As many of you know this site was originally called Porter County Politics, that's where I live and that was my topic and niche of choice. As we added authors the topics widened to include Presidential campaigns and Statewide, but a lot of content on other region counties. I decided then to change the name to Northwest Indiana Politics so that we could have a wider readership.
Today though, for my own small part, I wanted to touch on a few Porter County issues and stories that we should all be watching:
The Porter County Assessor, Auditor and Treasurer are going jointly to the County Council on Tuesday to request $249,000 in additional funds. I know all the guys and like them, have endorsed all three personally in their elections. (some edits here as I did some research today) it appears the biggest issue in all three offices is the relative mess they inherited from the Dems that were in control last year.
More filings in Porter County for races, I'll try to get a complete list from the election office and post this week, only real surprises were 5 Republicans running for 2 at-large spots on Valpo council. A loony democrat kid and a rumored independent run by Bob McCasland the only people willing to try their hand at Mayor Costas. Watch for the loony kid to be asked to step down so Dems can appoint someone willing to lose this time and run again in 2015 when Costas is gone. So the only real fun race to watch will be this at-large race with some new faces.
