Indiana tax amnesty collections total more than $188 million
The amount was more than double the $90 million anticipated by the General Assembly and represented a third of amnesty-eligible liabilities.
The amount was more than double the $90 million anticipated by the General Assembly and represented a third of amnesty-eligible liabilities.
The modern reality is that Indiana continues to lead the nation in the percentage of our workforce employed in manufacturing. And the level of employment in such jobs has risen continually since the Great Recession began.
Indiana economists and finance experts have mixed reviews about how much of what Pence has touted on the campaign trail should be credited to him.
More Hoosiers are working than ever. Hoosier employers have added nearly 150,000 jobs since 2013, while Indiana’s unemployment rate has plummeted from more than 8 percent to 4.8 percent.
The Republican’s pick to replace Mike Pence on the ballot should take a page from Mitch Daniels’ playbook.
The Republicans should pick a candidate for governor who is open to new ideas about transportation funding, the environment and a host of other key issues.
Last month, economist Michael Hicks and the Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research released a study that is primarily focused on local economic development efforts. Yet several reports on the study, including IBJ’s “Ball State study: State too focused on landing ‘footloose’ jobs,” are clearly misguided. In the study, Hicks notes “Indiana is […]
The funding plan draws down the state's $2 billion budget reserve and also gives about $580 million to city and county governments for road projects.
Here’s a summary of the outcome of major legislation in the 2016 General Assembly.
An 11th-hour deal struck before the end of Indiana's yearly legislative session will give Gov. Mike Pence just a fraction of the $1 billion he proposed spending to make state highway improvements.
GOP leaders said Wednesday that the deal will be a two-year agreement expected to pump about $1 billion into highway and road spending while allowing local governments to implement their own vehicle registration taxes.
Too many Indiana roads and bridges are in disrepair thanks to the Legislature’s reluctance in recent years to hammer out a long-term road-funding plan.
Indiana House Republicans are tying Gov. Mike Pence’s extra Regional Cities funding to the bill, along with a 13th check for pensioners.
Planners thought most of the $53.5 million earmarked for projects would come from leasing excess space on the state’s 310 cellphone towers. But the Legislative Services Agency estimates those leases will bring $10 million to $12 million over the next 10 years.
The city of Muncie has released details of what it wants developers to build as part of a $48 million plan to develop its riverfront.
The first phase of the $198 million Red Line is slated to run from just north of Broad Ripple to the University of Indianapolis.
The 2016 Indiana bicentennial can serve both as party and as a springboard for thinking about our future. The state’s bicentennial commission has laid plans that both bolster Indiana’s statewide opportunities and promote local initiatives.
Democratic candidate for governor John Gregg took aim at Gov. Mike Pence in a speech Thursday after months of keeping a low profile.
Young, talented people are looking for quality of life, and will choose a community with a rich lifestyle over a good job elsewhere. Indiana has seen stagnating population growth at least in part as a result of our failure to keep up with this trend.
While leaders for the GOP majorities in both chambers discussed an array of policy priorities, they had much less to say about the debate over adding discrimination protections for lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender people to state law.