revealed the pay raises late last month. The raises ranged from 6% to 22% and in dollar amount up to $22,000. City-County […]
At a time when the budgets of Indianapolis city and county departments and agencies are being cut, and layoffs of city and county workers could occur, the office of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has raised salaries of his employees in the midst of a projected multi-million dollar budget deficit. Mayor Ballard recently OK’d raises for […]
Afternoons with Amos and Amos Brown is putting out an appeal for HELP! We need to come together to do what we can to help a local youth program. In 1994, a local Black minister, Rev. Malachi Walker, began working with young Black boys in inner city neighborhoods. Young Men, Inc. is a summer youth […]
In a wide ranging interview on Afternoons with Amos, the leadership of the Indianapolis City-County Council blasted the Ballard Administration for a lack of leadership on a number of issues. In their latest monthly appearance, Council President Maggie Lewis, Vice-President Brian Mahern and Majority Leader Vernon Brown said a major problem was the failure of […]
Dr. Frank Straub, the highly controversial Public Safety Director, named 28 months ago by Mayor Greg Ballard, suddenly announced his resignation Friday. Straub will continue in his post for three months until August 1st. Straub, the former Public Safety Director of White Plains, New York, generated a firestorm of criticism from the community and police […]
Shock. anger, disgust, disappointment. That’s just some of the reactions of Indianapolis Black community leaders and Afternoons with Amos listeners to the bombshell announcement of more scandal and malfeasance in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski has been forced to resign. The head of the Department’s internal affairs division has been placed […]
On AWA, City-County Council Leaders Insist On Solving City’s $$ Crisis; Demand Leadership From Mayor
Leaders of the Indianapolis City-County Council are demanding leadership from Mayor Greg Ballard in solving the over $30 million funding crisis in the city/county’s Public Safety Agencies. Appearing on Afternoons with Amos, City-County Council President Maggie Lewis, Majority Leader Vernon Brown and At Large Councilmen Zach Adamson and John Barth talked frankly about the city’s […]
