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NOTIONS: Will House protect Hoosier families?

January 23, 2006

Last fall, the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce invited members to an event called “Pancakes and Politics.” The invitation said that Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma would preview the upcoming legislative session. Ever curious, I e- mailed the Chamber and said I’d attend. When I arrived, I was puzzled. There were, indeed, pancakes. Bosma was working the crowd. But instead of signaling a legislative overview, the PowerPoint slide on the screen said we’d be hearing about the accomplishments and goals…

IPOs take minor dip in 2005: Analysts stay optimistic; 3 Indiana companies set to go public in early ’06

January 30, 2006

Three Indiana companies took the plunge to go public last year, two less than the number that did so in 2004. The state’s slight dip in initial public offerings mirrors the slump in activity nationally. But Indiana appears to be off to a fast start for 2006. Three other Hoosier companies filed to go public late last year, but had yet to complete their IPOs by year’s end. Overall, the number of companies that went public on the major U.S….

NOTIONS: Will House protect Hoosier families?

January 30, 2006

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Lawmakers will get serious when the dancing ends

January 30, 2006

Indianapolis may still be waiting for its first significant snowfall of 2006, but the legislative session zips along at breakneck speed. Jan. 23-27 marks the final week in which committees may consider legislation in their respective chambers of origin. We’ve warned you this session would consider matters of substance despite its short fuse-lawmakers will adjourn no later than March 14. So how do things shape up so far? If someone from another planet were to peer in underneath the Statehouse…

Mr. Buick makes bid to dethrone Carson: Automobile dealer Dickerson takes grass-roots approach

February 6, 2006

Eric Dickerson held his hands out, palms facing each other, as if playing an accordion. He moved them closer to illustrate the narrowing margin of victory by which 7th District congresswoman Julia Carson has won re-election since 2000. A couple of tables away in the Starbucks near Broad Ripple, the founder of a private Indianapolis company sat listening to the political polka. Suddenly, he was up and talking to Dickerson, who wants to be Carson’s Republican challenger. “I want to…

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ: Indy Works, part deux (the sequel)

February 6, 2006

As someone who enjoys a good film, I always worry when Hollywood tries to produce a sequel. The producers figure they raked in millions on an idea, so they run it again and again until it’s run into the ground. Mayor Bart Peterson is hoping to pass Indianapolis Works ’06 through the Indiana General Assembly this session. How successful will this sequel be? Let’s look at all the players and find out. Last session, GOP lawmakers gave the mayor police…

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Major Moves displays short-session political mastery

February 6, 2006

A combination of arm-twisting, dealmaking and the sheer brute force of the Office of the Governor came together the last week of January in a way Hoosiers seldom see. All the pressure was enough to keep Republican House members in line at just the right time in the legislative process to keep the governor’s Major Moves transportation plan moving. There was a lot of deep exhaling at week’s end, some from those in the Governor’s Office doing the heavy lifting…

Want-ad battle brewing: Newspapers feel threatened by state’s deal with Monster

February 13, 2006

A four-year, $2.8 million deal between the DWD and McLean, Va.-based Monster Government Solutions to develop and maintain an online job search and recruitment system is coming under heavy fire, with newspaper operators saying a system funded by their own tax dollars will harm their business. DWD officials said the deal is designed to lower unemployment and boost Indiana’s economy. “We think this deal is going to result in a brain gain, keeping people employed and keeping our college graduates…

TAWN PARENT Commentary: A law to help us reclaim summer

February 13, 2006

As I begin this column, snow is falling. But if I close my eyes I can already feel the heat of next August. I can also feel the disappointment that another summer has been cut prematurely short by the absurdly early start to the school year. So I’m cheering the success in the General Assembly of legislation that would move the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress back to the spring. The House of Representatives on Feb. 2 approved a…

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Broad support but long odds for property tax reform

February 13, 2006

The rubber is starting to meet the road in the Indiana General Assembly as the calendar turns past the midway point, and House bills move to the Senate (and vice versa, although that half of the equation is decidedly less intriguing). Some senators are not happy with the House’s sending them at least one key measure, House Bill 1001, that is less a work in progress than a utopian statement of sorts about future tax policy. While lawmakers last year…

VIEWPOINT: State’s STIF-necked response shortsighted

February 20, 2006

Chances are, most of you have never heard of the acronym “STIF.” The four letters stand for sales tax increment financing. Indiana has created so-called STIF districts around the state to stimulate economic development, or so we thought. STIF districts work simply: They allow a portion of sales taxes generated at new retail projects to be redirected to pay the cost of public improvements related to the projects, things like curbs and sidewalks, streets, sewers, other utilities, drainage and landscaping….

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Senate doesn’t hesitate to check House, governor

February 27, 2006

Why do we have a bicameral legislature, with four-year terms for senators and two-year terms for House members? Because, as George Washington reputedly told Thomas Jefferson, the framers created the Senate to “cool” House legislation, just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea. We’ve just seen evidence of this, and also of another important phenomenon, one that reminds us of just how separate our branches of government truly are. We recently mentioned how the “adults” in the Senate…

VIEWPOINT: Why don’t Republicans like Indy Works?

