Legislation aimed at changing how Indiana Supreme Court justices are chosen hasn’t gotten enough support to make it out of committee for now, receiving a split vote from lawmakers today that means it won’t be going to the full House for consideration. The Government and Regulatory Reform Committee added to its agenda this morning House […]
Republican state lawmakers were never keen on House Democrats’ idea to take $500 million from a trust fund and spend the cash on local road projects. But the GOP-controlled Senate made the message clear yesterday as it approved a proposal to protect the fund by putting it into the Indiana constitution. Sen. Mike Delph (R-Carmel) […]
Retired people living on a fixed income have no way to raise extra money to pay for property taxes.
Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indiana House Speaker Patrick Bauer have more in common than they might think. Both are headstrong politicians who wield tremendous power. And both have a way with words, especially when they aren’t getting what they want. So it’s no surprise that the Republican governor and the Democratic speaker are once again […]
A new report scores Indiana’s state budget process as the second worst in the nation largely because the governor doesn’t have a line-item veto and there’s no requirement for a balanced budget. Indiana scored just 45 points out of a possible 100 and ranked ahead of only New Hampshire in the 2009 Index of State […]
The Indiana House has advanced a proposal that supporters say would accelerate limits on tax bills and provide $200 million in property-tax relief. But don’t count on seeing those savings. The proposal is unlikely to pass the more deliberative Senate, where a Republican leader said caps on property-tax bills must be gradually implemented as originally […]
The fight between House Republicans and Democrats over constitutional caps on property taxes has become kind of strange. The partisan positions for and against voting this year to put property-tax caps into the state constitution raise legitimate arguments for each side. It’s how the battle has played out that’s been bizarre. It has involved projectors, […]
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
Thousands of protesters – many first-timers – gathered on the Indiana Statehouse lawn yesterday to make it known they were fed up with overspending by the government. The word “enough” was everywhere – on signs handed out by organizers, spelled out in red, foam letters behind a country music band, on the homemade signs held […]
A federal bankruptcy judge approved the sale of most of Chrysler LLC’s assets to Italy’s Fiat, moving the American automaker a step closer to its goal of a quick exit from court protection. But a trio of Indiana state pension and construction funds filed an appeal, saying that the ruling sets aside the rights of […]
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of most of Chrysler LLC’s assets to Italy’s Fiat, moving the American automaker a step closer to its goal of a quick exit from court protection. But it didn’t take long for a trio of Indiana state pension and construction funds to file an appeal, saying that […]
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Chrysler heads back to bankruptcy court today to ask the judge overseeing its case to allow it to terminate the franchise agreements of 789 of its dealerships, despite the protests of many dealers who say the move could close their businesses for good. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez is expected […]
Chrysler heads back to bankruptcy court today to ask the judge overseeing its case to allow it to terminate the franchise agreements of 789 of its dealerships, despite the protests of many dealers who say the move could close their businesses for good. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez is expected to hear testimony from Chrysler LLC […]
Current and former employees of Bloomington-based International Outsourcing Services LLC are under assault by federal prosecutors
who charged they participated in a scheme to bilk some of the nation’s largest issuers of coupons out of more than $250 million.
Three Indiana state pension and construction funds are asking the Supreme Court to block Chrysler’s sale to Fiat so they can pursue an appeal in hopes of getting a better deal. Also filing emergency papers at the high court yesterday were lawyers representing consumer groups and individuals with product-related lawsuits. An appeals court in New […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Chrysler’s partnership with Italy’s Fiat, rejecting an appeal by a trio of Indiana pension and contruction funds, consumer groups and others to block the automaker’s sale. The sale of Chrysler LLC’s assets to Fiat Group SpA had been expected to close more than a week ago, […]
Kentucky’s horse-racing industry would get a stimulus package of its own under Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposal to allow video gambling in the state, with the bulk of the proceeds going to the tracks. The Kentucky Lottery Corp. would oversee video slot machines to be allowed exclusively at race tracks in the state under the plan […]
Italy’s Fiat is the new owner of the bulk of Chrysler’s assets, closing a deal today that saves the troubled U.S. automaker from liquidation and places a new company in the hands of Fiat’s CEO.The deal clears the way for a new, leaner Chrysler Group LLC to emerge from bankruptcy protection minus billions in debt, […]
The Indiana Court of Appeals yesterday rejected a challenge to a state law that eliminated most township assessor offices across the state. The court agreed with a Huntington County court decision that found state lawmakers had the legal right to eliminate the elected offices in midterm. Huntington Township Assessor Joan Stoffel had argued that the […]
