The controversial plan to build a Marion County Justice Center that would include a new Marion County Jail and new building to house the county’s Criminal Superior Courts is heating up. Council Democrats, stung by the problems surround a lack of honesty over the arrangements to create the county’s Regional Operations Center (ROC) are slowing […]

In a contentious interview, Mayor Greg Ballard’s Deputy Mayor in charge of Economic Development Adam Collins couldn’t adequately explain why goals for minority-owned businesses and even what minority-owned businesses have been contacted to be part of the massive 1,270,000 square foot Marion County Criminal Justice Center.  A project that will cost the city $1.6 Billion […]