Tim Brack

@dandakich Covid year

How bout this flying in Hinkle… Can’t make up #Dump

@JATompkins Provide a line item by line item list of expenditures that Indy taxpayers are on the hook for, bet they'd be less willing to add a quarter % pot hole tax than you think.

If I were mayor of Indianapolis, I’d put the pothole problem straight to voters: a referendum for a Local Income Tax at 0.25% “Fix Roads and Plow Streets” Referendum — a time-limited (10-year sunset), independently audited, dedicated fund with a spend formula that prioritizes residential streets (currently only 7% in good condition) and winter operations. No road diets, no transit, no streetscape. Just pavement and plows. This frees up other monies for the fun trails and complete streets and transit stuff while providing an annual match (~$55M) for state monies allocated by HB 1641 for roadways. Quality of life is how we will attract future workers. Good roads are good place to start.

@travisrohrig Broke a lamp at Rex's house because Zeke couldn't catch - of course he was 3 at the time. Lol

My take on Ken Anderson not in the Hall of Fame is that there are too many people who don’t know football and don’t know what they’re watching. Beyond his Hall-worthy statistics, Anderson literally helped redefine offensive football. The late Bill Walsh would tell you as much. He chose Anderson to run his new offense 10 years before he knew of Joe Montana. And yes, the process is a joke. We’ve learned that much over the last two weeks.

The best thing you’ll see today.

@dandakich Kelvin again? You say you could write a book... well write it then. Otherwise, you're just like anonymous source guy. Dude paid price serving 5yr ban and came back better. Self, Williams, Cal, Tark, Pitino...list goes on. None of them even came close to paying price Kelvin did.

This is biggest cheat in college basketball history talking about being "a guardian of basketball" The hypocrisy and arrogance of this clown is fun

@RedsDaily4 It's a good day Jim Day!

GENO IS BACK!!!!!!

@ThrillaRilla369 I agree to some extent, reassessing property every year protects the local politician. It's a way of not "raising taxes" for that politician to be reelected. In same sense, local taxes are usually the best money spent to protect, grow, and provide opportunities in your community

Property tax is just a tax on unrealized gains and I'm tired of pretending it's not. You buy a house for $300k. Years later, market goes up, assessor says it's worth $600k now. Boom—your tax bill jumps, even though you haven't sold a damn thing, pulled equity, or seen a dime of cash from that "gain." You're paying every year on paper wealth that only exists on Zillow or some county spreadsheet. We lose our minds when politicians float taxing unrealized stock gains for billionaires ("muh forced sales!"), but grandma gets hit with the same thing on her family home and we're supposed to call it "paying for schools and roads"? Nah. It's a wealth tax dressed up as a service fee, and it only feels fair because we've normalized it for centuries. Once the mortgage is paid off, you should OWN it outright—no annual ransom to the county just because your neighborhood got trendy. Abolish property taxes on primary residences. Tax consumption if you must, but stop pretending "ownership" means you rent from the government forever.

🚨 BREAKING: A well-organized group has hit the ground in Minneapolis, handing out free winter hats and designer face masks to conceal protesters’ identities. Who is funding this?

