INDIANAPOLIS–A group of Massachusetts Avenue stakeholders says the plans to close portions of the street to allow outdoor seating at restaurants need to “immediately be halted.” Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett announced plans to help restaurants by closing portions of five major corridors to vehicular traffic beginning Friday. In a letter to Hogsett, the stakeholders say […]

“Flatten the curve” was a lie. I didn’t want it to be a lie, but it clearly was. It was clearly untrue, clearly something that was said to people like you and me. You know, fools who actually believed that our job was to limit the number of cases of coronavirus happening at one time […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Thursday is the last day to request a mail-in absentee ballot for the June 2 primary election. All registered voters in Indiana are eligible to vote absentee in the upcoming primary. To request an absentee ballot, you must complete form ABS Mail Primary 2020 and return it to your county election office. The deadline to […]

Mock, Daisy, and Rob Kendall joins the Hammer & Nigel Show to talk about how life downtown is about to be different with numerous roads shutting down and dining in the streets, and more! https://omny.fm/shows/hammer-and-nigel-show/hump-day-haps-with-the-chicks-on-the-right-3

Portions of some major Indianapolis streets will close to help restaurants expand outdoor seating amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

(INDIANAPOLIS) — You have till Thursday to request a mail-in ballot for next month’s primary. But for now, there are no plans to extend vote-by-mail to the November election. Secretary of State Connie Lawson says the primary has demonstrated it’s logistically possible to expand vote-by-mail, though she warns it may take two or three days […]

NASHVILLE, Ind.–Close your business or you will be arrested. That is what the owner of Zoo’Opolis in Nashville says she was told by police and the state government because of the coronavirus. “I find this particularly upsetting. If the governor’s executive order is about keeping public safety, then why can’t I open? We are an […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Police officers in Indianapolis will be getting body cameras. The announcement made by Mayor Joe Hogsett Tuesday that the city will be spending $1.2 million that had already been approved by the city-county council to be used for body cameras. That’s not enough money to outfit every officer in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indy Metro Police will be wearing body cameras by September. IMPD plans to outfit 100 officers a week with body cameras, and expects to equip the entire force by September. Mayor Joe Hogsett says the introduction of body cameras was already in the works, but with the controversy over the shooting of Sean […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Department of Health has hired Maximus, a health and human services company, for contact tracing to interview Hoosiers who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Indiana will have at least 500 contact tracers in place in the next couple of weeks. When a person tests positive for the virus, they […]