February 27, 2006

As you remember from the legend, Rip Van Winkle wandered off one day into the Catskill Mountains and ended up sleeping under a tree for 20 years. When he wandered back into his village, unaware that he’d slept so long, Van Winkle found things back home had changed in dramatic ways. You might have forgotten this detail from the story: Rip reappeared in his New England town on Election Day, shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War. When he…

CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary: Partisanship: The nemesis of progress

March 6, 2006

Like Mayor Bart Peterson’s Indianapolis Works legislation last year, Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Major Moves bill has become the political football of this legislative season. The rhetoric and posturing associated with the highway funding bill has been as partisan and irrational as it comes. It’s as if the Democrats who oppose Major Moves are trying to compensate for their party’s inability to produce a solution to our state’s highways needs during the previous 16 years of Democratic leadership under governors Bayh,…

Insurers: Session a ‘dog’: Industry’s favored bills bark up the wrong tree

March 6, 2006

The state’s insurance industry could use coverage for the lumps it has taken this legislative session. The three main issues of interest for the Insurance Institute of Indiana, the sector’s lobbying arm, all flamed out early. The disappointing performance prompted Marty Wood, the organization’s director of public affairs, to proclaim it a near failure. “I would give this session for insurers a ‘D’ as in dog. Dog is probably pretty accurate, too,” Wood said. “Had we had this kind of…

BULLS & BEARS: Stop-loss orders might cost you in long run

March 20, 2006

Every fortnight, my firm sends out a newsletter to clients, prospects and friends. In it, we opine on the stock market, the economy, pop culture and politics. If you read this column, you have a general idea of the tone of the letters. This week, we got “fan mail” from neither a client nor a friend, but from a gentleman we had presented our services to about 18 months ago. He started his letter stating he found our writings “informative,…

Short session long on action: Led by Major Moves, telecom successes, biz interests fared well in 2006 General Assembly

March 20, 2006

In less than three months, the Indiana General Assembly approved a pair of blockbuster economic-development measures designed to dramatically upgrade the state’s infrastructure. With the passage of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Major Moves initiative, Indiana will lease the Indiana Toll Road to an Australian-Spanish consortium for 75 years. It will use the upfront, $3.9 billion payment to build roads. Meanwhile, the approval of telecom deregulation sets the stage for more local phone, cable and Internet competition. Daniels, a Republican, argued that…

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Low poll numbers don’t seem to slow Daniels’ agenda

March 20, 2006

For a guy whose approval level is about as low as-well-the president’s, and who was pushing a program about as popular as turning over supervision of vital national assets to a foreign entity (see the parallels yet?), Gov. Mitch Daniels sure enjoyed some major success this legislative session. He just signed a wide-ranging telecommunications deregulation measure he had strongly advocated, placing Indiana at the cusp of reform in the field, after several years of the Legislature’s refusing to move off…

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Short but historic session produces election plot lines

March 27, 2006

You can go home now (unless you live in Perry Township) and rest somewhat assured that the governor and state lawmakers won’t do anything untoward to you until, at the soonest, November. Yes, the 2006 short session of the Indiana General Assembly has run its course, and left the state with some key policy and economic legacies. Not the least of them, as we have discussed at length in this column, and has been covered elsewhere in these pages, are…

IDEM pollution fines fall: Violators assessed lowest amount since ’99, but Daniels administration speeds up process

March 27, 2006

Under Republican control for the first time in 16 years, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management in 2005 handed out $2.03 million in fines for pollution violations, the lowest annual assessment since at least 1999. The 2005 penalties were down nearly $600,000 from a year earlier, when the department was under the administration of Gov. Joe Kernan. But IDEM records show Gov. Mitch Daniels’ team had comparatively little patience for unresolved cases, in which the commission and alleged violators couldn’t…

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NOTIONS: Will House protect Hoosier families?

IPOs take minor dip in 2005: Analysts stay optimistic; 3 Indiana companies set to go public in early ’06

NOTIONS: Will House protect Hoosier families?

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Lawmakers will get serious when the dancing ends

Mr. Buick makes bid to dethrone Carson: Automobile dealer Dickerson takes grass-roots approach

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ: Indy Works, part deux (the sequel)

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Major Moves displays short-session political mastery

Want-ad battle brewing: Newspapers feel threatened by state’s deal with Monster

TAWN PARENT Commentary: A law to help us reclaim summer

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Broad support but long odds for property tax reform

VIEWPOINT: State’s STIF-necked response shortsighted

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Senate doesn’t hesitate to check House, governor

VIEWPOINT: Why don’t Republicans like Indy Works?

CHRIS KATTERJOHN Commentary: Partisanship: The nemesis of progress

Insurers: Session a ‘dog’: Industry’s favored bills bark up the wrong tree

BULLS & BEARS: Stop-loss orders might cost you in long run

Short session long on action: Led by Major Moves, telecom successes, biz interests fared well in 2006 General Assembly

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Low poll numbers don’t seem to slow Daniels’ agenda

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: Short but historic session produces election plot lines

IDEM pollution fines fall: Violators assessed lowest amount since ’99, but Daniels administration speeds up process