I am not moving my family and businesses from Virginia. But something sinister just happened here and I need to take action. I have lived here since I was 6 years old. I have done my share to help build this state up. I have owned a business here since I was 24 years old. I have employed thousands of Virginians. I have invested millions in plant and equipment. I have coached sports, been a leader in scouts, run internship programs, and participated in local philanthropy. I am a political independent. I am for whomever gives me less government. I didn’t get that in the last election. The Virginia Democratic Party has come into power with proposals that seem to be almost comically evil. Massive, business-killing tax hikes. Dramatic increase in regulatory scope. Socialist policies around things like rent control, entitlement spending exploding. Sweeping limits on law enforcement and a reduction in crime consequences that make us less safe. We have went from a Top-5 business friendly state to a place where many of the people in my business community are discussing relocating their business out of the state. I watched this happen in Maryland. I can’t let it happen here. I hate politics. Hate it. I don’t want to run for political office. I have never given money to a state politician. I don’t try to influence policy. I try not to talk about politics too much on X. It’s a boring argument. I also think arguments about R vs D are boring. I have known plenty of moderate Democrats in Virginia that I felt were good public servants. However, the Democrat majority that was recently sworn in is like nothing we have ever seen here. These people are not centrists, and they represent a fringe view that is far to the left of the majority of Virginians. I am now compelled to get much more involved with the political process here in Virginia. We have to grab the wheel before we drive off the cliff. Who should I talk to about becoming more involved in organizing opposition to the current proposals? Who can I support to challenge them in court? Who should I talk to about supporting candidates for future elections that will bring us back to the policies that have made Virginia so prosperous in the past? Looking for specific people I should link up with. That could be Republicans or Democrats or Independents. I know there are many other Virginians from across the political spectrum that feel the way I do. Virginia is worth fighting for.

@BarryOnHere You could say luck for 12 out 15 games every week in NFL. Just about every game between decent teams comes down to 2 or 3 play. A penalty, turnover, dropped pass. Gonna be the GOAT for a long time until someone gets luckier

The problem is, many people think Brady has 7 rings b/c he was just that much better than every other QB ever. But he wasn't, he was just that much luckier. Tuck Rule, now it's 6 rings Dee Ford, now it's 5 rings Seattle runs the ball, now it's 4 rings Atlanta runs the ball, now it's 3 rings Oops, I destroyed Brady's GOAT case by changing just 4 plays. If he was really that dominant, it shouldn't be that easy.

@CollegeHoopsTIk @iceman640 People mistakenly compare college greats to players that had great NBA careers. Braden Smith is a Big10 great compared to Isiah Thomas & even Magic. Both left after sophomore year. Steve Alford better Big10 career than Jalen Rose. Not better players but better college careers.

@iceman640 All time great, sure. But if you’re even going to try and debate top-10, you need to respectfully look at the history of the Big Ten. He’s not even on the cusp.

This is what I meant when I said Braden Smith is great but overrated. Elite player. Elite pass-first point guard. But what are we doing talking about “top ten players on Big Ten history?”

@jasonwhitlock @firstroundmock Must be why it says "former" in front of scout.

Former New York Jets scout Daniel Kelly (@firstroundmock) has a 4th round grade on Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza. Here, he explains why.

@GrowlerPodcast @MoEgger We've seen Duke operate, maybe Brown family is an obstacle for getting deals done early. Cost them a lot of $ with Chase and Tee. Hardball may have saved a long term deal with Trey, but he was pissed enough to make no effort to come back. Get Risner signed now Never Easy Duke

The first offseason test couldn’t be any easier for Duke Tobin. And @MoEgger is watching closely to see if that layup is made.

@IndianaMBB It's a game they really needed to win and they did. Beat the teams you should - home or away. Beat a couple teams you shouldn't. That's how they get back in the tournament. Baby steps.

About the right stuff. 👏

@Average_NY_Guy This country needs a moderate Democratic party. @billmaher said liberalism is becoming extremism and it has permeated the party. Now extremism is winning elections, defending fraud and ruthlessness and defying what most would call common sense. Great article about consequences.

