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Good day to you on this National Voter Registration Day.
The Greater Indianapolis Branch of the NAACP, along with collaborators and volunteers from Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Incorporated, the Indianapolis Chapter of Indiana Black Expo and more, is observing this day set aside to promote civic and political involvement by registering people to vote in the Indianapolis community. Volunteers will be waiting to serve you at the East 38th Street Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library from 3:30 p.m. until 6 p.m.
Donald Trump is still pointing here to Indy as an example of what’s wrong with the nation’s trade policies.Trump injected Indy’s Carrier plant into Monday night’s Presidential Debate. Trump said the plant is moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico. Trump has said at rallies held in this state that he’d slap a 35-percent tax on Carrier products made in Mexico. (More on the debate below in “National Headlines”.)
Hot off the heels of Monday’s presidential debate, local politics take center stage today. The candidates for Indiana governor will go head-to-head in a debate at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at Lawrence North High School. The town hall style event will feature all three candidates vying to be the next leader of the state Democrat John Gregg, Republican Eric Holcomb and Libertarian Rex Bell for about an hour. This is the first of at least three debates planned by the Indiana Debate Commission. The debate should be posted on the commission’s YouTube channel page to watch later, HERE.
Autopsies are scheduled for later today as police look for answers about how two children died. Authorities reported seven-year-old Liliana Hernandez and six-year-old Rene Pasztor missing on Monday. Police issued a statewide Amber Alert. But officers found them a few hours later, dead in the back seat of their mother’s car when she approached an officer to report it. Investigators aren’t saying how they died or why their mother may have killed them.
A Detroit man convicted of kidnapping two teenage girls in Indianapolis could spend the rest of his life in prison. John Thomas will be sentenced on December 8. Prosecutors say he took the girls in 2015 and held them for ransom because he couldn’t find their sister, who Thomas claimed stole cocaine and pills from him. One of the girls was found tied up in a vehicle in Detroit, while the other was dropped off at a Taco Bell in Ohio and given money to get back to Indianapolis.
Fishers’ new police chief is being sworn in. The ceremony for Mitch Thompson will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. at the police department headquarters. Thompson replaces former Police Chief George Kehl, who’s retiring after nearly 40 years. Thompson has been with the Fishers Police Department since 1991.
To Your Health…
If you have insurance from IU Health through the ‘Obamacare’ exchange, you’re going to have to find a new insurance provider. IU Health officials announced on Monday they’re dropping out of the exchange next year. IU Health says Obamacare exchange customers need to find a new provider. No word how many patients are being dropped.
National…
The first presidential debate is creating plenty of buzz after Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went at it. The two clashed over the economy and foreign policy and interrupted each other several times Monday night at New York’s Hofstra University. They accused each other of falsehoods and distortions with Clinton frequently urging “fact-checkers” to get to work on Trump’s claims.
The question of relations with minorities in this country and policing came up during the debate. Donald Trump’s response called for law and order in America’s inner cities and a return to “stop-and-frisk” policing. The Republican said he agrees with Democrat Hillary Clinton that better relations are needed between police and minority communities. Clinton said “stop-and-frisk” has proven to be ineffective. Moderator Lester Holt of NBC News, in a corrective fact-checking moment, said the practice was found to be unconstitutional.
So fact-checkers are indeed looking into the two major Presidential candidates’ positions on the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing policy once used in New York City. Trump praised the tactic, claiming that murders have increased after New York stopped using it. Here’s what the fact-checkers are reporting: “Wrong.” NYPD data shows murders are down compared to this time last year. Democrat Hillary Clinton said “stop-and-frisk” has proven to be ineffective. They also backed up Holt’s correction. In 2013, a federal judge ruled the stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional.
Day-after assessments continue today to determine the winner and loser from the Presidential debate. According to one poll released overnight, Hillary Clinton won decisively. The CNN/ORC snap poll gave her 62 percent support, compared to 27-percent for Trump. But an unscientific poll on Time’s website gives Trump the victory, as do online polls on the Drudge Report, and on CNBC’s website Twitter declared the Hofstra event the most tweeted debate in history.
Oddly though one thing that’s being tweeted and discussed on various social media platforms is Donald Trump’s sniffles during the presidential debate. They’re getting plenty of attention, so much so, that he denied that he had them while making the rounds of the media on the Tuesday morning news programs. He instead blamed a bad microphone.
In Sports…
Pacers’ training camp opens up today. The first pre-season game will be on Tuesday when they visit New Orleans to take on the Pelicans. Game time is 8 p.m. Eastern.
Indianapolis Weather…
Plenty of sunshine on a day that will really feel like Fall. Today’s High: 73 degrees.
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