Indiana tax collections for February down $86 million
Tax collections for February fell $86 million below a revised December forecast. Revenue is down $166 million in the first
three months since that forecast.
Tax collections for February fell $86 million below a revised December forecast. Revenue is down $166 million in the first
three months since that forecast.
Lawmakers are close to a compromise on a work-site guns bill, but remain farther apart on several other issues.
The Indiana Supreme Court is once again taking up the fate of a state law requiring government-issued photo identification
for voters. The justices were scheduled to hear arguments Thursday morning from both sides of the case.
The buzz as the days ran out suggested that nothing on the agenda was “must-pass” legislation, leaving Democrats
and Republicans, the House and the Senate, and the governor and the General Assembly with little leverage to exert.
Gov. Mitch Daniels should step through the door he cracked open last month and throw
his hat in the ring. Voters would benefit from a new voice.
Inflation causes lenders to raise interest rates. Businesses slow their borrowing, produce less and require fewer workers. Within a year or so, inflation becomes everyoneâ??s problem.
Lawmakers hoped to adjourn by midnight, days before a March 14 statutory deadline for finishing business, but are still bogged
down on several issues.
An observer says Hoosiers are really honked at incumbents. Except for Daniels.
The Republican-controlled Indiana Senate kept working Friday while House Speaker Patrick Bauer adjourned his Democrat-led
chamber until Wednesday.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Indianapolis has been without a presidentially appointed U.S. attorney for more than two years.
Joe Hogsett, a former secretary of state, is likely the frontrunner.
Lawmakers plan to hold House-Senate conference committee meetings Monday on at least two of the major issues that remain unresolved,
including a proposed delay in unemployment insurance tax increases.
Negotiations on some major issues resumed in the Indiana General Assembly on Monday after a meltdown occurred last week.
The plan approved by the Republican-controlled Senate would transfer the duties of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
board to the State Department of Health.
The full Indiana House returned to the Statehouse after a five-day break, but partisan differences remained over an unemployment
insurance tax bill.
Sticking points include a bill that would delay an unemployment insurance tax increase and provide tax breaks and incentives to create jobs.
OK, I admit that I’m still wincing about last week’s column about a peaceful, easy feeling in the General Assembly
as it approached the leadership-targeted early-adjournment date.
Indiana banks soon might have to pay the state as much as $300 million in new fees for deposit insurance at a time the industry
is experiencing its deepest woes in decades.
Records show Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi directed lucrative work for the Prosecutor’s Office to his friend, business
partner and political contributor John Bales.
The union for mechanics at Frontier Airlines is going to court over Republic Airways Holdings Inc.’s plans to shift their
work to Milwaukee.