hey guess what, more poop in Indianapolis waterways

overflows have occurred in the past 72hours.
The affected areas include:
White River downstream from 56th Street, Fall Creek downstream from Keystone Avenue, Little Eagle Creek downstream from Michigan Street, Eagle Creek downstream from the confluence of Little Eagle Creek, Pogues Run downstream from 21st Street, Pleasant Run downstream from Kitley Avenue, State Ditch downstream from Southern [...]

more poop in Indianapolis surface water

Rain fell from the sky last night.  Therefore, there’s raw sewage over flowing in our creeks and rivers today, 9/9/08.
www.indycleanstreams.org

Indianapolis, raw sewage is flowing through your waterways today [alert]

Publicly owned, privately owned, I don’t care.  I don’t care that this has been happening for years.  If this is not a consistant topic of conversation on something as convenient as the Internet, then we deserve it.  Got this e-mail alert from the city that no one should come close to anything that resembles flowing [...]

Indianapolis ranks 7th on list of cities that buy junk food

Indianapolis ranks 7th on a national list of cities that buy the most junk food per capita. Forbes magazine based the ranking on a recent survey that used eight categories: cookies, ice cream, frankfurters, carbonated sugar drinks, candy, snacks (including chips and pretzels), pizza and bakery goods, (including donuts and cake).
The article points to various [...]

Does the Indianapolis Star ‘get’ Internet-based news?

I’ve got a couple of gripes with our state capital’s leading newspaper that are enough to push me over the edge and look elsewhere for links to use in my blog posts.

Collecting information to access random articles.  This is just a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things.  But if you are looking to increase traffic [...]

Andre Carson at the DNC – “I’m a product of the [Indianapolis] village”

Via Wilson46201 at Blueindiana.net, we get a great interview from Rep. Carson at the Democratic National Convention:

Rep. Carson pays respect to Indiana’s 7th Congressional district and his grandmother with his statements around being raised by the Indianapolis village.  The village here in Indianapolis, despite its serious problems (IMPD, dirty air, dirty water, etc.), is a diverse landscape [...]

Andre Carson lends a hand to a battered IMPD

From andrecarsonforcongress.com(and curiously not his official House web site), Carson has secured a half million dollars to to fund technology upgrades for the Indianapolis Metro Police Department.  These laptops in patrol cars and a corresponding broad band network will “allow police officers to spend more time out on patrol keeping the streets safe and less time [...]

Soot in our lungs – IDEM fails us again and why this matters

Following on the heals of IDEM accusations of being too cozy with business interests in the state, our department of environmentalbusiness management gets trumped by the EPA and the federal agencies inclusion of 14 counties.
Why does this matter?
Via McClatchy:
Even a day of air that meets federal standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency exposes people to as many [...]

Upcoming documentary asks, “How did corporations end up owning our water?”

FLOW is a 2008 Sundance film focusing on both the positive and negative aspects of a potential global water crisis.  This is a film Nap town residents, being Veolia customers and neighbors with Veolia Water’s North American headquarters.  The film interviews scientists and activists to evaluate the looming water crisis and the corporate and government culprits behind it.  From [...]

Twitter, a major variable in the open government equation

I want to know what Andre Carson is up to.  I want him to start blogging frequently.  He’ll look cool and hip.  Plus, we’d get to know what the freshman representative is up to. His official House blog kind of sucks.  It’s last update was mid-June!  That’s not good enough Andre!  We helped get you elected into [...]