Who Will Build NYC if Builders Are the Enemy? As a New Yorker Jew, I'm surrounded by people who have been in real estate their entire lives. I am not trying to feed a stereotype, but that's my reality. They aren't activists or online commentators. They are people who bought their first buildings with all their savings, carried debt through rate hikes, fixed things themselves when there was no money to hire, and stayed in New York through high crime, recessions, 2008, COVID, rising taxes, insurance increases, and an ever-expanding book of laws and codes. None of them were promised fairness before they started, and none of them were protected from risk. They succeeded very slowly, and painfully, but with responsibly. That experience is exactly what is missing from the worldview of Zohran Mamdani, and it shows in every part of his housing agenda. Mamdani has never built anything. He never signed a personal guarantee, never met payroll, never carried a mortgage through a rough month, never had to choose between fixing a boiler now or hoping it survives another winter because there is no cash. He has only operated in a political world where consequences are abstract and other people absorb the risk. When you have never operated in the real economy, it becomes easy to believe that shortcuts are solutions. It is also why his message resonates with a certain type of voter. The people demanding “housing reforms” are not bad people. They are frustrated renters who feel like the system is rigged against them. I understand the frustration. But frustration doesn't change math. Housing is hard. Ownership is a very slow process. Building anything meaningful in this city takes years of stress, and debt. The people calling for "landlord policies" often want the outcome without the grind, the stability without the risk, and the reward without the years of sweating that every responsible adult who succeeded here had to endure. But it does not work like that. NYC is in housing crisis. Citywide vacancy sits around 1.4 percent, a level economists consider an emergency. Median rents keep rising anyway, with Manhattan near $4,800 and Brooklyn around $3,800, even under an already thick layer of regulation. The reason is obvious. Supply has not kept up. In a good year, New York adds roughly 30,000 units. The city needs hundreds of thousands more over the next decade just to stabilize prices. At the same time, construction costs here are among the highest in the country, financing is extremely difficult, and insurance is wildly expensive Mamdani’s proposals take that fragile situation and make it worse. When you cap upside while leaving downside unlimited, rational people stop participating. Developers do not argue on X. Lenders do not protest. They simply reallocate. Projects stop coming up. Renovations are postponed. New construction dies before a shovel hits the ground. The people I know in real estate are not angry. They are disengaging. Some are buying elsewhere. Some are sitting on cash. Some are done entirely. And when that happens, tenants do not win. Buildings deteriorate, supply tightens further, and rents rise anyway. What Mamdani offers is emotional satisfaction, not solutions. He tells voters that prices are high because someone else is greedy, not because the city has spent decades making housing harder and almost impossible to build. He frames landlords as villains instead of participants in an ecosystem that only works when incentives align. That framing feels good, but it does not produce housing. It produces resentment, fear, and withdrawal. Everyone I know who made it in this city did it the same way. Slowly, without shortcuts. Policies written by people who never did that do not create fairness or affordability. They create shortages. NYC doesn't have a landlord problem. It has a confidence problem. And a city that teaches people to hate the builders while demanding more building is a city sabotaging its own future.

@BengalsTalkSI It would be nice to see Duke start making the easy pick, seen him take too many flyers the last several drafts -Carmen, Volsen, Burton, M. Jackson w verdict still out on Stewart, Knight, Murphy, Jenkins. Further back to Ross, Price, Ogbuehi w better available. Grade D+ keeps job?

Major Praise for Duke Tobin👀👀 si.com/nfl/bengals/on…

@MoEgger Al Golden gets one more opportunity to get a stop with the game on the line. It looks like he gonna go 0 for

If the Bengals and Browns try, they can get this game over by 3:35.

@ENQSports They're stubborn and arrogant. Arrogant in that they believe they know what's best for this team to win. I think they're still heavily involved in personnel decision-making. Makes it tough for them to fire people. You'd think they'd take a different path w yrs of failures.

Jason Williams: When are Cincinnati Bengals fans going to come to grips with the fact that ownership doesn't care what they say or how they feel? cincinnati.com/story/sports/c…

@JamesRapien Every good team has stars they pay big money. The really good teams add a key FA or two and they draft well to build out their team. Duke's last big FA was Trey, 4yrs ago. He's whiffed on 80% of his draft picks last 4 yrs. No organization in NFL would have him at the helm still.

I don't care if Zac Taylor has 10 years left on his contract and Duke Tobin is a blood relative, this question needs to be asked at Paycor Stadium⬇️ 🔗: linktw.in/LwRrXB