Comments on Advance Indiana™: Tully Still Doesn't Get It

"Nuvo really lost any claim as a truly altern...

2011-06-16T11:03:30.825-05:00

"Nuvo really lost any claim as a truly alternative newspaper after Harrison Ullman passed."

Yep.

We still mourn his loss on the Indy journalism scene.

Hammer is a one trick pony. I wondered what he wou...

2011-06-16T08:14:29.407-05:00

Hammer is a one trick pony. I wondered what he would do when he didn't have George Bush to kick around anymore. Well, he just keeps bashing away at Bush for every problem that besets us whether there is any relationship or not. Nuvo really lost any claim as a truly alternative newspaper after Harrison Ullman passed. The last hard reporting they did was a review of local strip clubs that advertise in its publication. They didn't even bother to review Dick Cady's book, Deadline: Indianapolis, even though he was a former writer for their publication. The Star didn't write one either. Matt Tully should be totally ashamed of himself for never writing a column about Cady's book. Either he was ordered not to write about it by Ryerson, or he wasn't about to draw attention to the former Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and columnist with whom he has been less than favorably compared.

Steve Hammer at NUVO is also another long time col...

2011-06-16T08:05:13.824-05:00

Steve Hammer at NUVO is also another long time columnist who has defended both Peterson and now Ballard. Tully is a bright guy, and when he writes about education, you can tell it's well researched and he has a passion for it. But it seems like he takes the easy way out when discussing local and state politics.

It is a question of priorities! Straub's pr...

2011-06-16T08:00:06.852-05:00

It is a question of priorities!

Straub's priorities have been to build a luxury suite of offices for his royal highness, pay for senseless PERF study, and hire the largest personal staff ever in our City's Dept of Public Safety.

Here is a challenge: Add up the total cost of Straub's suite of offices, salaries for his personal CPA, deputy directors, public relations staff, PERF study, and the various police office space reallocation movements he ordered for no good reason, and police salaries for those now assigned to be Straub's personal servants and how much money would be in the pot? Would that be enough to have hired/trained enough new police officers to keep the COPS grant?