May 25, 2013
IBJ StaffA former secretary in the Pike Township trustee’s office could face criminal charges after an internal investigation
and state audit found that she used a township credit card to fill up her own gas tank.
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April 6, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinIBJ SPECIAL REPORT: Center Township lowered its bank balance in 2012, to $6.7 million, but the biggest checks Trustee Eugene
Akers wrote weren't for emergency needs like food or shelter, the township’s main mission.
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April 6, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinHeading into the 2008 recession, Center Township sat on $10.5 million in cash, but sky-high unemployment and rising poverty
over the next four years failed to drain those funds, and the disconnect persists in several area townships.
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November 4, 2012
Associated PressA state lawmaker is taking issue with a group that backs a new "hybrid city" government in an Indianapolis suburb
and says she never endorsed the plan.
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October 17, 2012
Cory SchoutenA group of Fishers residents is crying foul over questions on the November ballot that will determine whether Fishers remains
a town, becomes a "reorganized" city with a council and city manager, or a traditional city with an elected mayor.
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September 8, 2012
IBJ StaffProperty tax isn't part of the equation, which irritates some Decatur Township residents.
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December 10, 2011
Francesca JaroszRepublican leaders in the General Assembly who have backed local government reform will trade ambitious proposals they’ve
pursued in years past for more moderate—and widely accepted—ideas in the next legislative session.
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September 22, 2011
The Center Township Board on Wednesday approved a plan to move the township's small claims court from the City-County Building
to the Julia M. Carson Government Center on Fall Creek Parkway despite a judge's objections.
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April 23, 2011
IBJ StaffWith property tax caps putting the squeeze on budgets, it’s foolhardy for townships to be sitting on millions that could
be funding needed services.
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April 16, 2011
Francesca JaroszWith two weeks left in the legislative session, only two statewide local-government-reform bills remain. Both fail to accomplish
reformers’ key aim: removing layers of township government they say have outlived their use.
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January 16, 2011
Associated PressNew investigations reported in Indiana newspapers say there are widespread patterns of inefficiency in the government of the
state's 1,008 townships.
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October 23, 2010
IBJ StaffIndiana lawmakers are gearing up for another legislative session, and township government reform will return to the agenda.
We hope proponents can finally hit a home run.
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October 23, 2010
Francesca JaroszA push to eliminate township government will return to the Statehouse next year—this time with a better shot at success.
Township reforms, which have been vigorously debated but never passed, have been touted as a way to make government more cost-effective.
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February 25, 2010
Associated PressThe bill now likely will go to a House-Senate conference committee to try to resolve the House-passed and Senate-approved
versions of the bill.
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February 19, 2010
Mickey MaurerIn Indiana, one institution rife with nepotism and political favoritism stubbornly persists:
township government and, more particularly, its delivery of emergency poor relief.
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January 29, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Republican-controlled Senate voted 29-19 Thursday for a bill that would eliminate township boards and transfer their duties
to the county level starting in 2013. It now moves to the Democrat-led House for consideration.
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January 14, 2010
Associated PressThe proposal would allow voters to decide in November whether their township governments should be eliminated and their duties
transferred to the county level.
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January 2, 2010
IBJ StaffFormer YMCA branch at 860 W. 10th St. would be razed to make way for retail and housing.
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December 23, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe Center Township Advisory Board has picked Buckingham Cos. to redevelop a 2-acre property it owns
at 860 W. 10th St. near the IUPUI campus.
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December 19, 2009
Ed FeigenbaumAbout the only certainty for the upcoming legislative session is that it will be over in March.
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November 17, 2009
A Lawrence Township trustee is proposing to merge the township’s fire department with the Indianapolis Fire Department,
in an attempt to further reduce its operating deficit.
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November 10, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Town of Bargersville won a legal dispute Monday that will allow it to annex 739 parcels within three miles of Greenwood's
city limits and become the exclusive sewer-service provider in the area.
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September 19, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe new city would count more than 80,000 residents. In terms of population, it would zoom past Fishers and Carmel to rank
sixth or seventh in the state.
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March 23, 2009
Morton MarcusDifficult economic conditions have been faced before and we have both the tools and will to overcome our problems.
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March 16, 2009
Township officials provide many services for the community, molded by back-yard input, which enhances quality of life.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.