A proposal that would let Marion County residents vote for an income-tax increase to help fund expanded mass transit passed a City County Council committee Tuesday night.
Hamilton Southeastern Schools and Noblesville Schools are proposing tax-raising referendums on the ballots next week. There’s concern that hotly contested primary races will bring naysayers to the polls.
After years with little construction activity at City Center in Carmel, four projects are expected to break ground this year that will bring more parking, housing and retail to the city’s core.
Boone County had an estimated population increase of 2.5 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau. It was the only Indiana county to make the top 100 list.
For the fifth consecutive year, Hamilton County has been shut out of federal tax credits for affordable housing projects, while nearby counties have had success in the competitive program.
Industry experts point to a host of factors for the increasing shortage but say it’s mostly driven by the state’s property tax caps coupled with rising home-building fees charged by municipalities.
A new effort will be coming to increase pay for Indiana State Police troopers after a study confirmed their salaries trail those of officers in some neighboring states and local police departments.
Cities and counties are set to receive millions of dollars for their road and street projects, but elected officials must decide whether to raise local vehicle taxes to keep the dollars flowing.
As part of a deal for Riverview Health to build an outpatient facility on prime commercial property at U.S. 31 and State Road 32 in Westfield, the hospital will make payments to the school district and city as a way to make up for its tax-exempt status.
Westfield resident Scott Willis says it’s not an ideal time for him to be running for an Indiana Senate seat. But after he spent time in the fall canvassing the 20th district, he decided he couldn’t keep waiting to see if six-term Republican Sen. Luke Kenley would retire.
Kenley, a former grocery store owner who was first elected in 1992, said he is running for office again because he wants to work on a long-term funding solution for shoring up Indiana’s roads and infrastructure.
Jim Streitelmeier, the pastor of Neighborhood Fellowship, has a specific year when he thinks Indianapolis’ social problems really took off:1973. That’s when Indianapolis Public Schools began busing black students to predominantly white schools in order to, at long last, integrate them. And it’s also the year Indiana passed a no-fault divorce law.
Policymakers on both the left and right have long felt hamstrung when it comes to addressing the problems that decades of social science research have shown hurt the economic prospects, not only of those in the midst of them, but everyone else in the community.
Each year children spend growing up in the Indianapolis area causes them to fall further and further behind their peers nationally in future earnings potential.
The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority picked 18 recipients to get $14.3 million in highly competitive low-income housing tax credits. Two Indianapolis-area projects were awarded funding out of 54 applications.
Garth Brazelton, former director of the state agency’s operations and business systems, has joined KSM Location Advisors as its chief operating officer.
